Luis Bordonada

Luis Bordonada is an American actor who began his career after serving in the U.S. Army. He enlisted after high school and served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, then studied theater under Prof. Hector Serrano, founder of both Viva El Paso and the Shakespeare on The Rocks Theater Festival. His film break came with the Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli, and in the same year he was cast as the lead in the independent film Ilegales (Illegal), earning a Best Actor Award at Chicago's Naperville Independent Film Festival. He went on to recurring roles on FX's The Bridge, AMC's Better Call Saul and A&E's Longmire, and played Nelson Herrera on the Starz series Vida. His later credits include Charlie Burroughs in SGT Will Gardner (2019) and a lead in Ryan Lacen's debut feature All The World is Sleeping (2021), with Melissa Barrera, Jackie Cruz and Jorge Garcia.