Mel Rodriguez

Mel Rodriguez is an American actor and comedian who grew up in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood and was steered toward acting at 17 by a high school teacher, making his debut in a play called The Inner Circle. He trained at the conservatory at SUNY Purchase and worked largely in New York theater before his first screen role, a 1999 episode of Law & Order. After his first feature, the 1999 comedy Wirey Spindell, he broke through in 2002 as Frank on George Lopez. He is best known for playing Nurse Patsy de la Serda on Getting On, Todd Rodriguez on The Last Man on Earth, and Ernie Gomes on On Becoming a God in Central Florida, and he has also appeared as Marco Pasternak on Better Call Saul and Officer Morales in Panic Room (2002). In 2025 he played Bruce Geller in The Residence.