Raúl Castillo
Biography
Raúl Castillo is an American actor and playwright from McAllen, Texas, who studied theater and playwriting at Boston University and graduated in 1999. After moving to New York, he joined the LAByrinth Theater Company, first as a writer and later as a performer, and made his stage debut with that company in José Rivera's School of the Americas at the Public Theater in 2006. His early film work included Amexicano and the independent film Cold Weather (2010), and he went on to appear in Bless Me, Ultima (2012) and We the Animals (2018), the latter earning him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best supporting male. On television he played Richie Donado Ventura on HBO's Looking and reprised it in the finale film Looking: The Movie (2016). His plays include Border Stories, and he has been associated with the Atlantic Theater Company.
49years old
Turns 50 on August 30in 292 days
- Born McAllen
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Raúl Castillo Jr.
Movie Career
- Films
- 22
- Career span
- 17 years2008 to 2025
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First role
After college, Castillo played the lead in a 2000 production of Santos & Santos at the Nushank Theater Collective in Austin, Texas, and that role encouraged him to identify as an actor.
Early training
Castillo went to Boston University College of Fine Arts after high school, where he studied playwriting as an undergraduate. He kept acting there and majored in theater.
First role
Castillo became a writer with the LAByrinth Theater Company soon after he moved to New York. In 2006, he made his on-stage acting debut there in José Rivera's play School of the Americas, staged at New York's Public Theater.
Big break
Castillo worked with Michael Lannan on the 2011 short film Lorimer, playing the character Richie. Lannan based the pilot episode of Looking on that short film.
Behind the award
In 2014, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers gave Castillo the Lupe Award for his breakout performance in Looking. He is the second actor to receive the Lupe Award since it was created.
Raúl Castillo movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Jeremiah Zagar directed two of these films. Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Joaquín Cosio's page
Ana de la Reguera's page
Terry Holland2 films together, 2018 to 2024
Terry Holland's page
Jeremiah ZagarDirector, 2 films, 2018 to 2022
All films by Jeremiah Zagar
Box office
What Raúl Castillo's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$449 million
7 of the 22 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 22 films: 7 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 5 never in cinemas; 3 streaming, short cinema run; 5 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 5Never in cinemas
- 3Streaming, short cinema run
- 5Figure not found
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$191M42.5% of the total
- 2$138M30.8% of the total
- 3$104M23.2% of the total
- 4$14M3.2% of the total
- 5$1.6M0.3% of the total
- 6$271K0.1% of the total
- 7$39K0.0% of the total
