Reynaldo Pacheco

Reynaldo Pacheco is a Bolivian actor and composer who began performing in a theater group at his school in La Paz at 13 and later performed with the La Paz Philharmonic. He abandoned business studies to train as an actor, earning a degree in French, theater and political sciences at Wabash College, then studying film in France and at the University of Southern California, graduating in 2009 and starting work in Los Angeles. His early screen work included leading roles in Bolivian films, among them a biopic of singer-songwriter Nilo Soruco, and supporting parts in Beginners (2010) and The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez (2012). In Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) he took a Hollywood role that earned him an Imagen Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. He also appeared in Without Men alongside Eva Longoria and Kate del Castillo, and founded the Hollywood Academy of Performing Arts.