Wilson jermaine heredia biography
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Wilson Jermaine Heredia
American actor
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| Born | (1971-12-02) December 2, 1971 (age 53) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
Wilson Jermaine Heredia (born December 2, 1971) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Angel Dumott Schunard in the Broadway musical Rent, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor Featured in a Musical in 1996.[1] The same year, he also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical.[2] Heredia also originated the role at London's Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End theatre district and in the 2005 film adaptation.
Life and career
[edit]Heredia was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic – a seamstress mother and a building superintendent father.[3][4] He has appeared in several films, including his portrayal of Cha-Cha, the drag queen, in 1999's Flawless, where he worked opposite former Rent castmate Daphne Rubin-Vega. The film also stars Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Heredia also appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Nocturne".
Along with five other principal members of the original Broadw
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Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Birth Date
December 2, 1971
RENT Credits[]
Broadway - 04/29/96 - 11/30/97 - Angel Dumott Schunard
Broadway - 08/06/1999 - 02/2002 - Angel Dumott Schunard
Film - 2005 - Angel Dumott Schunard
Videos[]
Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Today 4 U, 1999
Angel Dumott Schunard, Today 4 U, Broadway 1999
Trivia[]
- He appeared 1999's Flawless, where he worked opposite former RENT cast mate Daphne Rubin-Vega.
- Heredia stated that he enjoys the transformation process involved in assuming the persona of the cross-dressing Angel, but dislikes having makeup on his face and found the high heels he had to wear as part of his costume extremely painful.
- He enjoys filming because the close up shots allow him to "cut loose" and go wild a lot more than the stage allows.
- Heredia says he enjoyed the blackly comedic parody of Rent in the film Team America: World Police, which features a fictional Broadway musical called Lease.
- In the
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