Actor of The Week: Michael Peña

Michael Anthony Peña (/ pɛnjə/; Spanyol: [ˈpeɲa]; lahir 13 Januari 1976) adalah seorang aktor Amerika. Dia telah membintangi banyak film, termasuk Crash (2004), World Trade Center (2006), Shooter (2007), Observe and Report (2009), Tower Heist (2011), Battle: Los Angeles (2011), End of Watch (2012), Gangster Squad (2013), American Hustle (2013), Fury (2014), Frontera (2014), The Martian (2015), Collateral Beauty (2016), CHiPs (2017), My Little Pony: The Movie (2017 ), Ant-Man (2015) dan sekuelnya Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), 12 Strong (2018), Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019), Fantasy Island (2020 ), dan Tom & Jerry (2021). Peña memiliki peran utama dalam Cesar Chavez (2014) dan memainkan agen DEA Kiki Camarena di musim pertama dari serial Netflix Narcos: Mexico (2018).

Dia dinominasikan untuk Penghargaan Roh Independen untuk Pria Pendukung Terbaik untuk penampilannya di End of Watch.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	My Fellow Americans	Ernesto
1997	Star Maps	Star Map Boy
1998	Boogie Boy	Drug Dealer
1998	La Cucaracha	Orderly
1999	Bellyfruit	Oscar
2000	Gone in 60 Seconds	Ignacio	Credited as Michael A. Peña
2001	Buffalo Soldiers	Garcia
2003	The United States of Leland	Guillermo
	Love Object	Ramirez
2004	The Calcium Kid	Jose Mendez
	Crash	Daniel	ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated – Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast
	Million Dollar Baby	Omar
2005	Little Athens	Carlos
	Sueño	Jimmy
2006	Fifty Pills	Eduardo
	Babel	John - Border Patrol
	World Trade Center	Will Jimeno	Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor - Motion Picture
2007	Shooter	Nick Memphis
	Lions for Lambs	Ernest
2008	The Lucky Ones	T.K. Poole
2009	Observe and Report	Dennis
	My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?	Detective Vargas
2010	Everything Must Go	Frank Garcia
2011	Battle: Los Angeles	Joe Rincon	Nominated – ALMA Award for Favorite Movie Actor
	The Lincoln Lawyer	Jesus Martinez
	The Good Doctor	Jimmy
	30 Minutes or Less	Chango
	Tower Heist	Enrique Dev'reaux
2012	End of Watch	Officer Zavala	Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Latino Actor
2013	Gangster Squad	Navidad Ramirez
	Turbo	Tito Lopez (voice)
	American Hustle	Paco Hernandez/Sheik Abdullah	New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Ensemble Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble
2014	Cesar Chavez	César Chávez	ALMA Award for Special Achievement in Film Imagen Award for Best Actor in Feature Film
	Frontera	Miguel
	Fury	Trini 'Gordo' Garcia
2015	Ant-Man	Luis
	The Vatican Tapes	Father Lozano
	Vacation	New Mexico Cop
	The Martian	Major Rick Martinez
	Hell and Back	Abigor (voice)
2016	War on Everyone	Bob Bolano
	Collateral Beauty	Simon Stone
2017	CHiPs	Frank "Ponch" Poncherello / FBI Agent Castillo	Also executive producer
	The Lego Ninjago Movie	Kai (voice)
	My Little Pony: The Movie	Grubber (voice)
	Zane's Stand Up Promo	Kai (voice)	Short film
2018	12 Strong	Sergeant First Class Sam Diller
	A Wrinkle in Time	Red
	Ant-Man and the Wasp	Luis
	Extinction	Peter
	Next Gen	Momo (voice)
	The Mule	Trevino
2019	Dora and the Lost City of Gold	Cole Marquez
	Jexi	Kai
2020	Fantasy Island	Mr. Julian Roarke
2021	Tom & Jerry	Terrance Mendoza
2022	Moonfall	Tom Lopez
	Secret Headquarters		Filming
2023	Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania	Luis	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Pacific Blue	Rabbit	Episode: "Bangers"
1997	Touched by an Angel	Reynaldo Estes	Episode: "At Risk"
1998	Homicide: Life on the Street	Luis Carrenza	2 episodes Credited as Michael Anthony Pena
1998	The Sentinel	Johnny	Episode: "Night Shift" Credited as Michael A. Pena
1998	7th Heaven	Roger	Episode: "Let's Talk About Sex" Credited as Michael A. Pena
1999	Tracey Takes On...	Busboy	Episode: "Scandal"
1999	Moesha	Alejandro	Episode: "Life Imitating Art"
1999	Profiler	Alex Lopez	Episode: "Spree of Love" Credited as Michael Anthony Peña
1999–2000	Felicity	Brian Burke	5 episodes
2000	The District	Sante	Episode: "The Real Terrorist"
2001	Roswell	Fly	2 episodes
2001	Men, Women & Dogs	Miguel	2 episodes
2002	American Family		2 episodes
2002	Andy Richter Controls the Universe	Patrick	Episode: "Wedding"
2003	The Twilight Zone	Noah	Episode: "Sunrise" Credited as Michael A. Peña
2003	ER	Police Officer	3 episodes
1997, 2004	NYPD Blue	Ferd Wilmer Lopez	2 episodes
2005	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Juanito Concha	Episode: "Snakes"
2005	The Shield	Detective Armando Renta	10 episodes
2006	Walkout	Sal Castro	Television film Black Reel Award for Network/Cable - Best Supporting Actor Imagen Award for Best Actor - Television Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor - Television Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie
2008	My Name Is Earl	Circus	Episode: "No Heads and a Duffle Bag"
2010	Eastbound & Down	Sebastián Cisneros	5 episodes
2011, 2013	American Dad!	Marguerite (voice)	2 episodes
2014	Chozen	Ricky (voice)	10 episodes
2014	Gracepoint	Mark Solano	10 episodes
2018	Narcos: Mexico	Kiki Camarena	Main cast; 10 episodes (Season 1)