Antonio Muñoz (actor)

Antonio Muñoz
Born (1966-01-02) January 2, 1966
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Occupation Actor
Years active 2002–present

Antonio Muñoz (born Jose Rafael Antonio Muñoz, January 2, 1966, in Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan actor and three times national Motocross champion.

He started racing motor cross when he was eleven. During his third year of racing, he suffered a major accident, leaving him with major Facial trauma and permanent loss of taste and smell called Anosmia

Muñoz competed for twenty years as a motor-cross racer and held three national titles.

In 2002, he decided to pursue a career in acting, although he had no previous experience and within days he became a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Antonio had his first break only six months after he started his acting pursuits. Desmond Gumbs, a director on Straight Out (2003) (his first film) took a great risk on Antonio's raw talent and cast him in a major plot-driver role.

Since then he has worked on the top-rated shows, as well as in the feature films, The Rundown, Spanglish (film) with Adam Sandler and London (2005 American film)

He has been in television and editorial commercials nationwide including Bank of America, Nissan Altima and Infinity Insurance.

Then try to pursue an acting career in the Hispanic-Latin market and he quickly landed a feature role in the Telemundo production, El Rostro de Analia as one of the hitman for Gabriel Porras as Ricky Montana.

In June 2010 Antonio is working in Petén with Dr Richard D. Hansen, providing all the logistic and helicopters for the exploration of the biggest Mayan Ruins in the world (El Mirador).

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003Nip/TuckWaiterEpisode "#1"
2003DragnetInterpreterEpisode: "#2 season #2"
2005Karen SiscoLover GuyEpisode "#9"
2005WantedFather OlivieraEpisode "#11"
2007SecretosHumbertoEpisode "#12"
2008Camino a la JusticiaMiguel AngelEpisode "#32"
2009El Rostro de AnalíaHitmanEpisode "#146"

Film

YearTitleRole
2003Straight OutGilbert
2003The RundownKontiki Rebel
2004"Spanglish (film)"Mexican at Family dinner
2005London (2005 American film)Killer in a Dream

References

    (Antonio Official Facebook page)

    Movie Data Base Info IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1882025/

    "News Paper article" https://web.archive.org/web/20110708122215/http://www.carreteranews.com/ediciones_pdf/edicion40.pdf


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