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Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.
Raúl Eduardo Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is an American actor. Considered one of Broadway's most prominent leading men since the 2000s, he is best known for his Tony Award-nominated performance as Bobby in the 2006 Broadway revival of Company and for his television role as New York Assistant District Attorney (ADA) Rafael Barba in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where he had a recurring…
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- Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best — Self2023
- A Murder at the End of the World — David Alvarez2023
- Glimpse — Tony2022
- Candy — Don Crowder2022
- Bring Me to Light — Performer2021
- Law & Order: Organized Crime — Rafael Barba2021
- Dopesick — Paul Mendelson2021
- The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU — Self2020
- Dead Talk Live — Self - Guest2020
- Stars in the House — Self2020
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- Male
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- United States
- Active from
- 1970-10-24
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Raúl E. Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is an American stage actor. Born in Wilmington, Delaware to Cuban American parents and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Esparza first drew attention with his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show, which won him the Theatre World Award. Additional Broadway credits include Cabaret (2001) <a
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Raúl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wilmington
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- New York University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Academic degree
- bachelor's degree
- Hair colour
- brown hair
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.raulesparza.com
- Image
- Raúl Esparza at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Miami
- Voice type
- tenor
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- writing language
- Spanish
- date of birth
- 1970-10-24
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- social media followers
- 128194
- Commons category
- Raúl Esparza
- start of work period
- 1993-00-00
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
- birth name
- Raúl Eduardo Esparza
- name in native language
- Raúl Esparza
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