Michael Peña's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Eastbound & Down Sebastian C… Men, Women & Dogs Miguel

Main Movie Roles 2011 - Battle: Los Angeles 2009 - Observe and Report 2008 - The Lucky Ones 2007 - Shooter 2007 - Lions for Lambs 2006 - Babel 2006 - World Trade Center 2006 - Fifty Pills 2005 - Little Athens 2004 - The Calcium Kid 2004 - Crash 2004 - Million Dollar Baby 2003 - The United States Of Leland 2003 - Love Object 2001 - Buffalo Soldiers 2000 - Gone in Sixty Seconds 1996 - My Fellow Americans

BIOGRAPHY:

Peña was raised in Chicago. After graduating from high school, he went to an open casting call for the Peter Bogdanovich feature To Sir, with Love II (1996) (TV), and to his surprise, beat out hundreds of other young men for a role. After relocating to Los Angeles Peña quickly booked a succession of roles in features including Star Maps, My Fellow Americans (1996) (opposite Jack Lemmon (I) and James Garner), La Cucaracha (1998) (winner of the Best Picture in the Austin Film Festival), Bellyfruit (1999), and the Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer feature Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000).

Michael Peña currently resides in Los Angeles where he plays bass guitar with his band, plays golf and boxes for relaxation.


TRIVIA:

• Has a brother.
• Used to skateboard at the time he was in high school at Chicago.
• Is Mexican-American.
• Michael welcomed his first child, a boy named Roman, with his wife 'Brie Shaffer' in September 2008.
• One of his first jobs was working in a bank.