![]() ![]() Wilson Cruz as an activistĬruz advocates on behalf of LGBT youth, especially youth of color. He is 5 feet and 9 inches tall and weighs around 75Kg. Body MeasurementsĬruz has black hair with dark brown eyes. He has 76K followers on his Instagram and charges around $1000 per post. Most of his earnings come from his acting. The 45-year-old actor’s net worth is estimated to be $2 million US. Awards and AchievementsĬruz was awarded the 1997 Drama Logue Award for Performance and the 1998 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for “Rent” for Featured Actor in a Musical for “Rent” in a Center Theatre Group production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California. ![]() He plays the openly gay best friend of a promiscuous woman who tries to find out who got her pregnant so that she can get married. He also appeared/starred in the 2009 movie The People I’ve Slept With. In 1996, he appeared with David Arquette as Mikey in Johns, about the day-to-day struggles of male prostitutes.Ĭruz’s other appearance in movies includes Joyride (1996), All Over Me(1997), Supernova (2000), Party Monster (2003), Margaret Cho’s Bam Bam and Celeste(2005), Coffee Date (2007), and He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) the television film The Perfect Pitch (2002).Ĭruz starred as Adrian in the film The Ode (2007), based on the novel Ode to Lata by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. In 1995, Cruz went on to play J.Edgar Hoover’s servant Joaquin in Oliver Stone‘s film Nixon. He is credited for his guest appearances on the series Sister, Sister, and Ally McBeal, Great Scott!, The West Wing, ER, Noah’s Arc and Grey’s Anatomy, The Closer, Monk, NCIS, Pushing Daisies, Single Ladies, The Finder, Shameless to name a few, and 13 Reasons Why to name a few. He also had a recurring role as Rafael de la Cruz in the series, Raising the Bar. ![]() In 2000, he played Victor in the final season of Party of Five. In 1996, he played a small role in the television movie On Seventh Avenue. This made Cruz the first openly gay actor to play an openly gay character in a leading role in an American television series. Wilson Cruz: Career in TV ShowsĬruz who was open about his sexuality from the beginning of his career was cast as Enrique “Rickie” Vasquez, a troubled, gay teen, in the short-lived, critically acclaimed cult classic TV series My So-Called Life. Then he moved to Hollywood seeking an acting career. His father, however, threw him out of the house, and Cruz spent the next few months living in his car and at the homes of friends. His mother was initially hurt and shocked but eventually accepted the news. Revealed his sexuality to his parentsĪt age 19, Cruz came out to his parents as gay, first to his mother and then to his father. He then attended California State University at San Bernardino, where he was pursuing a double major in theater. That is Eleanor’s son? I had no idea.” He said he knew that she “had married a man named Cruz” but little else and had not made the connection to the presidential candidate.At the age of 10, he along with his parents moved to Rialto, California, where he attended Eisenhower High School and graduated in 1991. “I’ll be darned,” said Wilson, who speaks in a soft tone with traces of his Texas origins. He didn’t realize that his first wife, Eleanor, whose maiden name is Darragh, had such a well-known son, whose citizenship is at issue in the presidential campaign, or that “Wilson” is on the birth certificate. Wilson, who has never previously spoken about his past with the news media, told McClatchy in a telephone interview from London that he did not realize he was connected to the U.S. The Fort Worth native and long-time resident of London, Wilson is now an unwitting player in the drama that surrounds Cruz’s family. On Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth certificate, his mother is listed as Eleanor Darragh Wilson, using the last name of her first husband, Alan Wilson. ![]()
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