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Nestor Carbonell is an American actor and director who portrayed Alex Romero on Bates Motel.


Biography

Early Life

Carbonell was born in New York City. He is of Cuban and Spanish descent. He was raised Catholic. His family moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where he attended The British School Caracas. Later on, he moved back to the United States, where he attended Deerfield Academy (with future Lost co-star Matthew Fox). He earned a B.A. in English at Harvard University in the late 1980s.

His father is a business executive and is active in the Cuban community. Former professional baseball player Rafael Palmeiro is his cousin. His great-grandfather, José Manuel Cortina y Garcia, was one of Cuba's most outstanding orators and diplomats.

Personal Life

Carbonell is married to actress Shannon Kenny. They originally met while both working as regulars on the 1995 television series Muscle. The couple has two children, Rafael (born 2002) and Marco (born 2005).

He is a practising Roman Catholic.

Carbonell's dark eyelashes have been the topic of discussion, but interviews with both Carbonell and the producers of Lost have made it clear they are not enhanced by any form of makeup. A short skit during the Lost panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2009 featured Carbonell allegedly applying eyeliner before throwing a Christian Bale-esque rant upon receiving the wrong color makeup from an assistant. In addition, in the Psych episode "Shawn 2.0", Shawn makes a comment about Nestor's character as having "impossibly dark eyelashes."

He is fluent in Spanish, a fact put to use in the sixth season episode of Lost, "Ab Aeterno", in which numerous scenes contain dialogue mostly or solely in Spanish. He also did a Spanish-language beer commercial.

Trivia

  • He loosely based his portrayal of Alex Romero on a family friend nicknamed "Chuckles" who rarely smiles. He wanted to keep the character guarded and said that he wanted Norma Bates to be the one to finally make the character smile and open up.[1]
  • He is a three time director on the show.
  • He is also good friends with co-star Freddie Highmore, who he would go on to work with again as director of a first season episode of the latter's follow-up TV series The Good Doctor.

References

  1. Nestor Carbonell on IMDb

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Main Cast
All Seasons
Vera FarmigaFreddie HighmoreMax ThieriotOlivia Cooke
Season 1
Vera FarmigaFreddie HighmoreMax ThieriotOlivia CookeNicola Peltz
Season 2
Vera FarmigaFreddie HighmoreMax ThieriotOlivia CookeNicola PeltzNestor Carbonell
Season 3
Vera FarmigaFreddie HighmoreMax ThieriotOlivia CookeNestor CarbonellKenny Johnson
Season 4
Vera FarmigaFreddie HighmoreMax ThieriotOlivia CookeNestor Carbonell
Season 5
Vera FarmigaFreddie HighmoreMax ThieriotOlivia CookeNestor Carbonell
Guest Stars
Season 1
Ben CottonDavid CubittDiana BangIan HartIan TraceyJere BurnsHiro KanagawaKeegan Connor TracyMike VogelNestor CarbonellPaul JarrettTerry ChenVincent GaleW. Earl Brown
Season 2
Agam DarshiBrendan FletcherFrancis X. McCarthyIan TraceyKathleen RobertsonKeegan Connor TracyKenny JohnsonMartin CumminsMichael EklundMichael O'NeillMichael VartanPaloma KwiatkowskiPaul JarrettRebecca CreskoffVincent Gale
Season 3
Andrew HowardCourtney RichterEmiliano DíezFiona VroomJoshua LeonardKeenan TraceyKeegan Connor TracyKenny JohnsonKevin RahmNicola PeltzPeter StebbingsRyan HurstTom McBeathTomiwa EdunTracy SpiridakosWilson Bethel
Season 4
Alessandro JulianiAlexia FastAlison MatthewsAndrew HowardAnika Noni RoseCraig EricksonDamon GuptonDavid CubittElizabeth GreerFiona VroomJaime Ray NewmanJay BrazeauKarin KonovalKarina LogueKeenan TraceyKelly-Ruth MercierKenny JohnsonLindsey GinterLouis FerreiraLuke RoesslerMarshall AllmanMolly PriceRyan Hurst
Season 5
Al SapienzaAndrea BrooksAustin NicholsBrooke SmithCarlton CuseChris ShieldsDamon GuptonFiona VroomIan TraceyIsabelle McNallyJillian FargeyKenny JohnsonNatalia Cordova-BuckleyRaphael SbargeRihannaRyan HurstTeryl Rothery
Crew
Showrunners
Anthony CiprianoCarlton CuseKerry Ehrin
Directors
Christopher NelsonDavid StraitonEd BianchiJohan RenckJohn David ColesFreddie HighmoreLodge KerriganMax ThieriotNestor CarbonellOlatunde OsunsanmiPaul EdwardsPhil AbrahamRoxann DawsonSarah BoydSJ ClarksonSteph GreenStephen SurjikTim SouthamTJ ScottTucker Gates
Writers
Alexandra CunninghamAlyson EvansAnthony CiprianoBill BalasCarlton CuseErica LipezFreddie HighmoreJeff WadlowKerry EhrinLiz TigelaarNikki ToscanoPhilip BuiserScott KosarSteve KornackiTom SzentgyorgyiTorrey Speer
Miscellaneous
Anna JoukovaCary SmithChris BaconCory BirdEdward WarschilkaJamie Kaye WheelerJustis GreeneLorenzo SignorettiRyan Neatha JohnsonTerry WeaverVera FarmigaVikash Patel
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