Acting
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California born Rick Najera started his artistic career as an actor. He is an award-winning actor-writer-director-producer with credits in film, television, theatre and Broadway. Early in his career, he was inspired and mentored by Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg, Keenen Ivory Wayans and comedian Cheech Marin. Realizing there were few roles for him to play, he took matters into his own hands and started writing his way into Hollywood, and landed his first big writing gig on In Living Color. Rick Najera is one of three Latinos in the history of Broadway to write and star in his own show. Najera made his Broadway debut in 2005 with his award-winning sketch comedy show, Latinologues (TM), the longest running and only showcase of its kind for Latinos in America. Najera penned the holiday film Nothing Like the Holidays starring Debra Messing, Alfred Molina and John Leguizamo, which won him an Alma Award. He was also honored with two WGA nominations for his writing on MADtv. Najera has been honored twice as 100 Most Influential Latinos in America along with several other awards. Rick Najera's fourth book was released in 2013, Almost White: Forced Confessions of a Latino in Hollywood garnering a press tour and five-star reviews on Amazon.com. Rick Najera is the director of the annual CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase going on 12 years. Rick Najera is a regular contributor to NPR radio and is also a professional speaker (The World Bank, Google, Harvard Law School, Wellesley College, Stanford, CBS, CNN, Al Jazeera, UCLA and more). He is the writer of the multi-Emmy nominated Hulu original series, East Los High and producer of talk show, Latino Thought Makers.

Feliz NaviDAD
as Minister
2020

Taco Shop
as Writer
2018

Habla Men
as Self
2014

American Lowrider
as Mr. Galvez
2013

Legally Brown
as Bubba Gomez
2011
Maria Costa's Macho Men and the Women Who Love Them
as Writer
2010

Nothing Like the Holidays
as Screenplay
2008

Loco Comedy Jam Volume 1
as Self
2008

Universal Remote
as Beta Max
2007

Pledge This!
as Buford Gomez
2007

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
as Alfredo Garcia Steven / Self
2006

A Day Without a Mexican
as Magician Announcer
2004

The West Wing
as Ivan 'Izzy' Perez
1999

Spicy City
as Vic Guapo (voice)
1997

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Prince Pepito / Thug #1 (voice)
1995

Floundering
as Good Samaritan
1994

Bakersfield P.D.
as Dispatcher
1993

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
as Writer
1993

Red Surf
as Calavera
1989

China Beach
1988