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Date of Birth

19 November 1953, Bakersfield, California, USA

Birth Name

Robert Adame Beltran

Height

6' (1.83 m)

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Robert Adame Beltran was born in Bakersfield, California, on November 19, 1953. He is the seventh of ten children, of Mexican-Native American ancestry, though Robert describes his heritage as Latindio. After finishing high school, he attended Fresno State College, where he graduated with a degree in theater arts. Beltran landed his first film role in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit (1981) in 1981. One year later, he landed the role of Raoul in Paul Bartel's Eating Raoul (1982). Other appearances included Gaby: A True Story (1987), Nixon (1995) and another Paul Bartel film, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) among others. In the theater, he has appeared in productions for Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the LA Theater Center, the California Shakespeare Festival and others. Robert founded and serves as co-artistic director of the East LA Classic Theater Group, with a staff of professional actors. There, he played Hamlet and served as co-producer as well as director. Robert appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream; King Henry IV; A Touch of the Poet; and The Price, among others. In 1995, he got the part of Commander Chakotay on "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995). At that time, he received a Nosotros Golden Eagle Award as best actor in a television series. Robert supports National Down Syndrome Society and lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Mini Biography

In his political activity, Robert Beltran has engaged over recent years in a series of classical drama workshops mainly on Shakespeare with the LaRouche Youth Movement of the Democratic Party as well as participating in several Schiller Institute conferences speaking on the subject of classical drama, most recently on his 2003 staging of Clifford Odets' 1948 play "The Big Knief".

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Trivia

Is of Mexican-Native American ancestry.

Went to Fresno State University and majored in Theatre Arts.

Last name is pronounced bel-TRAHN.

He has two sisters (Dolores and Esther) and 7 brothers (Louie, Salvador, Eddie, Tommy, Roy, Frank and Stevie).

He has seven brothers and two sisters, including the well-known Latin Jazz musician Louie Cruz Beltran.

As a second generation Mexican-American, he describes his heritage as Latindio.

Robert supports the "National Down Syndrome Association", a cause that is important to him because of his youngest brother who suffers from Down Syndrome.

Personal Quotes

I hate long goodbyes. I don't even let people take me to the airport.

The Classical principle is not that everybody comes away happy; but that everybody comes out thinking, which is a validation of ourselves as human beings, as opposed to the animals that go to a rave or a hip-hop concert, and just dance away in some kind of flagellant hysteria. The Classical principle is that you go and you sit and absorb the events of the play, And you think about it afterwards.

I thought Star Trek: Voyager was punishment for everything in my life up till that point. Thanks, dear Lord for the Star Trek gig.

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