Ray Josef Aguilar
- Actor
Aguilar was born in Fairfield, California, and later moved to Ocean
Township, New Jersey at the age of 4. RJ's parents are of Filipino
descent with lineage of Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Spanish
backgrounds. His father, Reynaldo Aguilar, is a PCA at a hospital, and
his mother, Marites Aguilar, a nurse at the same hospital. Aguilar has
a younger sister, Isabella, and had, as he has described it, a
"fortunate childhood" in his middle-class family. He is a Catholic,
having been somewhat religious. Aguilar was in a musical choir in
middle school and began acting as extras in several high school theatre
productions. He makes his first professional appearance in an amateur
horror/thriller YouTube TV series, Dead Awakening, directed and
produced by Nicholas Ummarino. Aguilar graduated from Saint Rose High
School in 2010 and attends The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
studying Political Science and Business Administration as a student in
the graduating class of 2014.