Reynaldo Pacheco

Reynaldo Andrés Pacheco Muguertegui (born 24 July 1987) is a Bolivian actor and composer, known for portraying various Hollywood characters.

Early life Pacheco was born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia. At the age of 13, he joined a theater group at La Salle school and then went abroad as an exchange student, residing in Brilliant, Ohio. At 17, Pacheco produced his own play and joined the musical theater group at the Jefferson County Christian School. Upon returning to Bolivia, he enrolled in the Bolivian Catholic University San Pablo to study business administration and joined another theater group. He was also a member of La Rodilla del Telón, a traveling group of street artists of La Paz, and later became a prominent performer of La Paz Philharmonic.

In 2006, he was one of ten students accepted into an advanced arts program at the University of Southern California, where he graduated in 2009. Beginning in that same year, he began working as an actor in Los Angeles. He then had a brief stint at his native Bolivia's cinema, working in leading roles, including in the biopic of Bolivian singer-songwriter Nilo Soruco.

In 2015, he played another role at a Hollywood production, joining the cast of Our Brand Is Crisis. The film made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2015, and was released nationwide in the United States on 30 October of the same year. For his role in the film, Pacheco received an Imagen Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.

Pacheco has also taken acting credits as a guest starring role in CSI: NY and another role in Without Men, where he starred alongside Eva Longoria and Kate del Castillo. He also had supporting roles in The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez and in Beginners.

Reynaldo founded the Hollywood Academy of Performing Arts (HAPA), an international acting and screenwriting academy based in different cities in both, his native Bolivia and the United States, and later founded a social activism group, where he shares inspiring stories of struggling families from undeveloped countries.

In the same interview, Pacheco said that he was never judged for leaving Bolivia, adding that people in Bolivia see him as someone who "realized a crazy dream" without abandoning (his) roots, with Pacheco highlighting that he never pretended to be someone else to fit in.

Filmography Year Title Role NotesRef. 2010 Beginners Julio 2024 Tu nombre y el mío Jorge Carlos "Johnny" Orosco Torres Television series

Nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result 2016 Imagen Awards Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Our Brand Is Crisis