Elliot Villar

Elliot Villar (born June 6, 1980) is an American theater and screen actor. He made his Broadway debut in 2011 as part of the original cast of War Horse.[1] He is perhaps best known for his role as Fernando Vera in the USA Network show Mr. Robot.

Elliot Villar
Born (1980-06-06) June 6, 1980
The Bronx, New York
Alma mater
OccupationActor
Years active2004–present
Notable work
Mr. Robot

Early life and education

Villar was born on June 6, 1980 in the Bronx, New York. He attended the Villa Maria Academy in the northeastern Bronx for grammar school and received a scholarship to attend the Fieldston School, from which he graduated in 1998.[2] Villar studied drama at Vassar College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree there in 2002.[3] After graduating, Villar was selected for a year-long fellowship with the Shakespeare Theater Company of Washington, D.C. He then returned to New York City for a year before being accepted into the Yale School of Drama.[4] He graduated in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting.[5] Villar also trained at the British American Drama Academy and the National Theatre Institute.[6]

Career

Villar began his professional acting career in 2003 as a fellow of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C. He acted in multiple regional theater productions during this period and made his screen acting debut in the 2004 independent comedy Knots.[6] He then went on to receive a MFA in acting, after which he began a successful New York theater career. In 2007, he starred as Demetrius in the Public Theater's production of A Midsummer Night Dream for their Shakespeare in the Park program.[7] That Fall, he starred in the off-Broadway production The Brothers Size opposite Brian Tyree Henry.[8] In the following three years, he was part off the acclaimed casts of the regional production Boleros for the Disenchanted, the musical Coraline at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the Shakespeare-adaptation The Age of Iron with the Classic Stage Company, and After the Revolution with Playwrights Horizon.[9][10] He also had small roles in films and television shows, including The Rebound and Law & Order.

Villar made his Broadway debut in 2011 as part of the cast of the American production of War Horse.[11] As part of the original cast, he played the roles of Allan and Sodat Klausen.[1] The production was critically acclaimed and received five Tony Awards that year. Villar stayed with the production until it closed in January 2013.[12]

In 2013, Villar was in the limited-run production of Collapse at the New York City Center.[13] He also guest acted on episodes of the shows Blue Bloods and Elementary. From 2014 onwards, Villar began acting more for television. He guest starred on many different network TV shows. His first recurring role was in 2015 as Thomas Schmidt in a two-episode arc in FOX's Gotham. In the same year, he had a recurring role in The Affair.[14]

In July 2015, Villar debuted his character Fernando Vera, an eccentric Dominican gangster, in the series premiere of USA's Mr. Robot.[15] He appeared in three episodes in the first season and next appeared in the post-credit scene of the third season's finale episode.[16] Villar was promoted to a main character in the show's fourth and final season.

In the four years following 2015, Villar guest starred on seven television shows and held recurring roles on four other shows; these include AMC's The Son, a seven-episode arc on the science fiction drama Time After Time, as an FBI agent in Sneaky Pete, and as Detective Herrera in the CBS anthology thriller show Tell Me a Story.[14] He returned to the stage in 2018 for the off-Broadway production of Mary Page Marlowe at the Second Stage Theatre.[17][18]

Personal life

Villar is married to actress Emily Dorsch.[5][19]

Filmography

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2008 The Return of Jezebel James Francis Episode: "Return of the Crazy Jackal Shillelagh Lady"
2009 The Beautiful Life: TBL DJ Episode: "Pilot"
2010 Law & Order Oscar Silva Episode: "Brazil"
2010 Mercy Dale's Officer Episode: "We All Saw This Coming"
2013 Blue Bloods James Montero Episode: "Drawing Dead"
2013 Elementary Christian Suarez Episode: "Blood is Thicker"
2014 The Good Wife Dr. Ian Vail Episode: "Dramatics, Your Honor"
2014 Black Box Bomb Squad Tech Episode: "Kodachrome"
2015 Gotham Thomas Schmidt 2 episodes
2015 The Blacklist Loyd Munroe Episode: "The Longevity Initiative (No. 97)"
2015 American Odyssey Aide Episode: "Kmag Yoyo"
2015-2019 Mr. Robot Fernando Vera 8 episodes
2015 The Affair Andrew Nunez 2 episodes
2016 The Mysteries of Laura Yasiel Leon Episode: "The Mystery of the Political Operation"
2017 The Son Cesar Sanchez 2 episodes
2017 Time After Time Doug Lawson 7 episodes
2018 Sneaky Pete Agent Kent / Adam 3 epsisodes
2018 Deception Feliz Ruiz Episode: "Pilot"
2018 Shades of Blue Officer Stone Episode: "The Reckoning"
2018 Tell Me A Story Detective Herrera 2 episodes
2019 The Enemy Within Steven Haibach Episode: "An Offer"
2019 The Code Captain Tevez Episode: "P.O.G."
2019 The Chi Robert Moreno Episode: "Blind Eye"
2019-2020 God Friended Me Miguel 2 episodes
2020 Manifest Ward Attwood Episode: "Call Sign"

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2004 Knots Oblivious mover
2008 Two Lovers Bystander
2009 The Rebound Yael
2012 Jagoo Jagoo Short film
2015 The Intern Escalade Driver
2018 Loser Leaves Town Francisco Short film

Theater
Year Title Role Venue
2002 The Winter's Tale Ensemble Michael R. Klein Theatre:
August 27 – October 20, 2002
2004 I'm with Mauricio Alex INTAR Theater:
June 25–27, 2004
2004 El amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín Perlimpín Repertorio Español:
2004
2005 The Winter's Tale Florizel Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre:
June 30 – August 13, 2005
2006 All's Well That Ends Well Lord Dumaine Yale Repertory Theater:
April 27 – May 20, 2006
2007 A Midsummer Night's Dream Demetrius Delacorte Theater:
August 8 – September 9, 2007
2007 The Brothers Size Elegba The Public Theater:
January 16 – March 16, 2008
2008 Boleros for the Disenchanted Eusebo/Oskar Huntington Theatre:
October 10 – November 15, 2008
2009 Coraline Mr. Bobo/Others Lucille Lortel Theatre:
May 8 – July 5, 2009
2009 The Age of Iron Hector Classic Stage:
November 4 – December 6, 2009
2010 After the Revolution Miguel Playwrights Horizon:
October 21 – December 12, 2010
2011–13 War Horse Allan/Soldat Vivian Beaumont Theatre:
March 15, 2011 – January 6, 2013
2013 Collapse David New York City Center:
August 10 – September 10, 2013
2018 Mary Page Marlowe Ben Second Stage Theatre:
April 7 – August 19, 2018

References
  1. "Elliot Villar". Playbill. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  2. "Profile: Elliot Villar" (PDF). The Villa. Bronx, NY: Villa Maria Academy: 7–8. Fall 2015.
  3. "All in the Family - Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly". vq.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  4. Sugarman, Raphael (March 9, 2012). "Humanizing Beasts of Burden". qns.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  5. "Alumni Notes: 59". Yale School of Drama Annual Magazine. Fall 2015, Vol. LVV: 108. 2015.
  6. "Resume". Elliot Villar. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  7. Brantley, Ben (2007-08-24). "A Midsummer Night's Dream - Central Park - Theater". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  8. "The Brothers Size". iobdb.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  9. "Elliot Villar". www.huntingtontheatre.org. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  10. "Elliot Villar". iobdb.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  11. Brantley, Ben (2011-04-14). "'War Horse,' From National Theater, at Lincoln Center - Review". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  12. "Elliot Villar – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  13. "Collapse". iobdb.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  14. "Elliot Villar". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  15. "Fernando Vera played by Elliot Villar | Characters & Cast | Mr. Robot". USA Network. 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  16. Francisco, Eric. "'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Post-Credits, Explained". Inverse. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  17. "Mary Page Marlowe". iobdb.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  18. Stasio, Marilyn (2018-07-13). "Off Broadway Review: 'Mary Page Marlowe'". Variety. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  19. Missouri, Anna Cherry (2016-03-14). "Creatives Series: 6 Questions with Elliot Villar". HipLatina. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
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