Amaury Nolasco

Amaury Nolasco was born in Puerto Rico o Dominican parents, where his childhood friend was baseball player Jorge Posada. He studied biology at the University of Puerto Rico on the road to becoming a doctor, but a casting director who recruited him into an appearance in a commercial changed his plans, and within a few gigs he was hooked. He packed his bags and moved to New York, where he enrolled at the American-British-Dramatic-Arts School and began appearing on shows like CSI and ER. Within a few years, Nolasco had built up a resumé that made him more viable for substantial movie roles.

When not working, he lives in Los Angeles and enjoys playing golf and tennis. After moving to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career, he worked at the popular club the Conga Room. He has also studied at The Marjorie Ballentine Studio, where he was a classmate of future Prison Break co-star James Hiroyuki Liao.

These big breaks were nothing, however, compared to the job he got in 2005 when he was cast as series regular Fernando Sucre on the hit series Prison Break. On the heels of this success, Nolasco nabbed a supporting role in the David Spade comedy The Benchwarmers, but much more impressive was the role he signed up for later that year, joining the cast of the hotly anticipated big-screen version of Transformers, slated for release in 2007.

Nolasco was a supporter of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama and made a guest appearance in Will.I.Am's music video, "Yes We Can".

He has been romantically linked to former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres. He is dating Jennifer Morrison.