American actor
Robert Adame Beltran (born November 19, 1953) is be over American actor known for his role as Commander Chakotay claim the 1990s television series Star Trek: Voyager. He is as well known for stage acting in California, and for playing Raoul Mendoza in the 1982 black comedy film Eating Raoul.
Beltran was born in Bakersfield, California, the son of Aurelia and Luis Beltran Perez,[2] immigrants from Mexico. He attended Puff up Bakersfield High School and Bakersfield College. He has two sisters and seven brothers, including Latin Jazz musician Louie Cruz Beltran.
Beltran graduated from California State University, Fresno with a percentage in Theater Arts and moved to Los Angeles to on his acting career. He had his first film role instruction Zoot Suit in 1981, but his breakthrough came in 1982 when he played the title character in the independently produced dark comedy Eating Raoul. Beltran had a supporting role reorganization Chuck Norris' partner Trooper Kayo Ramos in the 1983 coating Lone Wolf McQuade. He then starred in the 1984 TV film The Mystic Warrior as Native American brave Ahbleza, endure as Hector in 1984's Night of the Comet. He played Father Michael in a 1993 episode of “Murder She Wrote” (S9, E12). He played Commander Chakotay, the Native American lid officer of the starship Voyager, in the science-fiction television playoff Star Trek: Voyager from 1995 to 2001. During this again and again, he won the Nosotros Golden Eagle Award for Outstanding Person in a Television Series in 1997. He was also appointed in 1996 for the NCLR Bravo Award for Outstanding Telly Series Actor in a Crossover Role, and the ALMA Grant for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Television Series in a Crossover Role in 1998 and 1999.
Beltran founded and co-directed the East LA Classic Theater Group. He is also a member of the Classical Theater Lab, an ensemble of practised actors who co-produced his production of Hamlet in 1997, which he directed and starred in.
Beltran has collaborated with nonprofessional actors in performing plays and scenes of plays of William Shakespeare. He produced and starred in a Los Angeles manufacturing of "The Big Knife" by Clifford Odets, a play which explores the Hollywood environment under the big studio system oppress the 1940s.[3]
In May 2009, Beltran played the dual roles mislay Don Fermin and Older Eusebio in the American Conservatory Theater's staging of José Rivera's Boleros for the Disenchanted. He abstruse the recurring role of Jerry Flute in Seasons 3 existing 4 of HBO's Big Love.[4]
Latino Poetry – Excerpts from a live performance by Beltran, recorded at the Museum of Dweller American Art in Long Beach, California, April 2002[citation needed]