Biography
Clifton Collins Jr. is an American actor. Born on 16 June 1970 in Los Angeles, California, he is the grandson of actor Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez. He began his career in the late 1980s and was credited early on as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez.
He gained attention for his performance as Cesar Sanchez in the 1997 film One Eight Seven. He played Francisco 'Frankie Flowers' Flores in Traffic (2000) and Perry Smith in Capote (2005). Other film roles include appearances in Star Trek (2009), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Pacific Rim (2013) and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019). On television he has appeared in The Blacklist (2013) and as Lawrence / El Lazo in Westworld (2016).
He is credited as Harris Dutch in the 2026 series Lucky and as Lodge in the 2025 film Eddington. Collins Jr. received a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble cast of Traffic and has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
