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name: "Freddy Rodriguez"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/freddy-rodriguez"
fi1m_id: "freddy-rodriguez"
imdb_id: "nm0135585"
tmdb_id: 6862
wikidata_id: "Q362697"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 January 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T00:42:03.814194+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Freddy Rodriguez

## Identity

Freddy Rodriguez

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/freddy-rodriguez
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** freddy-rodriguez
- **IMDb ID:** nm0135585
- **TMDB ID:** 6862
- **Wikidata ID:** Q362697
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Rodriguez_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362697, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135585/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6862

Actor. Born 17 January 1975 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 January 1975, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 2001–present
- **Also known as:** Freddy Rodríguez, Freddy Capra, 프레디 로드리게스
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 70 (2), 2020s 86 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, Animation 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $182m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Rodriguez_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362697, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135585/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6862

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Scavengers Reign*](https://film.one/tv/scavengers-reign.md) (86), [*Six Feet Under*](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md) (86)

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## Fi1m on Freddy Rodriguez

> Freddy Rodriguez plays men who are good at work nobody is watching and know exactly what that costs them. Television has used him best, in *Six Feet Under* above all; film has mostly handed him smaller rooms and asked him to be funny in them.

Freddy Rodriguez does his best work in rooms other people would rather not enter. In *Six Feet Under* (2001) he is Federico Diaz, the restorative artist at the Fisher funeral home, which means he spends much of five seasons in a basement putting faces back together while the family argues upstairs. He plays Rico as a man who is good at a job nobody wants to watch him do and who knows what that is worth. The ambition is never loud. It is in the way he waits to be asked, and the way he notices when he is not.

That is the part he keeps playing, in different clothes. Rodriguez is cast again and again as working-class or professional Latino men trying to get on inside institutions or families that were not built with them in mind: Benny Colón, the former prosecutor on *Bull* (2016–2021); a run on *Ugly Betty*; the supporting film parts around them. He has said of Rico that "it was important to me that he be flawed, it was important to me that he not be stereotypical", and the work bears that out. His men are allowed to be petty, proud and wrong, which is more than television usually gives a character in his position.

The career has a shape. Early film roles in the mid-1990s, *A Walk in the Clouds* (1995) alongside Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn and *Dead Presidents* (1995) for the Hughes Brothers, then Alan Ball's series, which made him a regular. After it he tried films: co-lead with Christian Bale in David Ayer's first picture, *Harsh Times* (2005), and the action hero El Wray in Robert Rodriguez's *Planet Terror* (2007), a rare chance to carry a genre film. Those are the exceptions. The feature leads thinned out after the mid-2000s, and his reputation rests where it started, in long-running ensembles, with voice work in animation and games filling the gaps.

Among the Fishers, we found him the easiest person in the house to be with, and the one whose grievances we understood first. The series is exhausting company by design, and Rico is the one character whose complaints are about work rather than feelings; when he stands at the embalming table doing careful, skilled things that nobody upstairs will mention, we felt the slight before he had said a word. He is the employee in a family business, and Rodriguez never lets us forget it.

The limits are real. In smaller film parts he has sometimes been used as a sight gag, *Lady in the Water* (2006) among them, and the quiet, contained detail that serves him in *Nothing Like the Holidays* (2008) does not always survive a script that wants him to be funny with his body. He is better when he is allowed to be still. Start with *Six Feet Under*, and watch the basement.

## Biography

Freddy Rodríguez is an American actor born on 17 January 1975 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Lincoln Park High School in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles shortly after graduation to begin his acting career.

Rodríguez portrayed Federico Diaz in the HBO series *Six Feet Under* (2001–2005). He has appeared in films including *Planet Terror* (2007) and *Poseidon* (2006), and has provided voice work for animated series such as *Teen Titans* (2003) and *Danny Phantom* (2004). He later had recurring roles in *Ugly Betty* (2007–2010) and starred as Benny Colon in *Bull* (2016–2021).

For his performance in *Six Feet Under*, Rodríguez received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, and several Imagen Awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Scavengers Reign* (2023), Fi1m 86, as Terrence (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/scavengers-reign.md)
- *Poseidon* (2006), Fi1m 55, as Valentin — [page](https://film.one/film/poseidon.md)
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), Fi1m 86, as Federico Diaz — [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)

## Complete filmography (59)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Blue Eyed Girl* (2025), as Cal
- *Pocket Change* (2025), as Drifter
- *V/H/S/85* (2023), as Detective Wayne (segment "Dreamkill")
- *Scavengers Reign* (2023), series, as Terrence (voice) — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/scavengers-reign.md)
- *Bull* (2016), series, as Benny Colón
- *Nelson Bixby Takes on the Whole Wide World* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Fort Bliss* (2014), as Garver
- *The Night Shift* (2014), series, as Michael Ragosa
- *Mediation* (2014), as Roman Lindo
- *CBGB* (2013), as Idaho
- *Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden* (2012), as Trench
- *Perception* (2012), series, as Wesley Sumter
- *Soldiers of Fortune* (2012), as Reed
- *Ben 10 / Generator Rex: Heroes United* (2011), as Ceaser Salazar (voice)
- *CHAOS* (2011), series, as Rick Martinez
- *Young Justice* (2010), series, as Eduardo 'Ed' Dorado, Jr. (voice), El Dorado (voice), Eduardo 'Ed' Dorado, Jr. / Ramon Bracuda (voice)
- *Generator Rex* (2010), series, Actor
- *Nothing Like the Holidays* (2008), as Jesse Rodriguez · Executive Producer
- *Little Spirit: Christmas in New York* (2008), as Leo's Father  (voice)
- *Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita)* (2008), as Flaco / Crutches Guy (voice)
- *Bottle Shock* (2008), as Gustavo Brambila
- *Planet Terror* (2007), as Wray
- *Grindhouse* (2007), as Wray (segment "Planet Terror")
- *Ugly Betty* (2006), series, as Gio Rossi
- *Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!* (2006), as Rupert Garcia (voice)
- *Bobby* (2006), as José Rojas
- *Lady in the Water* (2006), as Reggie
- *Poseidon* (2006), as Valentin — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/poseidon.md)
- *Havoc* (2005), as Hector
- *Harsh Times* (2005), as Mike Alonzo
- *Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story* (2005), as Manolin
- *Dallas 362* (2005), as Rubin the Roofer
- *American Dad!* (2005), series, as Hector (voice)
- *TV Revolution* (2004), series, Actor
- *Danny Phantom* (2004), series, as Mayor Montez (voice)
- *Teen Titans* (2003), series, as Más y Menos (voice)
- *Chasing Papi* (2003), as Victor
- *Pledge of Allegiance* (2003), as Sean 'Mac' Macintyre
- *Beyond the City Limits* (2001), as Topo
- *Good Advice* (2001), as (uncredited)
- *Scrubs* (2001), series, as Mark
- *The Proud Family* (2001), series, as Stomp (voice)
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), series, as Federico Diaz — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)
- *For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story* (2000), as Leonel Sandoval
- *Static Shock* (2000), series, as Fade / Tech (voice)
- *Oh, Grow Up* (1999), series, as Deke
- *Payback* (1999), as Messenger
- *Family Guy* (1999), series, as Handy Manny (voice) — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/family-guy.md)
- *Joseph's Gift* (1999), as Joseph Keller
- *Can't Hardly Wait* (1998), as T.J.
- *The Pest* (1997), as Ninja
- *Seduced by Madness* (1996), series, as Michael Maldonado
- *Dead Presidents* (1995), as Jose
- *A Walk in the Clouds* (1995), as Pedro Aragón, Jr.
- *ER* (1994), series, as Simon — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md)
- *Party of Five* (1994), series, as Albert — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/party-of-five.md)
- *The Fence* (1994), as Young Terry Griff
- *Angel Street* (1992), series, as Halo Trujillo
- *You Lose, You Die*, as Mr. Fantastik · Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Actor Freddy Rodriguez picture from 2021](https://film.one/media/person/61347/gallery-deee36b3043f.jpg) Actor Freddy Rodriguez picture from 2021 — FireStarTabby, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Freddy_Rodriguez_2021.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Freddy Rodriguez (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/61347/gallery-d4c8da160b01.jpg) Freddy Rodriguez (2007) — David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Freddy_Rodriguez_2_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/1280px-Freddy_Rodriguez_2_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Freddy Rodriguez](https://film.one/media/person/61347/gallery-8356a53b3987.jpg) Freddy Rodriguez — David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Freddy_Rodriguez_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/1280px-Freddy_Rodriguez_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Freddy Rodriguez](https://film.one/media/person/61347/gallery-2b4bd9bf16a9.jpg) Freddy Rodriguez — Image via TMDB
- ![Freddy Rodriguez](https://film.one/media/person/61347/gallery-9b7ff3e1cbb2.jpg) Freddy Rodriguez — Image via TMDB

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