Amaury Nolasco

Amaury Nolasco — Biography

Amaury Nolasco is a Puerto Rican actor, best known for playing Fernando Sucre in the Fox series Prison Break, a role he held from 2005 to 2009 and again in the 2017 revival. On the big screen, Michael Bay's Transformers (2007) brought him to a wide audience.

He studied biology at the University of Puerto Rico and had not planned to act; once he noticed his talent he moved to New York and trained at the American British Dramatic Arts School. Early on he appeared as a guest on series such as Arli$$, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and ER. His first film part was in Takeshi Kitano's Brother; he played "Orange Julius" in 2 Fast 2 Furious and co-starred opposite Bernie Mac in Mr. 3000. After Prison Break came series in which he was a regular: NBC's Chase (2010-2011), ABC's Work It (2012) and Rodrigo Suarez in Telenovela. In film he also appeared in Max Payne (2008) and the fifth Die Hard film. He declined the Transformers sequel because of a scheduling conflict. The music videos for Wisin & Yandel's "Imagínate" and Calle 13's "La Perla", and a guest stint as Detective Rene Cordero in the second season of Southland, are also on his record.

He has been nominated for an ALMA Award three times and for a Teen Choice Award once. In 2011 he hosted the Amaury Nolasco & Friends golf tournament in Puerto Rico, whose proceeds went to Puerto Rican charities.