Elliot Villar

Villar was born on June 6, 1980, in the Bronx, New York. He attended the Villa Maria Academy in the northeastern Bronx for grammar school and received a scholarship to attend the Fieldston School, from which he graduated in 1998.{{Cite journal|date=Fall 2015|title=Profile: Elliot Villar|url=https://www.vma-ny.org/the_villa/pdf/2015-2016/Summer_2016.pdf|journal=The Villa|publisher=Villa Maria Academy|publication-place=Bronx, NY|pages=7–8}} Villar studied drama at Vassar College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree there in 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://vq.vassar.edu/issues/2011/02/presidents-page/|title=All in the Family - Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly|website=vq.vassar.edu|access-date=2019-11-11}} After graduating, Villar was selected for a year-long fellowship with the Shakespeare Theater Company of Washington, D.C. He then returned to New York City for a year before being accepted into the Yale School of Drama.{{Cite web|url=https://qns.com/story/2012/03/09/humanizing-beasts-of-burden/|title=Humanizing Beasts of Burden|last=Sugarman|first=Raphael|date=March 9, 2012|website=qns.com|access-date=2019-11-11}} He graduated in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting.{{Cite journal|date=2015|title=Alumni Notes: 59|url=https://issuu.com/yalerep/docs/ysd_annual_magazine_2015/110|journal=Yale School of Drama Annual Magazine|volume=Fall 2015, Vol. LVV|pages=108}} Villar also trained at the British American Drama Academy and the National Theatre Institute.{{Cite web|url=http://www.elliotvillar.com/resume|title=Resume|website=Elliot Villar|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-11}}

Villar began his professional acting career in 2003 as a fellow of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C. He acted in multiple regional theater productions during this period and made his screen acting debut in the 2004 independent comedy Knots. He then went on to receive an MFA in acting, after which he began a successful New York theater career. In 2007, he starred as Demetrius in the Public Theater's production of A Midsummer Night Dream for their Shakespeare in the Park program.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/theater/reviews/24drea.html|title=A Midsummer Night's Dream - Central Park - Theater|last=Brantley|first=Ben|date=2007-08-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-11|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} That Fall, he starred in the off-Broadway production The Brothers Size opposite Brian Tyree Henry.{{Cite web|url=http://iobdb.com/Production/4630|title=The Brothers Size|website=iobdb.com|access-date=2019-11-11}} In the following three years, he was part of the acclaimed casts of the regional production Boleros for the Disenchanted, the musical Coraline at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the Shakespeare-adaptation The Age of Iron with the Classic Stage Company, and After the Revolution with Playwrights Horizon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/artists/Elliot-Villar/|title=Elliot Villar|website=www.huntingtontheatre.org|access-date=2019-11-11}}{{Cite web|url=http://iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/35201|title=Elliot Villar|website=iobdb.com|access-date=2019-11-11}} He also had small roles in films and television shows, including The Rebound and Law & Order.

Villar made his Broadway debut in 2011 as part of the cast of the American production of War Horse.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/theater/reviews/war-horse-from-national-theater-at-lincoln-center-review.html|title='War Horse,' From National Theater, at Lincoln Center - Review|last=Brantley|first=Ben|date=2011-04-14|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-11|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} As part of the original cast, he played the roles of Allan and Sodat Klausen. The production was critically acclaimed and received five Tony Awards that year. Villar stayed with the production until it closed in January 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/elliot-villar-489551|title=Elliot Villar – Broadway Cast & Staff {{!}} IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com|access-date=2019-11-11}}

In 2013, Villar was in the limited-run production of Collapse at the New York City Center.{{Cite web|url=http://iobdb.com/Production/5538|title=Collapse|website=iobdb.com|access-date=2019-11-11}} He also guest acted on episodes of the shows Blue Bloods and Elementary. From 2014 onwards, Villar began acting more for television. He guest starred on many different network TV shows. His first recurring role was in 2015 as Thomas Schmidt in a two-episode arc in FOX's Gotham. In the same year, he had a recurring role in The Affair.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2126265/|title=Elliot Villar|website=IMDb|access-date=2019-11-11}}

In July 2015, Villar debuted his character Fernando Vera, an eccentric Dominican gangster, in the series premiere of USA's Mr. Robot.{{Cite web|url=https://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/cast/fernando-vera|title=Fernando Vera played by Elliot Villar {{!}} Characters & Cast {{!}} Mr. Robot|date=2019-08-15|website=USA Network|language=en|access-date=2019-11-11}} He appeared in three episodes in the first season and next appeared in the post-credit scene of the third season's finale episode.{{Cite web|url=https://www.inverse.com/article/39393-mr-robot-season-3-post-credits-explained-fernando-shayla|title='Mr. Robot' Season 3 Post-Credits, Explained|last=Francisco|first=Eric|website=Inverse|date=14 December 2017 |language=en|access-date=2019-11-11}} Villar was promoted to a main character in the show's fourth and final season.

In the four years following 2015, Villar guest starred on seven television shows and held recurring roles on four other shows; these include AMC's The Son, a seven-episode arc on the science fiction drama Time After Time, as an FBI agent in Sneaky Pete, and as Detective Herrera in the CBS anthology thriller show Tell Me a Story. He returned to the stage in 2018 for the off-Broadway production of Mary Page Marlowe at the Second Stage Theatre.{{Cite web|url=http://iobdb.com/Production/6510|title=Mary Page Marlowe|website=iobdb.com|access-date=2019-11-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/legit/reviews/mary-page-marlowe-review-tatiana-maslany-1202870569/|title=Off Broadway Review: 'Mary Page Marlowe'|last=Stasio|first=Marilyn|date=2018-07-13|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2019-11-11}}

Villar is married to actress Emily Dorsch.{{Cite web|url=https://hiplatina.com/creatives-series-6-questions-with-elliot-villar/|title=Creatives Series: 6 Questions with Elliot Villar|last=Missouri|first=Anna Cherry|date=2016-03-14|website=HipLatina|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-11}}

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• [https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/elliot-villar-489551 Elliot Villar] at Internet Broadway Database
• [http://iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/35201 Elliot Villar] at Internet Off-Broadway Database
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