Freddy Rodriguez Turns Ugly
Ugly Betty is looking to Fisher & Sons' master craftsman for a little in-house beautification.
Former Six Feet Under star Freddy Rodriguez will be joining the cast of the Golden Globe-winning ABC comedy this season, playing a sweet and brainy sandwich peddler who will ensure that the path from Betty's heart to Henry's does not remain short and narrow.
Gio, the new vertex in Betty's requisite love triangle, runs the Mode office lunch cart and treats each panini the way Rico approached each corpse—as a work of art.
Rodriguez, 32, was nominated for a supporting actor Emmy in 2001 for his role as mortician Federico "Rico" Diaz on HBO's late, great Six Feet Under and shared in two Screen Actors Guild Award wins for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama in 2003 and 2004.
And now the Puerto Rican-American performer has landed himself another pretty great gig, moving from one adored show to another, stopping only to take a few major film roles in the meantime.
Rodriguez most recently appeared on the big screen in the Robert Rodriguez-helmed half of Grindhouse as El Wray, who lovingly fits his amputee stripper-girlfriend Cherry Darling with an assault rifle prosthetic.
Before that he played a member of the kitchen staff under the tutelage of chef Laurence Fishburne in the Golden Globe-nominated Bobby and one of the put-upon apartment dwellers in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, which received mega buzz and then flopped spectacularly.
Ugly Betty, meanwhile, is going strong heading into its sophomore season. Star America Ferrera picked up both a Golden Globe and an individual SAG Award for her turn as beautiful-on-the-inside Betty Suarez, and the hour-long sitcom is sure to pick up multiple nods Thursday when this year's Emmy nominations are announced.
The show was one of 14 that ABC deemed worthy of an early 2007-2008 pickup back in March after reaping both critical honors and 10.9 million viewers a week.
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