Alvaro Orlando

Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Alvaro Orlando is of Cuban/Colombian decent. Alvaro was an amateur Golden Gloves boxer (going into the professional level) and into mixed martial arts tournaments. He also became a professional break-dancer and an all around athlete. After graduating high school, he worked as a Camera Assistant for several shows for the Spanish network, Univision. One day he was asked by the host to play an impromptu character in a comedy skit in front of the live television show "Sabado Gigante." Alvaro moved to New York and told his grandmother that Andy Garcia was not going to be the only famous Latino actor graduating from Miami Beach Senior High and added that when he gets famous, he would make a movie about how his grandmother, who came from Cuba to Miami with no money, not speaking English, no family to lean on, but still made it. As soon as he got into New York, he was cast as a host for a national bilingual urban show called "The Roof," where he had the