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David Zayas is a Puerto Rican
Puerto Ricans in the United States

Puerto Ricans in the United States They form the second largest Hispanic and Latino Americans group in the United States, and contain the second largest group of White Hispanic and Latino Americans....
 theatrical, film, and television actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He is most known for his role as Angelo Batista on Showtime's
Showtime

Showtime is a Pay TV brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States....
 series Dexter
Dexter (TV series)

Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode....
.

in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
, but raised in the Bronx borough of New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, Zayas joined the United States Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
 early in life where he was able to develop skills that would lead him to become a New York Police
New York City Police Department

The New York City Police Department , established in 1844, is currently the largest police force in the United States, with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within Borough of New York City....
 officer after he was discharged from service. As a police officer, Zayas developed the personality that would allow him to develop as a character actor, and which led to a series of acting jobs on television and film mainly playing law enforcement officers.






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David Zayas is a Puerto Rican
Puerto Ricans in the United States

Puerto Ricans in the United States They form the second largest Hispanic and Latino Americans group in the United States, and contain the second largest group of White Hispanic and Latino Americans....
 theatrical, film, and television actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He is most known for his role as Angelo Batista on Showtime's
Showtime

Showtime is a Pay TV brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States....
 series Dexter
Dexter (TV series)

Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode....
.

Biography

Born in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
, but raised in the Bronx borough of New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, Zayas joined the United States Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
 early in life where he was able to develop skills that would lead him to become a New York Police
New York City Police Department

The New York City Police Department , established in 1844, is currently the largest police force in the United States, with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within Borough of New York City....
 officer after he was discharged from service. As a police officer, Zayas developed the personality that would allow him to develop as a character actor, and which led to a series of acting jobs on television and film mainly playing law enforcement officers. However, working in law enforcement also provided Zayas with the ability to play characters on the other side of the law, like Enrique Morales
Enrique Morales

Enrique Morales is a fictional character played by NYPD officer turned actor David Zayas on the HBO drama Oz ....
, one of the most memorable inmates of HBO's long-running prison-drama OZ
Oz (TV series)

Oz was an United States television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by Home Box Office....
. In a total number of 28 episodes from 2002-2003, Zayas's character became one of the most ruthless inmates featured in that series.

A member of the LAByrinth Theatre Company since 1992, a New York City-base traveling actors group, Zayas has branched out into television and film projects, which has diversified his résumé with guest roles in such popular television series such as New York Undercover
New York Undercover

New York Undercover is a one-hour Police procedural that aired on the FOX television network from 1994 in television to 1998 in television. The program was popular among its Hip hop culture target audience....
 and NYPD. It was at LAByrinth where he met his future wife, actress Liza Colón-Zayas
Liza Colón-Zayas

Liza Col?n-Zayas is an American actress and playwright.She was born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, and began her career starring in Off-Broadway productions....
. They presently reside in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
 where Zayas plays homicide detective Angel Batista
List of Dexter characters

List of characters, with biographical details, from the Showtime series Dexter and the Jeff Lindsay novel series it was based on, including Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, Dexter in the Dark, and the upcoming fourth book Dexter by Design....
 in the Showtime
Showtime

Showtime is a Pay TV brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States....
 drama Dexter
Dexter (TV series)

Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode....
.

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