Rick Najera
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Biography
California born Rick Najera started his artistic career as an actor. He is an award-winning actor-writer-director-producer with credits in film, television, theatre and Broadway. Early in his career, he was inspired and mentored by Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg, Keenen Ivory Wayans and comedian Cheech Marin. Realizing there were few roles for him to play, he took matters into his own hands and started writing his way into Hollywood, and landed his first big writing gig on In Living Color. Rick Najera is one of three Latinos in the history of Broa…
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Rick Najera's Credits
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The West Wing
Ivan 'Izzy' Perez
Columbo
Henry Santos
Falcon Crest
Paco
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Writing
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Pig Farmer (voice)
China Beach
Bakersfield P.D.
Dispatcher
Spicy City
Vic Guapo (voice)
Floundering
Good Samaritan
Nothing Like the Holidays
Writing
Red Surf
Calavera
National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
Alfredo Garcia Steven / Self
American Lowrider
Mr. Galvez
Taco Shop
Writing
Pledge This!
Buford Gomez
Legally Brown
Bubba Gomez
Universal Remote
Beta Max
Feliz NaviDAD
Minister
A Day Without a Mexican
Magician Announcer
Habla Men
Self
Loco Comedy Jam Volume 1
Self
Maria Costa's Macho Men and the Women Who Love Them
Writing