Early life

Kirk Acevedo's parents were both born in New York City, and lived in Brooklyn where both their sons, Richard and Kirk Acevedo, were born. The Acevedos moved to the Bronx, where Kirk and his brother were raised. Since childhood, Acevedo has shown an interest in acting; he performed before his family in improvised shows. Acevedo was a drama major in high school.

After graduating from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Acevedo enrolled in the SUNY Purchase School of Acting (Purchase College). In the 1990s, Acevedo earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and, as some of his classmates had landed parts shortly after auditioning for Oz, he was also motivated to try out, and subsequently landed the role of the half-crazed gang leader prisoner Miguel Alvarez.

Career

After landing the role of Miguel Alvarez, Acevedo was promoted to series regular in season two and appeared in the following episodes: 1-26; 34-36 and 41-56. Among his other most notable credits include his roles in Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005) as Hector Salazar and HBO's Band of Brothers, produced by Steven Spielberg, as Staff sergeant Joseph Toye.

He had guest starring roles on well known Television shows such as NYPD Blue and 24. He had a notable recurring role on the Television show The Black Donnellys.

Some of his most well known movies and miniseries he has starred in include The Thin Red Line, Invincible (2006), Boiler Room (2000), Dinner Rush (2000), Arresting Gena (1997) and Kirk and Kerry (1997). He voices Jackie Estacado in The Darkness, the video game adaptation of the comic book.

In 2008, he landed a supporting role on the Fox science fiction horror television series, Fringe as Charlie Francis which he starred on since the show's beginning in 2008. During the show's second season his character began to appear infrequently and was later killed off mid-way into that very same season; he then assumed a recurring status afterward in that season, then he later returned for season 3, before moving onto another show. He played Detective Luisito Calderon on the short-lived U.S. remake of Prime Suspect. Acevedo appeared on The Walking Dead on November 24th, 2013. He currently stars in the Syfy television series 12 Monkeys.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Kirk and Kerry	Kirk	Short film
1998	Arresting Gena	Caller
1998	Thin Red Line, TheThe Thin Red Line	Pvt. Tella
2000	Boiler Room	Broker
2000	In the Weeds	Kurt
2000	Visit, TheThe Visit	Prospective Parolee
2000	Bait	Ramundo
2000	Dinner Rush	Duncan
2005	New World, TheThe New World	Sentry
2006	5up 2down	Santo
2006	Invincible	Tommy
2011	Collision Earth	Dr. James Preston
2014	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Carver

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994, 1995 & 1997	New York Undercover	Joey Claudio, Ramon & Bernard	"Tasha", "Tag, You're Dead" & "The Promised Land"
1996	The Sunshine Boys		TV film
1996	Swift Justice	Mark	"Stones"
1996	Law & Order	Richie Morales	"Corruption"
1997-2003	Oz	Miguel Alvarez	Main cast, 46 episodes
1998	Witness to the Mob	Nicky Scibetta	TV film
1999	The Sentinel	Ray Aldo	"Dead End on Blank Street"
2001	Third Watch	Paulie Fuentes	"Requiem for a Bantamweight" & "Unfinished Business"
2001	Band of Brothers	Joseph D. Toye	TV miniseries, 6 episodes
2003	Fastlane	Nick McKussick	"Iced"
2004	Paradise	Manny Marquez	TV film
2004	NYPD Blue	Scott Grafton	"Take My Wife, Please"
2005	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	DA Investigator Hector Salazar	"Night"
2005-06	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	DA Investigator Hector Salazar	Main cast, 13 episodes
2006	Numb3rs	Gino McGinty	"The Running Man"
2006	24	George Avila	"Day 5: 2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m."
2007	Cold Case	Dylan Noakes	"Thrill Kill"
2007	The Black Donnellys	Nicky Cottero	Main cast, 13 episodes
2008-11	Fringe	Charlie Francis/alt-Charlie	Main cast, 36 episodes
2009	White Collar	Ruiz	"Book of Hours"
2011-12	Prime Suspect	Det. Luisito Calderon	Main cast, 13 episodes
2012	The Mentalist	Christian Dos Santos	"Red Dawn"
2013	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	James Boyd	"In Vino Veritas"
2013	CSI: New York	James Boyd	"Seth and Apep"
2013	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Eddie Garcia	"October Surprise"
2013	Person of Interest	Timothy Sloan	"Mors Praematura"
2013	The Walking Dead	Mitch Dolgen	"Dead Weight" & "Too Far Gone"
2014	Grimm	Ron Hurd	"The Good Soldier"
2014	Legends	Kyle Dobson	"Rogue" & "Gauntlet"
2013-14	Blue Bloods	Javi "Tic-Tac" Baez	"Bad Blood" & "Partners"
2015	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Agent Tomas Calderon	"Love in the Time of Hydra" & "One Door Closes"
2015-16	12 Monkeys	Jose Ramse	Main cast

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2007	Darkness, TheThe Darkness	Jackie Estacado

Accolades

In 1999, Acevedo won an ALMA Award for his role in The Thin Red Line. He was nominated in the "Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play" category 1997 for the Drama Desk Award for Tooth of Crime. He co-founded the theater company, The Rorschach Group, with Shea Whigham. He was nominated for a total of four ALMA Awards for his role in Oz for the following years 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2001.

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