
Raúl Esparza
Acting
Biography
Raúl Eduardo Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is an American actor. Considered one of Broadway's most prominent leading men since the 2000s, he is best known for his Tony Award-nominated performance as Bobby in the 2006 Broadway revival of Company and for his television role as New York Assistant District Attorney (ADA) Rafael Barba in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where he had a recurring role in Season 14 and was promoted to a series regular in Seasons 15 to 19.
Born: October 24, 1970
Place of Birth: Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.
Known For

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
An in depth feature length piece on the creative efforts to approach the Hannibal television series' third season "reboot" of the Red Dragon arc.

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Go back to the beginning of television's longest-running primetime drama with behind-the-scenes footage, memorable scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors, creators and crew members.

Dead Talk Live
Film/TV Entertainment TV Talk Show Featuring Celebrity Guest Interviews.

BoJack Horseman
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

Hannibal
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

Trouble in the Heights
Near the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, a young Dominican teenager is hunted by a drug kingpin as his older brother must fight for both their survival over the course of a day in their Washington Heights neighborhood of New York.

Dopesick
The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Law & Order: Organized Crime
The detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau work to dismantle New York City's most vicious and violent illegal enterprises.

Pushing Daisies
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
Filmography
as David Alvarez
as Don Crowder
as Tony
as Paul Mendelson
as Performer
as Rafael Barba
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self - Special Guest
as Wilson Mizner
as Moreno (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Brian Kneef
as Luis Sanjuro
as Professor Jackson Neill
as Ralph Stilton (voice)
as Dr. Frederick Chilton
as Nevada
as Abel
as Bobby
as Alfredo Aldarisio
as Tony Compagna
as David Ostrowski
as The Arbiter
as Kevin Mulrooney
as Rafael Barba
as Reporter
as Dennis Di Palma
as Self - Nominee