Ricardo Chavira

Personal context

Summary

Ricardo Chavira is an American actor known for Desperate Housewives, Scandal and Selena: The Series. His television roles include family dramas, political storylines and Latino family narratives. He has repeatedly criticized Hollywood’s limited Latino representation, citing Latino writers on Welcome to the Family and calling for more varied portrayals of Latino experiences; in 2019, he described Felicity Huffman’s sentence in the college admissions scandal as an example of white privilege. He has also served as a spokesperson for breast cancer fundraising.