DeLaRosa Rivera
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Delarosa Rivera was born in Patterson, New Jersey to Rosa Rivera but grew up in the Bronx, New York City. Being a single parent to Delarosa and a daughter, Jesenia, Rosa was extremely overprotective. Aware of the streets Rosa did all she could to prevent her son from going down the very limited options in the South Bronx.
It was those same streets that lead Delarosa to performance initially through street dance. By the age of 16, he was considered a top street dancer in the Bronx eventually becoming a background dancer for a top 100 pop dance charts artist. Soon after he signed his first record deal with Mic Mac records for a song he wrote released as a single "Whats the Need" making him an ASCAP member. Moving to Miami where the Latin boom was happening he joined Area 305 bilingual boy band and signed a major deal with BMG. Later leaving the group because of creative differences and licensing an original song Dejame Volar in France on Atoll Records.
On returning to New York after several years he was offered his first acting role in a short film alongside David Zayas. On the the suggestion of the director telling Delarosa he is a natural, he decides to move to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career leaving all of his family and friends behind. Once in LA, he does everything from being the costume character Dr. Octopus on Hollywood Boulevard to lots of extra work. This leads to standing-in on top TV shows and major budget feature films including Hawthorne (2009), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Mistresses (2013) and Extant (2014).
Delarosa began to learn what you can't be taught in acting school by being in 'top of the field' production sets with some of the best acting talent in the industry. Knowing if you surround yourself with the best, you're learning from the best. Delarosa dove in and did everything possible to perfect his craft, including studying with Aaron Speiser.
His acting has been in mostly independent films including King of the Streets (2009), Death of a Gangster (2012), several plays including Tony Award winning play "Take Me Out" and the international hit cable TV film anthology series The DL Chronicles (2005). Most recently Delarosa acted in the latest installment of the highly successful anticipated video game of Far Cry Primal (2016) playing the role of ULL Udam Lord.
It was those same streets that lead Delarosa to performance initially through street dance. By the age of 16, he was considered a top street dancer in the Bronx eventually becoming a background dancer for a top 100 pop dance charts artist. Soon after he signed his first record deal with Mic Mac records for a song he wrote released as a single "Whats the Need" making him an ASCAP member. Moving to Miami where the Latin boom was happening he joined Area 305 bilingual boy band and signed a major deal with BMG. Later leaving the group because of creative differences and licensing an original song Dejame Volar in France on Atoll Records.
On returning to New York after several years he was offered his first acting role in a short film alongside David Zayas. On the the suggestion of the director telling Delarosa he is a natural, he decides to move to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career leaving all of his family and friends behind. Once in LA, he does everything from being the costume character Dr. Octopus on Hollywood Boulevard to lots of extra work. This leads to standing-in on top TV shows and major budget feature films including Hawthorne (2009), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Mistresses (2013) and Extant (2014).
Delarosa began to learn what you can't be taught in acting school by being in 'top of the field' production sets with some of the best acting talent in the industry. Knowing if you surround yourself with the best, you're learning from the best. Delarosa dove in and did everything possible to perfect his craft, including studying with Aaron Speiser.
His acting has been in mostly independent films including King of the Streets (2009), Death of a Gangster (2012), several plays including Tony Award winning play "Take Me Out" and the international hit cable TV film anthology series The DL Chronicles (2005). Most recently Delarosa acted in the latest installment of the highly successful anticipated video game of Far Cry Primal (2016) playing the role of ULL Udam Lord.
