Happy Birthday actor Christian Camargo

Born: July 7, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA

Married to:
Juliet Rylance (November 2008 – present)

QUOTES:

There’s something about my Mexican-American heritage… I’m proud of it.
I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

I’ve played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in ‘As You like It’ and Ariel in ‘Tempest,’ among others.

My parents had a difficult divorce.

For reasons I don’t fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.
Juilliard is wonderful in that they don’t pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

Any part I do is a marriage of the words – what the playwright or producer or show runner’s vision is – to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of ‘Oh, they want it this way, so I’m going to do it how they want it.’

Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you’re making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.