Raúl Esparza is an award-winning American star of stage and screen, including an acclaimed career on Broadway.
Raúl is best known for roles including his Tony Award-nominated performance as Bobby in the 2006 Broadway revival of Company, and as New York Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Raúl Esparza’s extensive stage credits include: Galileo (Berkeley Repertory Theater); Lionel Bart’s Oliver! (New York City Center); Seared (MCC Theater Space); Road Show (New York City Center); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Classic Stage Company); The Waves (Powerhouse Theater); Chess (Kennedy Center); All the President’s Men? (Town Hall); Cymbeline (Delacorte Theater); Cradle Will Rock (NY City Center); Leap of Faith (St. James Theater, NY); Arcadia (Barrymore Theater); Leap of Faith (Ahmanson Theater, LA); Anyone Can Whistle (NY City Center); Twelfth Night (Delacorte Theater); Speed the Plow (Barrymore Theater); The Homecoming (Cort Theatre); Company (Barrymore Theater); Company (Cincinnati Playhouse); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Hilton Theater); The Normal Heart (The Public Theater); Taboo (Plymouth Theater); Green Violin (Prince Music Theater); Comedians (Theatre Row); Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center); Sunday in the Park with George (Kennedy Center); Cabaret (Studio 54); tick, tick…BOOM! (Jane Street Theater); The Rocky Horror Show (Circle in the Square Theater); Evita (National Tour); What The Butler Saw (Meadow Brook Theater); Arcadia (Meadow Brook Theater).
On TV, Raúl’s has starred in shows inculding A Murder at the End of the World, Candy, BoJack Horseman, The Path, Hannibal, Law and Order: SVU and Pushing Daisies.
Raúl Esparza’s film credits include Ferdinand, Custody, Trouble in the Heights, My Soul to Take and Find Me Guilty.


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