My new favorite actor!
Diego Boneta
Maybe you know him from Mean Girls 2, Zeke and Luther, 90210 & Pretty little liars.
So he is not new in holywood.
And now he is in Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise & Russell Brand.
Rock of Ages
Set in 1987 Los Angeles, Drew and Sherrie are two young people chasing their dreams in the big city. When they meet, it's love at first sight, though their romance will face a series of challenges.
Diego
Born on November 29, 1990 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Full name Diego Andrés González Boneta.
Biography
Born in Mexico City, Diego began his career at the age of 12 when he participated in "Codigo Fama," a children's singing reality series in Mexico. After finishing inside the top 5 on the show, he landed his first television role starring as "Ricardo" on "Alegrijes y Rebujos" which also had a musical group attached to the series. Along with this musical group, Diego was nominated for the Best Children's Group at the Latin Grammys in 2004. He was nominated for his second Latin Grammy in 2005 for the soundtrack of "Mision SOS."
Soon after he joined "Rebelde," one of the most popular and longest running Novelas across Latin America. In 2006, he released his debut album DIEGO MAS through EMI Mexico. The album lead to two Top 10 hits in Mexico and reached gold status in Chile and Brazil. He toured with Rebelde's musical group, RBD, throughout Latin America, Europe and the U.S.A. as a solo artist. Diego was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2006 MTV Awards Latin America.
In 2008, he executive produced of his second album INDIGO. Diego wrote 9 of the 11 songs in this album and it received gold status within the month of its release. He was nominated as the Best Solo Singer at the MTV Awards Latin America.
Diego has just been cast in the lead role of "Drew" in Rock of Ages for Adam Shankman and New Line Cinema to be distributed through Warner Brothers June 2012. Cast includes Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Mary J Blige, Catherine Zeta Jones and Paul Giamatti. This is a breakout role.
Most recently Diego wrapped MTV pilot Underemployed in which he costars as Miles, a struggling model faced with the reality of the post-college real world. Diego was last seen as the male lead of Mean Girls 2 for ABC Family. Additionally Diego recently wrapped a 5 episode arc on ABC Family's hit drama Pretty Little Liars opposite Lucy Hale and Ashley Bensen. As well as a 5 episode arc on the CW's 90210 as famous Latin pop star Javier and love interest to Jessica Lowndes. In the season finale, Diego performed an original single "Siempre Tu," from his new album.
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And what do you think of him? I think he's really cute ;-)
Love,
Me
