KEVIN ALEJANDRO — DAN ESPINOZA FROM LUCIFER

Mir Imad Ahmed
3 min readFeb 8, 2021

KEVIN ALEJANDRO — DAN ESPINOZA FROM LUCIFER

  1. Kevin Michael Alejandro was born on April 7, 1976.
  2. He is an American actor and film director.
  3. He is known for his roles as Nate Moretta in the crime drama Southland, Forklift Mike in Parenthood, Jesús Velázquez in the supernatural thriller True Blood, Sebastian Blood / Brother Blood in the superhero series Arrow, and as Daniel Espinoza in the comedy-crime drama Lucifer.
  4. Alejandro was born in San Antonio, Texas to Mexican parents of Spanish and English ancestry.
  5. He was featured on the ABC series Ugly Betty, playing Santos, the father of Justin Suarez and love interest of Hilda. At the time of the season 1 finale episode’s filming, he had just become a series regular on the Fox network’s newly introduced Drive, since canceled.
  6. He was a featured player in the second season of the Showtime original series Sleeper Cell, playing Benito Velasquez, and also played Dominic Hughes in The Young and the Restless.
  7. In 2006, he appeared in the NCIS episode “Driven” as the character Jamie Jones.
  8. He made an appearance, along with fellow Ugly Betty actor Eric Mabius, in the CSI: Miami episode “One of Our Own”, and another as a gay hustler in HBO’s Big Love.
  9. He appeared on an episode of Charmed season 7 as Malvock, a cunning demon. He also appeared in the first few episodes of 24’s fourth season, as a terrorist henchman, in which he also stars with Tony Plana, the fellow Ugly Betty actor.
  10. Alejandro was a regular on the now-defunct drama Shark as Deputy District Attorney Danny Reyes. Recently he had a small role on The Cleaner, an A&E television series.
  11. Alejandro appeared in the movie Crossing Over, which was released in February 2009, alongside Harrison Ford. He played Detective Nate Moretta in Southland, produced by Emmy Award winner John Wells.
  12. Southland was canceled by NBC Broadcasting just two weeks prior to the première of the show’s sophomore run but was then picked up by the cable network TNT.
  13. He has also had a role in Weeds, seasons 4 and 5. Drop Dead Diva’s Season 1 Episode 5 also features Alejandro as the wrongfully convicted Michael Fernandez.
  14. He appeared on Season 1 of Sons of Anarchy as one of the Mayan MC members, son of Marcus, the MC’s president. Alejandro stars in the third and fourth seasons of the vampire series True Blood as Jesús Velázquez.
  15. In 2011, he appeared in the movie Red State, opposite John Goodman and directed by Kevin Smith, as well as a horror film Cassadaga.
  16. He also played Tony Arroyo, a homicide detective in the 2013 television show Golden Boy. Alejandro portrayed Sheriff Tommy Solano in the ABC / A&E series The Returned.
  17. In January 2016, he began his role on the Fox TV series Lucifer as LAPD Homicide Detective Dan Espinoza.
  18. Lucifer ran for three seasons before being canceled by Fox, only to be picked back up by Netflix for season four, scheduled for early 2019. Alejandro directed the episode “Once Upon a Time”, which was intended to be aired in the series’ fourth season but instead aired as a bonus episode on May 28, 2018, after the third season had concluded.

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Mir Imad Ahmed

An expert developer, mentor, and coach. He is a software engineer by education and entrepreneur by profession.