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- Died
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Adan Canto is a Mexican-American actor and director. He left home at the age of 16 to pursue a career as a musician. Canto wrote for and produced several songs for film and television while living in Mexico City. He began acting in a handful of commercials in Mexico City and was soon cast in a television series called Estado de Gracia. Canto eventually turned to the stage after being cast as a lead for the adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother.
In 2013, Canto made his debut in American television, playing the role of Paul Torres on the Fox drama series, The Following. In 2015 Canto played real life politician Rodrigo Lara Bonia in Netflix drama series Narcos. In 2016, he was cast in the ABC political drama series, Designated Survivor, playing White House Chief of Staff Aaron Shore opposite Kiefer Sutherland, Natascha McElhone, and Maggie Q. Canto wrote and directed his first short film Before Tomorrow in 2014. His short film The Shot earned several festival awards for Best Narrative Short Film in 2020.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Adan Canto
- SpouseStephanie Ann Lindquist(June 17, 2017 - January 8, 2024) (his death, 2 children)
- ParentsJose-Luis NarvaezMarlyn Canto-Narvaez
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Was an extra at the age of 7 in Like Water for Chocolate (1992), which was filmed in his hometown.
- Was born in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila Mexico.
- Met his wife in Brooklyn, NY in 2012.
- Wrote and directed his first short film Before Tomorrow in 2013.
- I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.
- I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.
- I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York.
- I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.
- In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.
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