A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mateo Ray
Birthplace:
Walnut Creek, California, USA
Born:
November 17, 2012
Mateo Ray was born in Walnut Creek, CA and is a 11-year old young actor and slow fashion model. He was recently awarded as the 2022 and 2024 Young Artist Academy (YAA) winner for 'Best Young Actor in a Short Film' role for the PBS special, 'The Daily War' and the LA Shorts Film Festival film, 'See You at Sunrise'. He most recently appeared on the TV network series, 9-1-1, Mayans M.C., and Netflix's Magic for Humans John Mulaney's 'Everyone's in LA'. He has supporting roles in the award-winning film, 'The Divisible', and the online streaming film, 'The Purple Night'. As a 4-year-old toddler, he was noticed for his ethnic ambiguous features and began modeling his magnetic charisma, infectious energy, unique signature mop of golden curls, and his hazel eyes and sun kissed complexion. Very quickly Mateo Ray earned roles in numerous television, film and commercial productions. Additional credits include: FX/Hulu's 'Dave', NBA MLK Day TV commercial, WalMart, and a few live stand-up comedy gigs. In addition to building an impressive resume before age 11, Mateo Ray is on a personal mission to make friends on every set he works on, by consistently exuding charm and joy, paired with a shiny personality, mature work ethic and an affinity for telling a few good jokes. His family recently moved closer to Hollywood where he can more easily pursue his promising acting, modeling, and YouTuber (as Doughnut Daily subscriber) gamer career.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.