
Andre Royo
Biography
Andre Royo (born July 18, 1968) is an American actor, producer, and writer. He is best known for his role as Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins on the HBO crime drama series The Wire. Other television appearances include Fringe, Party Down, How to Make It in America, and Empire. In film, he had roles in Shaft (2000), Super (2010), The Spectacular Now (2013), Beautiful Boy (2018), Prospect (2018), and To Leslie (2022). Royo was born in the Bronx, New York of African American and Cuban heritage. He attended Mount Saint Michael Academy in The Bronx from 1982 - 1986. Royo is married to Jane Choi and has a daughter, Stella.
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Acting History
2025
A Fence Is A Fence Of Course as Leon
2025Miles Away as George
2022To Leslie as Royal
2021With Love as Laz Zayas
2020Interrogation as Charlie Shannon
2019Truth Be Told as Demetrius Rouche
2018Beautiful Boy as Spencer
2018Prospect as Oruf
2018Billy Boy as Mr. Adams
2016Hunter Gatherer as Ashley
2015Lila & Eve as Skaketti
2015Share as Mr. White
2015Empire as Thurston 'Thirsy' Rawlings
2015Marvel's Agent Carter as Spider Raymond
2014Of Mind and Music as Kenny
2014Kingdom
2014Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories as Isaiah
2014Hand of God as Robert 'Bobo' Boston
2014Aftermath as Rob
2013A Miracle in Spanish Harlem as Tyrone
2013Hellbenders as Stephen
2013Masters of Sex as Sammy Davis Jr.
2013The Spectacular Now as Mr. Aster
2013Drunk History as King Oliver
2013Calloused Hands as Byrd
2012The Collection as Wally
2012Bigfoot as Al Hunter
2012Grimm Fairy Tales Animated as Rumpelstilskin
2012Elementary as Thaddeus
2012Freelancers as Daniel Maldonado
2012The Wire: The Musical as Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins
2012Key & Peele as Bully's Dad
2012Red Tails as Antwan 'Coffee' Coleman
2011Bob's Burgers as Andre Royo (voice)
2011Bob's Burgers as Marcus (voice)
2010Super as Hamilton
2009The Mercy Man as Tad
2009Party Down as Scott
2008Fringe as Henry Arliss Higgins
2008August as Dylan Gottschalk
2008Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as Sumner
2007The Wire: The Last Word as Self
2007The Wire Odyssey as Self
2007All About Us as Mike
2007Tapping the Wire as Self
2006Heroes as Stephen Canfield
20065up 2down as Benny
2006All the Invisible Children as Sammy (segment "Jesus Children of America")
2005Jesus Children of America as Sammy
2005Criminal Minds as Armando Salinas
2005Jellysmoke as Paul
2005Cuts
2005Numb3rs as Tim Pynchon
2004CSI: NY as Big Willie Brown
2004Men Without Jobs as Junie
2004The Jury
2002CSI: Miami as Julio Pena
2002The Wire as Bubbles
2002G as Tre
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Riley
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Luther Pinkston
2000Deadline as 1st Junkie
2000Shaft as Tattoo
2000Wonderland as Spencer
1999Third Watch as Diop
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Felix Santos
1990Law & Order as Gil Freeman
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