performance well and the two still keep in touch.
“Tis was his first activity
with the stage,” Hadley says. “He hadn’t acted before but what stood out to me was that he’s a person of great substance. I also can’t think of him ever without smiling. He’s just so positive. Tere is a goodness and authenticity about him, and you can’t not watch him on stage.” Soon after graduating from
Queens, Ricamora realized he didn’t want the lonely life of the competitive tennis circuit and instead began to pursue acting full time. He studied at the Film Actors School of Charlotte and took acting jobs at several Charlotte theatres. In 2005, he landed a tiny
part in a huge movie being shot in the area. Ricamora played a DMV officer in Talladega Nights and spent a day shooting with Will Ferrell.
“I had only been acting
for two years at that point and that was such a big experience for me,” he said. “I had never been on a professional movie set before. It was just me and him in a car and it was big exposure for me. It became a huge success.” Right after the movie, Ricamora spent a year at
As a series regular, Ricamora found new fans through the ABC drama How to Get Away with Murder. He played a DMV officer in the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: Te Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
an acting fellowship in Philadelphia and then went on to get his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Tennessee. While in Knoxville, he heard about an open casting call for a David Byrne show that seemed like the perfect fit. “It was about the revolution in the Philippines and
my dad was from there and it was pop-rock and that was my style,” he explained. “I asked my acting teacher if I could fly up for an open call and I got a lead role. So, I think maybe that was my big break.”
His next break was even bigger. Ricamora landed a recurring role as the nerdy IT guy on How to Get Away with Murder—an ABC mega-hit watched by more than 14 million people the night it premiered. Two years in, Ricamora was promoted to series regular. “I think I was in 86 of the 90 episodes. It’s still
something I’m processing now to this day,” he recalls. “I remember coming out to walk my dog and there was a fan waiting to take a picture with me. On the subway, people’s heads started snapping towards me. It really changes the way you move through the world because you realize people are noticing you. It’s very disorienting and it took me three years to get a grasp on how to handle it.”
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