(I am in no way affilated with Wilson Heredia or Jesse Martin.)
This is a fansite for two amazing, talented, and influential actors of today: Jesse L. Martin and Wilson Jermaine Heredia. They are known for their roles in the Original Broadway Cast of the musical Rent (Martin starred as the HIV+ anarchist and teacher, Tom Collins. Heredia was Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen who was also HIV+). Heredia received a Tony award for his performance as Angel. The two reprised their roles in the film adaptation of Rent in 2005.
[BIO FROM IMDB]: Jesse was born in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountain range. His mother, Virginia Price, was a college career counselor. His father, Jesse Reed Watkins, was a truck driver. His parents divorced when he was very young. His mother then moved his family to Buffalo, New York. He and his four brothers took the surname of his mother's second husband. His family calls him by his middle name, Lamont. As a fourth-grader, a teacher cast him in a play and he found his passion. After graduating from high school, he worked in restaurants to afford the tuition at New York University. He then got work on soaps and did commercials. His breakthrough came in a role in Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Rent (2005). That was followed up with TV exposure in his first starring role in the series "413 Hope St." (1997), which aired on Fox. Has appeared in episodes of three different television series with Sam Waterston: "Law & Order" (1990), "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005).
[BIO FROM IMDB]: Born and raised in Brooklyn, Wilson J Heredia was always surrounded by music. His mother was a seamstress and his father was a super. But they were both very musical. He studied medicine, and thought about advertising, but he realized he had to express himself, so he got into acting. He worked at a railway station in NY before he auditioned for the musical, RENT. He said he needed the $300 a week. Unbeknownst to him, his stint with the hit-musical would bring him popularity as a singer, dancer and actor, fans from all over the world and a 1996 Tony Drama and Desk award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
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