ACTOR BIO
You can pretty much declare that Ricardo Antonio Chavira’s Desperate Housewives character Carlos Solis has one of the most high maintenance wives on television. Luckily this South Texas native is more than up to the challenge of the role.
Chavira was born in Austin and raised in San Antonio, where he graduated from Robert E. Lee High School. He received his MFA from the highly regarded UC-San Diego's Professional Actor Training Program in 2000, and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter.
Film credits include Touchstone's The Alamo and several independent features. Television credits prior to Desperate Housewives include a series regular role on The Grubbs, recurring roles on Six Feet Under and The Division, and guest star roles on Joan of Arcadia, Kingpin, 24 and JAG, as well as NYPD Blue.
His success on Desperate Housewives has afforded him the opportunity to help in the fight against Breast Cancer, a cause that became highly personal to him at the age of 15, when he lost his own mother to breast and ovarian cancer. He is San Antonio's honorary spokesman for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Chavira's greatest achievement and honor, however, was the birth of his son, Tomas Antonio Chavira, in 2003.