“I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.”

American actor

Michael Peña is an American actor known for a long film career that includes roles in Crash, World Trade Center, Shooter, Observe and Report, Tower Heist, Battle: Los Angeles, End of Watch, and Gangster Squad. He also appeared in American Hustle, The Martian, Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Extinction. On television, he played DEA agent Kiki Camarena in Narcos: Mexico and CIA agent Domingo Chavez in Jack Ryan, and he had the title role in Cesar Chavez. He also starred in A Million Miles Away.