Biography

Wilmer Calderon was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and moved to Brandon, Florida, near Tampa at the age of two. He learned to speak Spanish at home from his parents and English from watching 1, rue Sésame (1969). At the age of five, he started playing baseball, a year-round sport in Florida, and it quickly became his major preoccupation throughout his school years. In his senior year in high school, he set a single-season record for stolen bases. Continuing on to Marshall University, it soon became apparent that another discipline was calling him.

In his spare time, Calderon appeared in several school plays, and eventually he had to choose between following a career in baseball or giving himself full time to acting. He landed three lines in the Florida-filmed feature The Walking Dead (1995), earned his Screen Actors Guild card, and was off and running. He had a recurring role in the TV series Les aventuriers du paradis (1996) and appeared in the telefilms Summer of Fear (1996) and Serments mortels (1997). Among Calderon's other television credits are guest appearances on Veronica Mars (2004), The Shield (2002), Les Experts : Miami (2002), 24 heures chrono (2001), New York Police Blues (1993), Urgences (1994), and Profiler (1996). His feature credits include Wes Craven's Cursed (2005), and Venice Underground (2005).

Calderon is also active on stage, and has appeared with the Actor's Circle Theatre. His mentor has been another native of Santurce, Benicio Del Toro.

- IMDb mini biography by: Katherine Orloff