- Born
- Nickname
- Willy J
- 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 both the 1996 Tony award and Drama Desk award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Won Broadway's 1996 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for "Rent."
- Reprised his role as Angel in the major motion picture release of "Rent" directed by Chris Columbus.
- He reprised his role as Angel in the London production of Rent and had just recently left the cast last October.
- Debuted in Broadway theatre in the hit musical, "RENT", as part of the Original Broadway Cast. He played Angel Dumott Schunard, a gay man and drag queen with AIDS for two years before quitting on November of 1997.
- His character from Rent, Angel, is modeled after the character Schaunard, from La Boheme. The original character's name re-appears as Angel's last name, Schunard.
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