![]() ![]() For RDS he also directed the play Greedy, and wrote and directed the one-act play Sustenance. He took on leading roles in Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Extinction which he produced with his theatre company Red Dog Squadron. Rodriguez started his acting career starring in various theatrical productions, including Three Sisters, A Respectable Wedding, and Severity's Mistress. In the same interview, he stated regret that he "sold out my heritage in about 15 seconds" and announced that going forward he was going to use his full legal name of James Roday Rodriguez. In order to book his first job, he legally changed his middle name, David, to Roday (from an Anton Chekhov play), and omitted Rodriguez from his screen name. The characters he read for up until that point either were not written with a Latino background or required a non-white "Mexican" appearance. In a July 2020 interview, Rodriguez explained the decision was mainly driven by producers and casting directors feeling his Caucasian appearance clashed with his Spanish-Latino family name. At the age of 22, he selected the professional name James Roday. Īt New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing, Rodriguez studied theatre and earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts. ![]() Rodriguez's father is a retired Air Force Master Sergeant and used to be the regional catering manager of Taco Cabana. His father, James "Jim" Rodriguez, is of Mexican descent, and his mother, Deborah Collins, is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. He attended Taft High School in San Antonio. Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, as James David Rodriguez. He most recently starred in A Million Little Things, which debuted in 2018, playing Javier "Gary" Mendez. He is best known for starring on the USA Network series Psych as hyper-observant consultant detective and fake psychic Shawn Spencer. ![]() James Roday Rodriguez (born James David Rodriguez, April 4, 1976) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. ![]()
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