The Puerto Rican actor David Zayas has been married to the American actress and playwright Liza Colón-Zayas since 1998. They have a son named David Zayas Jr.
David Zayas is best known for his role as Angel Batista in the American crime drama television series Dexter and Enrique Morales in HBO’s prison drama series Oz. Zayas’ wife, Liza Colón-Zayas, is best known for her performance as Tina Marrero in the comedy series The Bear.
Who is David Zayas’ wife, Liza Colón-Zayas?
The American actress Liza Colón-Zayas was born in the Bronx borough of New York in 1972. Colón earned her bachelor’s degree in theater from SUNY Albany. Liza is of Puerto Rican descent. She began her acting career by appearing in off-Broadway shows. She entered the mainstream theatre and wrote, produced, and acted in a one-woman show titled Sistah Supreme, in which she appears as a growing Latina woman in New York 1970s - 1980s.
In television, she has appeared on series such as Sex and the City, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Blue Bloods, Dexter, and others. She had a recurring role on the short-lived OWN drama, David Makes Man. She later appeared as Rita in the show In Treatment.
In 2022, Colón had a significant turn in her career and rose to fame when she appeared as Tina Marrero in Hulu's critically acclaimed drama comedy series The Bear. For her role in the series, she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Imagen Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series in 2024. She became the first Latina to win a Primetime Emmy Award in this category.
In a June 2023 interview with Shondaland, Colón-Zayas talked about how her husband encouraged her to pursue her acting career despite her feelings of discouragement. “There was always something—I don’t know if it was the ancestors or just something inside me that knew I had something to share, and that kept me going,” she says. “My LAByrinth community kept me going, and I have the best husband, David Zayas, an actor, and he kept me going.”
FAQs about David Zayas
David Zayas is 62 years old.
Yes, David Zayas and Liza Colón have a son together named David Zayas Jr.
David Zayas is 5 feet 10.5 inches tall.
