Erik Estrada Trivia

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  • Has his own Official Website that he and his wife answer all their fans emails and talk with them on the forum.
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  • Was the original choice to play 'Carlos' in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
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  • Is the face of D.A.R.E., an organization for a drug-free America.
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  • Left "CHiPs" (1977) in the fall of 1981 over a contract salary dispute with NBC and was briefly replaced by 1976 Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner.
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  • Is a spokesperson for Smoke Signals Communications.
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  • Once went to Thailand to attempt to circumvent the Screen Actors Guild and secure a sub-union job, the only work he could find.
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  • Puerto Rican by ethnicity.
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  • Played in a Mexican "telenovela" (soap opera) in the early '90s. Unlike many characters he's played, Estrada doesn't speak Spanish, so his lines were fed to him over an earphone during production.
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  • When he landed Johnny in "Dos mujeres, un camino" (1993) he had to take 30 straight eight-hour days of Berlitz Spanish lessons before he could begin. Originally slated for 100 episodes, the show went to 400-plus episodes, became the biggest telenovela in Latin-American history and revived Estrada's almost non-existent career.
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  • Daughter, Francesca Natalia, born 5 January 2000 in Burbank, CA
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  • Is now a part time police officer in Arizona and has completed training in 2007. He is now a fully trained officer in Phoenix.
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  • appears as a motorist stopped by two chimpanzee motorcycle highway cops in "CHimPs", a Diet Dr. Pepper ad which is a send-up of his signature TV show "CHiPs" (1977). [March 2002]
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  • Given a star on the Hollywood of Fame.
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