John Verea comes from the Cuban family. His father decided that the whole family had to move to America, because having a business was a problem after the Cuban Revolution. Verea family decided to take a risky route via Mexico through Arkansas to New Jersey. Later, John in his interview referred to his short period of life in South as extremely rewarding. Back then, in 1964 The United States were still prejudiced towards the people of different race or mixed ethnicities. The school councilor gave John a look and said out loud, “Well, you are neither black nor white. Where will we put you?” It was decided that little Verea had to attend the school for the white kids. However, boys were bullying and beating him up. After a while, John found a way of avoiding such problems. He learnt to read the human behavior, thus the human’s nature and skills of survivor on the enemy’s territory.
In a matter of months John’s father found a job in New Jersey. Finally little Jon found home and started enjoying studying! At the age of seventeen he decided to move to Boston and started attending the business school there. Nevertheless, one event a year later he switched to the acting school. An event, which forced him to do this, was a burglary into his own apartment. Let’s agree, when you are held at the gunpoint everything seems to be different – some priorities change. So, the decision was made – he moved to the New York City and started learning Drama and Acting in the Northeastern University.
He had appeared in a bunch of the TV series as the episode actor. For instance, he took part in the Seduced and Betrayed, Noriega: God’s Favorite, My Little Assasin, Full Eclipse, From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One, Donato and Daughter and A House of Secrets and Lies. At the age of 21, when his carrier didn’t really seem to move forward, Verea decided to visit France. At this point he was extremely attracted by the Motherland of Victor Hugo. Hemmingway and Fitzgerald were walking down Boulevard du Montparnasse. John Verea simply wanted to do the same. A little few months trip turned into a seven year journey – he was constantly looking for the things to do. He opened his own bar, then he started taking photographs and finally he had realized that he had to move back! And so he came back to Los Angeles.
There he made an astonishing carrier: from the waiter in the restaurant to the actor and film producer. He was acting in the Earth 2 (1994-1995), Loch Ness (1996), ER (1996), Selena (1997), Price of Glory (2000), Collateral Damage (2002), The Guardian (2003),Criminal Minds (2006), Raines (2007), Burn Notice (2010), Charlie’s Angels (2011) and Ballers (2016). From 1999 to 2005 John was married to the actress Gabrielle Anwar, with whom he had two kids: Hugo and Paisley Verea . The couple is divorced since 2005.
| Net Worth 2021: | 1.5 million |
