Draft:Diego Romero (actor)

Diego Romero is a native New Mexican (born 1980) actor and photographer. He is known for acting, and night sky (starscape) photography, and currently resides in New Mexico.

Background
Diego Romero was born and raised in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He attended West Las Vegas Public Schools from elementary through high school and New Mexico Highlands University for college. He identifies as a Chicano, and has Genízaro, Diné, and Pueblo ancestry, as well as Spanish ancestry from the early Spanish colonizers of New Mexico.

Art and Acting Career
Diego found a love for acting from a young age thanks to the Missoula Children's Theater, as well as doing background in television and movie productions that were shooting in the Las Vegas, New Mexico area. His first experience as a child background actor was the made for TV movie "Miracle In The Wilderness", which he describes as his "worst experience ever on set" due to the weather conditions, and treatment of background actors. As a Mass Communications undergrad, he continued with local theater and background performances, in addition to stand-in work. After graduate school, and while working as a multimedia developer, Diego returned to background and stand-in work, eventually expanding into small roles in television and movies, such as both seasons of the docudrama series "Gunslingers" ; which led to him becoming a member of SAG-AFTRA.

Diego is also a multimedia developer, a writer and director, as well as an award-winning photographer. The state of New Mexico has over a dozen of his photographs hanging in state buildings throughout New Mexico as part of the Art in Public Places permanent collection. He was drawn to photography in part due to his maternal grandfather letting him play and learn with an old Mamiya 35mm. As a child he was frustrated with not being able to fully capture the night sky due to the limitations of the film cameras he had access to. Eventually digital, DSLR, cameras caught up to his vision and he has become a prolific night sky photographer, which he refers to as "Starscapes", as he works to incorporate landscape details into the long exposure photos.