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Ricardo Martin Morales Arevalo (born 8 April 1998) is an Australian actor.

Early Life Morales was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the youngest son of a Filipino mother Nanely Madera Morales née Arevalo and Salvadoran father Oscar Eduardo Martin Morales Porteo. Morales has an older brother director Marco Fernando Morales Arevalo, an older half-brother Oscar Eduardo Martin Morales Stemp and an older half-sister Andrea Maricela Morales Stemp from Morales' fathers previous mariage. Morales is of Filipino and Spanish descent from his mothers side and Salvadoran and Spanish from his fathers side.

Morales spent most of his childhood in the suburb of Algester, Brisbane, Queensland. Morales was raised in a well-off family, hs father being an IT consultant for Dimensional Data and mother being a nurse at Greenslopes Private Hospital. Morales attended Our Lady Of Lourdes Primary School and then St Laurence's College. Getting good grades in primary school made Morales' parents believe he was going to be someone smart such as a lawyer, dentist, surgeon and even a journalist, but Morales' performing talent made him be destined for stardom. Always having a thing for the performing arts Morales' wanted to be an actor from an early age as well as a dancer and musician, but Morales' dreams started to fade as he became shier and shier. It was not until his first year at highschool in which Morales' believe his true calling in life was to be an actor as he performed rabbit for a drama class. Drama was Morales' favourite thing about school quoting " I hated highschool, it was a boring dull place in which I learnt things that didn't intrest me in the slightest, but when I saw 'Drama' on my timetable school became less lame and a little funner." Morales' drama teacher in year 9, Mrs. Eagleson inspired Morales' to start acting at an early age after performing an iprovised monolouge.

Resources (Ricardo Morales interview, 2012)