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Arteta – “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – El Capitan Theatre – Hollywood, CA, USA, 2014 – Photo Credit: Izumi Hasegawa / PRPhotos.com
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Date of Birth: August 29, 1965
Ethnicity: * father – Peruvian * mother – Spanish
Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican film and television director. He is known for his films Chuck & Buck , The Good Girl , Youth in Revolt , and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day , among others.
His father is from Peru. His mother is from Spain. He was raised partly in Costa Rica and Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. He has stated :
I identify myself as Puerto Rican, but with the caveat that, when I grew up here, people didn’t think of me as a Puerto Rican, because of my accent, sort of a mix of Peruvian/Spanish accents. Which is pretty different than Puerto Rican…
I identify myself as Puerto Rican, but with the caveat that, when I grew up here, people didn’t think of me as a Puerto Rican, because of my accent, sort of a mix of Peruvian/Spanish accents. Which is pretty different than Puerto Rican…
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