Jose Joaquin Noriega

Jose Joaquin Noriega-Rios was born on March 14, 1989, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is the youngest of five siblings, with two older sisters, and two older brothers. At the age of seven, he modeled for Avon's Back To School print campaign in Puerto Rico. When he was fourteen years old, he took his first acting class taught by Yamaris Latorre, where he met Maria Coral Otero and became close friends with. A year later, he moved to Orlando, Florida where he first appeared on TV as a featured rider during a small segment of the Walt Disney Christmas Parade. He attended multiple high schools including, Academia Bautista de Puerto Nuevo in Puerto Rico, and later, Colonial High School and Timber Creek High School in Orlando, Florida.