Alexio Barboza

Alexio Barboza was born in Manhattan, New York to actress, Laura Carrington, and famous fashion and jazz photographer, Anthony Barboza. His mother, a native of Flatbush, Brooklyn, was born to two Guyanese immigrants in the 1950s having African, Indian, Hong Kongese, Bangladeshi, Scottish, and Dutch descent. His father, is a native to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and hails from a mixed background stemming from the islands of Cape Verde, consisting of Portuguese, Senegalese, Sri Lankan, Armenian, and German Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Alexio grew up in an artistic environment where he developed a fascination for the arts and a fondness for singing and acting. Brought under-wing and guided by his talented mother (who herself is known for her roles in General Hospital, One Life to Live, and Lionel Richie's Hello music video in the 1980s), Alexio followed in his mother's footsteps and was cast in his first theatrical production at the age of nine in Mandela (2004), an oratorio at the Crossroads Theater in New Jersey. His early professional career propelled him as an Equity actor to perform on the Broadway stage as Young Simba in Disney's The Lion King (2004-2005), in Off-Broadway shows working with directors such as Stephen Schwartz, and thrice performing at Carnegie Hall; one of those performances being a Fundraiser production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (2005), playing the part of Jerome alongside stars such as Reba McEntire, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Alec Baldwin, Lillias White, Jason Danieley, Dylan Baker, and Conrad John Schuck. Throughout his higher education at Albright College in Pennsylvania, and at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Alexio received coaching and tutelage in acting techniques and vocal skills from a plethora of highly-trained professors and individuals. He graduated a Summa Cum Laude in 2016 with a Bachelors Degree in Theatre and History. In 2017, he was the lead in a commercial filming in Barcelona that featured the ili Translator device for the Japanese Company, Logbar Inc. Throughout the following years he gained credits to join the film actors' union, SAG-AFTRA, and subsequently in 2019 he made a quick appearance in the second season of the Amazon Video Series, The Tick (2019), as the A.E.G.I.S. Bagpiper who finds himself 'brutally' saved by the bewildered hero, Tick, whom mistakes the Bagpiper's instrument for what he calls a "screeching creature." Later that year he played the part of Nathan, the featured friend of Crosby, in the thriller/dark comedy short film, Princess Cut (2019), directed by award winning director Elaine del Valle. Presently, he resides in New York, and is pursuing his career in acting, both on stage and in film, as well as expressing his creative passions alongside friends and professionals while producing independent films.