Kirk Acevedo Joins Cast of Arrow Season 6 as New Villain
Oz actor Kirk Acevedo is the latest addition to the cast of Arrow season 6.
According to Deadline, Acevedo will play Richard Dragon a.k.a. Ricardo Diaz, a “hardened ex-con,” expert in hand to hand combat who’s yet to be defeated. The character has just been released from prison, he served a sentence that convicted him of a crime he didn’t commit.
Ricardo Diaz set himself on the mission of taking over Star City’s criminal underworld.
The villain had previously been teased during last month’s San Diego Comic-Con. Executive producer Marc Guggenheim had teased the character from the comic during the Arrow panel.
Acevedo has worked in TV shows like Fringe and Band of Brothers, as well as movies like The Thin Red Line and more recently, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.