Luis Carazo

Luis Carazo
Screenshot of Luis Carazo from "Excelsior" (E3x01).
General Information
Full name	Luis Enrique Carazo-Velez
Pronouns	he/him
Born	Cartagena, Colombia
Nationality	United States
Residence	Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Profession	Actor
Critical Role works	Exandria Unlimited: Calamity The Legend of Vox Machina Candela Obscura Narrative Telephone
Internet Presence
Instagram	Luis.carazo
Twitter	@luiscarazo
Facebook	luiscarazovelez

Luis Carazo is an actor appearing in Exandria Unlimited: Calamity and The Legend of Vox Machina, Season Three as Zerxus Ilerez, and in the second chapter of Candela Obscura as Marion Collodi.

Background

Luis Carazo was born in Cartagena, Colombia, and emigrated to the United States with his Mexican-Colombian family when he was three years old. He grew up in Riverside, California. Luis is the third of four brothers.

Luis first got acquainted with Dungeons & Dragons when he was around five but played his first "powerful" game of D&D at sixteen. He also played in a home game with Marisha Ray (her first game of Dungeons & Dragons), Taliesin Jaffe, and Matthew Mercer, as their Dungeon Master.

Other works

Luis has appeared in multiple roles on television, film, and commercials. In the tabletop community, he is perhaps best known as "Nines Rodriguez" in LA by Night. Luis began playing in streamed tabletop roleplaying games through Taliesin, who recommended Luis to L.A. by Night. He also played alongside Michelle Nguyen Bradley in Outbreak Undead: United States of the Dead (previously Outbreak Undead: Rag & Bone) with Zac Eubank's Hyper RPG.

Critical Role Productions

About his role in Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, Luis said, "I knew that I wanted to explore an Oath of Redemption paladin in this setting with a potential confrontation with a Betrayer. I wasn't even sure that we would encounter them. I didn't know where we were in the timeline. But I hoped and I asked for it. I was like, 'I'd like to hopefully have an encounter with a Betrayer.'"

• The Legend of Vox Machina - Zerxus Ilerez
  • "Hell to Pay" (LVM3x04)
  • "Cloak and Dagger (LoVM)" (LVM3x07)
  • "Thordak (LoVM)" (LVM3x09)

Player Characters

• Zerxus Ilerez (Exandria Unlimited: Calamity)
• Marion Collodi (Candela Obscura, Circle of Needle and Thread)

Zerxus Ilerez

Marion Collodi

Trivia

• As a child, he sleepwalked and was frightened of being abducted by aliens.
• Bard is his favorite Dungeons & Dragons class to play, particularly the College of Lore.
  • Before his appearance on Critical Role, in 2010 or 2011, Luis had played with Taliesin Jaffe, Marisha Ray, Chloe Dykstra, Sean Manzano, and Brian Prisco on a two-years and a half campaign run under Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. Matthew Mercer and Zach Hanks were co-DMing. His (first) character for this campaign was a half-orc bard named "Lune Clearcloud".

References

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