Tony Plana is a Cuban American actor and director, best known as Ignacio Suarez on ABC’s Ugly Betty. Other television credits include Admiral Ed Parker on CBS’ Madam Secretary, Victor Gutierrez on ABC Family’s The Fosters, Benito ‘Benny’ Lopez on Amazon’s Alpha House, Alejandro Perez on ABC’s Desperate Housewives, Omar on FOX’s 24, and Roberto Santiago on Showtime’s Resurrection Blvd.

Film credits include A Miracle in Spanish Harlem, Primal Fear, Lone Star, Nixon, JFK, Salvador, and An Officer and a Gentleman.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as Rudy Reyna/Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Winter Garden Theatre) and Sarge in The Boys of Winter (Biltmore Theatre); Off-Broadway, as Agustin in The Happiest Song Plays Last (Second Stage Theatre) and Miguel in Rum and Coke (Public Theater); and regionally, as Leonato in Free For All: Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre) and Viceroy/Padre Nuñez in The Sins of Sor Juana (Goodman Theatre).