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front of an audience for the first time, when asked to read a poem in front of his first-grade schoolmates. Rivera went both to elementary and junior high school at
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Rivera was born on August 4, 1946, in Utuado. He is the son of David Rivera
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Ever since, he has been semi-retired from acting, due in part to Puerto Rican television networks down-scaling the number of telenovelas produced in the
Caribbean island beginning in the late 1980s. Rivera later became a politician for the statehood-claiming New Progressive Party, but he has since
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Rivera got an offer to either establish himself permanently in Mexico or work as an actor in the South
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Rivera got married, at the young age of 18, to Leonor MarĂn, during 1964. Their children include son Luis Daniel Rivera, Jr. (born in 1965) and daughters
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or "PNP", a political party which advocates for a possible, future Puerto Rican statehood (as a 51st state of the United States). Rivera, however, says that, since retiring as a member of that party, he prefers not to talk publicly about political issues or ideologies.
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retired from that as well and taken a basic non-political standing every time he is asked about politics on interviews ever since. He has returned to acting from time to time.
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