Name	Erik Estrada
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	March 16, 1949
Place of Birth	Mesa, Arizona,
Famous for

In 2001, Estrada landed a role on the daytime drama, The Bold and the Beautiful as Eduardo Dominguez.In 2002, he played a Hispanic game show host on the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire with Hilary Duff.

He has also had a regular role doing voiceovers for the Cartoon Network show Sealab 2021, which also gave him the opportunity to parody himself. The show has featured several CHiPs homages and his character, First Mate Marco Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is played as a stereotypical Latin macho character. He also appeared in an episode of another Cartoon Network show, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, which features a character named Moltar who has an obsession with Estrada and CHiPS, as a guest. Estrada has also guest-starred on the children's cartoon Maya and Miguel.

Estrada has appeared in music videos, such as Eminem's music video "Just Lose it". There is a band named after him (Estradasphere) based in Santa Cruz, California. Estrada also made guest appearances on The Wayans Bros., Unhappily Ever After, the Nickelodeon comedy Drake & Josh, NBC's Scrubs and ABC's According to Jim.

Estrada has done a long-running series of infomercials as a national spokesman for National Recreational Properties, selling real estate property in such locations as Siskiyou County, California; Lake Shastina, California; California City, California; Ocean Shores, Washington; Colorado; and recently, Tellico Village, Tennessee and Bella Vista, Arkansas.

Estrada has appeared in recent years in a number of reality television shows. In 2004 he starred in both the second season of The Surreal Life and in Discovery Health Body Challenge. He also starred in the short-lived CBS reality show, Armed & Famous. His experience from the show led him to become a reserve officer for the Muncie Police Department in Muncie, Indiana. Estrada was the Grand Marshall for the Krewe of Rio in Mardi Gras 2007. On April 19, 2007, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Estrada threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Seattle Mariners' Turn Back The Clock game on Sunday, July 29, 2007, entering the ballpark riding a police motorcycle. His pitch was caught by Mariners reliever Arthur Rhodes. In 2008, Estrada appeared in Husband for Hire, a television movie starring Nadine Velazquez and Mario López. Estrada has endorsed Republican John McCain in the 2008 United States Presidential election.