Luis Valdez is an actor, writer and film director, as well as a playwright. He is best known for the play Zoot Suit and one of the greatest movies, La Bamba. Founding El Teatro Campesino is another one of Valdez’s great well known accomplishments. Valdez was able to accomplish these amazing feats despite his humble beginnings. Luis Valdez was born on June 26, 1940 in Delano, California. The son of migrant farmworkers, he is the second eldest of ten sisters and brothers. Workers camps is where he lived. At age six, Valdez began working the fields. Like many migrant working families, the Valdez family moved with the seasonal crop growth. Constant moving meant he would constantly change schools. For example, Wikipedia said, “Due to this peripatetic
