EXCLUSIVE: Innovative Artists Entertainment has signed Bobby Soto in talent, lit, comedy, and crossover.
Soto was most recently seen in the Amazon feature film, A Million Miles Away, starring opposite Michael Peña and Rosa Salazar. From director Alejandra Marquez Abella, the bio-drama tells the real-life story of José M. Hernández, a Mexican American astronaut who was formerly a migrant farm worker. The project is available to stream via Prime Video.
Before that, Soto starred in the Disney/Searchlight feature film, Flamin’ Hot, directed by Eva Longoria. As part of the ensemble cast, Soto traveled to Washington, D.C., for a special screening of Flamin’ Hot for the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, both of whom hosted the celebration.
On the TV front, he recently appeared in CBS’s FBI: International, and Seasons 1 and 2 of the Netflix hit crime drama, Narcos: Mexico, created and developed by Jose Padilha and Eric Newman.
Additional film credits include The Listener with Tessa Thompson and director Steve Buscemi, and Scott Teems’ The Quarry, opposite Michael Shannon and Shea Whigham. Soto played the lead of David Ayer’s film The Tax Collector opposite Shia LaBeouf, which takes Ayer back to his film roots of End of Watch and Training Day.
Innovative has also recently signed Taylor Polidore Williams, Brandee Evans, Shanola Hampton, and Melissa Joan Hart; as well as lit signings including Debra Fisher, Peter Noah, Hugh Dillon, and Christian Donovan, and Meg Deloatch.
Soto continues to be managed by Tony Lipp at Anonymous Content.
