Steve Cardenas

Steve Cardenas
Born	May 29, 1974 (1974-05-29) (age 35) Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, U.S.

Stephen Antonio Cardenas (born May 29, 1974) is an American actor and martial artist, perhaps most noted for playing Rocky DeSantos in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series.

Cardenas was born at Langley Air Force Base, in Hampton, Virginia, U.S. and is of half Mexican descent.^[1] His character, Rocky, replaced Jason Lee Scott (played by Austin St. John) as the Red Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series, and he later became the Blue Ranger for Power Rangers: Zeo. Cardenas left the Power Rangers series after the Zeo season, deciding to focus his attention on his karate school in Southern California.

Cardenas started training in martial arts when he was about 12 years old. He appeared at the 2007 Power Morphicon convention along with other veteran cast members, including Austin St. John, Walter Jones, Johnny Yong Bosch, and Daniel Southworth.^[2] He also appeared at Anime Expo 2009 along with fellow veteran Power Rangers actors, Walter Emanuel Jones, Karan Ashley, Blake Foster, Barbara Goodson, and Robert Axelrod, who are best known for their voice actor roles as Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd, Catherine Sutherland, Selwyn Ward, Patricia Ja Lee, Nakia Burrise, and Daniel Southworth.

Filmography

Film

• Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997) .... Rocky DeSantos
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995) .... Rocky DeSantos/The Red Ranger

Television

• "Power Rangers: Turbo
  • Shift Into Turbo: Part 3 (1997) .... Rocky DeSantos
  • Shift Into Turbo: Part 2 (1997) .... Rocky DeSantos
  • Shift Into Turbo: Part 1 (1997) .... Rocky DeSantos
• "Power Rangers: Zeo" (1996) TV Series .... Rocky DeSantos/Blue Zeo Ranger
  • It Came from Angel Grove (1996) .... Lord Henry
• "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" (1993) TV Series .... Rocky DeSantos/The Red Ranger (1994-1995)
  • Wild West Rangers: Part 1 (1995) .... Rocko/Red Wild West Ranger
  • Wild West Rangers: Part 2 (1995) .... Rocko/Red Wild West Ranger

References

External links

• Steve Cardenas at the Internet Movie Database
• Steve Cardenas at TV.com
• ((http://www.youtube.com/nopinkspandex))
• ((http://www.youtube.com/user/nopinkspandex#play/user/0852FDDD455122C7))