NEW YORK (AP) – Conrad Ricamora’s acting career is on fire of late. He may want to thank his genes.
He’s on ABC’s hot new drama “How To Get Away with Murder” and he’s also singing on Broadway in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic musical “The King and I.” Not bad for a guy who took his first acting class on a whim in his junior year of college.
Then again, Ricamora recently found out that he’s related to a pretty famous person in acting circles – none other than William Shakespeare.
“Isn’t that crazy?” the Filipino-American actor said recently over coffee before taking the stage in “The King and I” as the doomed lover Lun Tha.
Ricamora and his boyfriend were consulting the genealogy website Ancestry.com when he discovered his ninth great grandfather on his mother’s side married Judith Shakespeare, the Bard’s youngest daughter.