Jose Yenque

Yenque was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to Peruvian immigrant parents.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} His mother is actress Teresa Yenque,^[6][7] and he took up acting as a teenager after she enrolled him in theater classes.^[8][3]

Yenque co-founded East Los Angeles Society of Film & Arts.^[5]

In 1995, Yenque did a play called El Cano with Ed Trucco.^[9] In 1999, on the set of The Blue Diner, Esra Gaffin said Yenque had prepped for a different role, mentioning he had the ability from previous roles to handle several types of firearms.^[10]

In 2001, Yenque and fellow actors Marisol Padilla Sanchez, Majandra Delfino, and Jacob Vargas won Outstanding Latino Cast in a Feature Film for Traffic at the ALMA Awards.^[11][12] In 2007, Yenque won Ambassador of the Year at the 11th International Hispanic Awards. He said that because the acting roles he was doing gave latinos bad representation, he began to donate money to a Tijuana orphanage.^[13] In 2012, he founded Arts for a Better Tomorrow, bringing change to orphanages in Baja California.^[8][3]

In 2020, Yenque helped raised funds during a virtual reading of Flowers Behind the Mountain by Barbara Bennion, benfiting the Artes Para un Mejor Mañana foundation.^[14] Yenque starred alongside Paco Mufote in Contratiempo.^[15]