Mateo Fernandez is a Guatemalan-American actor, born and raised in Dallas, Texas.Mateo started attending acting school when he was 7 years old. Shortly after starting lessons, he landed a few commercials. While attending one of his acting school workshops, he was discovered by Protege Entertainment and few weeks later he was signed by Osbrink Agency. The second audition he did after signing for Osbrink was for the role of Adrian Salazar, "the good natured and adorable little brother" of the main character of a new series then called "Love Simon". He landed the role and moved to California for four months to film the series, that is now called Love Victor and will premiere on HULU in June.Mateo will start attending middle school the next school year. When not in school, he spends a lot of his time drawing, producing music, playing drums, learning the guitar, taking photos of his dog Edgar, and writing short stories.