William Armando is a Salvadoran-American actor from Richmond, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. William is known for playing tough characters in films such as Fruitvale Station (2013) and Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice (2014). William's family fled their country during its deadly civil war of the 1980's, and came to the city of San Francisco, California. A few years after having served in the Marine Corps., William enrolled at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, studying the Meisner Technique, under Laura Henry, Peter Lewis and Jim Jarrett.