Damian Robert Chapa (born October 29, 1963) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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Damian Chapa was born in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. to a father of Mexican and Italian descent and a mother of German, Irish and Native American descent. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Chapa played the part of evangelist Leroy Jenkins in the 2002 film The Calling. He played Miklo Velka in Taylor Hackford's Blood In Blood Out. He appeared as Ken Masters in Raúl Juliá's final film Street Fighter, based on the video game Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.
In 2011, Chapa was arrested in Madrid on allegation of raping former girlfriend Roxanna Foell, whom he had met in Germany in 2006 at the Berlin Film Festival. He was later transferred to a Munich jail, and released after seven weeks. Chapa filed a $1.3 million lawsuit for damages against Foell in a California court, and the case was later disposed by judge Malcolm Mackey.
