Paul Rodriguez (skateboarder)

Paul Martin Rodriguez, nicknamed P-Rod, is an American professional street skateboarder and actor, born on 31 December 1984 in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, the son of the actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez and Laura Martinez. His classmates gave him the nickname when he was about eleven, and he received his first skateboard as a Christmas gift at twelve after seeing a group of skateboarders at his new school. He attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys and was recruited at fourteen to the team of a local shop, One Eighteen. He has won eight medals at the X Games, four of them gold, the most recent first place in Los Angeles in July 2012, and he once slept with his first Street League Skateboarding trophy.