Carlos Alvarez-Aranyos

Carlos Alvarez-Aranyos (born September 25, 1980) is a political consultant and speechwriter. He is a former political columnist, journalist, screenwriter and actor.

Personal life and education

Born on September 25, 1980, in the Dominican Republic, he was educated in the United States, attending schools in Florida, Connecticut, California, and Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in Political Science. He received his Master's Degree in Political Management from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

He is a son of famed Dominican financier Luis Alvarez Renta and a nephew of noted fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. He was previously engaged to actress Christy Carlson Romano.

He is a former resident of Monaco.

Career

Journalism

At the age of sixteen, he founded the Internet EDition of the Listin Diario, the largest newspaper in the Caribbean. He was recognized for the achievement by Leonel Fernandez Reyna, president of the Dominican Republic.

In 2006, he founded TheColumnist.ORG, where he wrote a weekly political column.

Screenwriting and Acting

As a film writer, he has reportedly written over ten screenplays, although only a project titled The Last Race has been produced.

He also previously worked as an actor (under the stage name Cal Thomas), starring in various films and television programs. His most notable work was in Afterthought, in which he played a serial killer. He also acted in a commercial for Visa.

He was involved in a violent motorcycle crash the day after screen-testing for the lead role in "The [...] Edge 2".

Philanthropy

He rode his Harley-Davidson motorcycle from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. as part of "Run for the Wall", a veteran's movement that organized visits to VFWs, VA hospitals, war memorials and schools across the country, and which culminated with participation in the "Rolling Thunder" parade on Memorial Day 2006.

He traveled to Guinea on behalf of AMADE-Monaco to oversee construction of a school, and to Beirut, Lebanon on behalf of Les Amis du Liban to oversee construction of a Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital.