Actor Wilmer Valderrama was born on January 30, 1980 in Miami, Florida. Valderrama  was born to Sobeida and Balvino Valderrama, the owners of a farming equipment rental company, and has a brother and two sisters.

Valderrama and his family moved to his father’s native Venezuela for ten years when Valderrama was only three, and then headed back to the States (Los Angeles, to be precise) when Valderrama was 13. Having grown up largely in Venezuela Valderrama did not know how to speak English, though he learned how quickly by attending school and watching television, most notably I Love Lucy. Valderrama has since said that Rob Thomas, of Matchbox Twenty fame, has helped him learn how to speak English.