Mateo Price

State of New York Identification

ID #31 Jul 2020 20:16

Summary

Name Mateo Javier Ruiz Price Aliases Compliant Yes Gender Male Birthdate February 29, 1976 Age 44 (or 11) Height 5'7" Build Sturdy Eyes Dark Hair Dark Residence La Rivage Apartments, Battery Park City, Manhattan Employment NYPD Aviation Unit Technician Parents Josefa Ruiz (birth mother, status unknown) Colin and Rianna Price (adoptive parents) Siblings Odessa Price (adoptive sister) Marital Status Single Children Reinette Price First Scene Last Scene Profile Mateo Javier Ruiz Price was the child of an illegal immigrant who got sent back to Argentina, but he was adopted by the Prices in Texas and raised as their own. His adoptive mother died in childbirth, leaving him and his father to raise his baby sister, Odessa. He became a police technician after graduating with a degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M and eventually transferred to the Aviation Unit in the NYPD, where he repairs and keeps police helicopters running. He maintains a close friendship with the Ashford-Khans, and still calls his sister back home in Texas often. He is also the single father of a 12 year old girl. The mother is no where to be seen and isn't really talked about.

portrayed by Oscar Isaac

Background

Born to a refuge from Argentina, Mateo Javier Ruiz pretty much just knows his birth mother's name. He doesn't remember what she looks like, and hasn't investigated into what happened to her after she was deported, but he had an otherwise happy childhood adopted at less than a year by Colin and Rianna Price. He loved his parents dearly and was especially close to his mother. His parents had been unable to conceive, but kept trying and eventually succeeded. When he was 8, he welcomed a baby sister, Odessa, named after their home city. However, Rianna did not survive the birth. This left him and his father to raise Odessa on their own, but they did the best job they could. He was very close to and protective of his baby sister.

Eventually, though, he went to college at Texas A&M. Colin, who worked with the FBI, had hoped that his son would follow him into the profession, but Mateo had a stronger affinity with electrical engineering. He loved helicopters and cars, but quickly discovered when he graduated that his degree gave him the opportunity to follow the line of work he wanted and make his father proud. He joined the Dallas police force, with the intention of becoming a fleet technician. It worked. Back in Texas he had a close relationship, that probably would have ended in marriage— if the prospective bride hadn't left him. It was a reverse of the usual. She left him and then showed up later with a kid that she said was his and left her in his custody and then disappeared again. Mateo never tried to track her down. After getting all the paperwork figured out to offically adopt her he changed the girl's name legally to Reinette, a more Spanish version of Rianna, in honor of his dead mother. His sister Odessa and Reinette were very close, and still exchange phone calls.

Then he moved to the NYPD to join the Aviation Unit as a technician, working closely with Shahid Khan (later Ashford-Khan). He's technically also a sworn officer and can make arrests, and often helps out in situations that need a fluent Spanish speaker, but he mostly works behind the scenes rather than on the streets.

Psych Profile

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Daughter

Portrayed By

Lillianna Valenzuela

Birthdate: March 11, 2008
Age: 12
Nickname: Mi reina (my queen) (by her father), and Ray-nie.

Notes

She is an adorable and sweet 12 year old, raised solely by her father, though her Tia Dessa helped when they still lived in Texas. Now she has a baby sitter. She's fluent in both English and Spanish, and plays a little piano like her aunt and father, but she wants to learn other instruments.