Robert M. Rey

Roberto Miguel Rey Júnior (born October 1, 1961) is a Brazilian American plastic surgeon. He was featured on the E! reality series Dr. 90210. Rey has appeared on many TV shows as a medical correspondent, including The View and Good Morning America, he has also contributed to The New York Times and appeared on the cover of Forbes Brazil. Roberto Miguel Rey Júnior was born in São Paulo, Brazil to engineer Roberto Miguel Rey, an American-born (of Mexican descent) naturalized Brazilian and Avelina Reisdörfer, a Brazilian of German descent.Rey was raised by a single mother in São Paulo, Brazil. He told a New York Times reporter that he spent his youth running with a crowd of teenage hoodlums and committing petty crimes. The family were poor all through his childhood. He said he slept on sleeping bags on a broken dining room table. But he explained that his dream of coming to America and becoming a doctor gave him determination to make it come true. "Walking through the ghetto I was raised in, I knew I was going to go to the United States, go to Harvard, be a plastic surgeon, move to Beverly Hills, become a member of Congress and then become surgeon general," he said.Invited by writer Orson Scott Card, who at the time was a Mormon missionary in Brazil, to live in the United States, Dr. Rey and his three siblings took up the offer. They moved to Utah in 1974, when he was 12. In Utah and later when he and his siblings lived on a ranch in Arizona, Dr. Rey said, he was "a nerd" who studied almost all the time. But he also acted in television commercials to earn the money for school.He became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1980 and has appeared in national television advertisements, most recently in a Carl's Jr. commercial in which he advises a chicken to undergo breast augmentation surgery. Rey was the medical consultant on the American film Se7en, and made a cameo appearance in the Bollywood movie, Americanizing Shelley. He is also an avid martial artist with black belts in Taekwondo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.