‘Mayans M.C.’s Clayton Cardenas To Star Opposite Kate Del Castillo In ‘The Cleaning Lady’ Season 3

Rosy Cordero
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EXCLUSIVE: Coming off five successful seasons on FX’s Mayans M.C., Clayton Cardenas has set up his next project.

Cardenas has joined the cast of Fox’s The Cleaning Lady for Season 3 in the role of Dante, Ramona’s (Kate del Castillo) trusted lieutenant who is intense and authoritative with a dangerous edge. Unconcerned with anything but protecting the business, Dante grows increasingly aggravated with Thony (Élodie Yung), who constantly undermines their operations.

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Del Castillo recently joined the series alongside Santiago Cabrera, who plays her brother Jorge Sanchez.

Based on the hit original Argentine series, The Cleaning Lady follows Thony De La Rosa, a whip-smart Cambodian doctor who comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and attempts to push her down, Thony refuses to be marginalized and instead takes matters into her own hands. Forced to use unconventional measures to protect her family and save the ones she loves; Thony further crosses the moral line as she gets deeper entwined in the criminal underbelly of Las Vegas.

The series also stars Adan Canto, Martha Millan, Sebastien & Valentino LaSalle, Sean Lew, Faith Bryant and Eva De Dominic.

Miranda Kwok developed the series and co-showruns alongside fellow executive producer Jeannine Renshaw. Rose Marie Vega and Paola Suarez also are executive producers. Shay Mitchell and David Dean Portelli are executive consultants.

Cardenas is best known for his role as Angel Reyes on FX’s biker drama Mayans M.C., which recently wrapped its final season. He previously played Diego Castillo on the Emmy-winning series American Crime and has appeared on series such as Law & Order: SVU, Snowfall, FBI and S.W.A.T.

In addition to acting, Cardenas is a spoken-word poet and painter whose large-scale canvas work has caught the attention of collectors across.

He is repped by IAG and The Rosenzweig Group.

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