It’s impossible to forget this character from Lost! Richard is one of the integral faces of the series because he was shrouded in mystery, because if there’s one constant on the island, it’s that no matter what era the series is in, Richard is there and he always has the same face. In other words, it doesn’t age. for what how This is one of the questions that the authors answered.
Appearing for the first time outside the island to attract the character of Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell), we find her on the island next to Ben, whose right-hand man leads the “others”, the “natives” of the island. At first completely confident and thinking he has it all figured out, Richard gradually loses his cool as the Man in Black leads him on a quest to kill Jacob, or when he confronts the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 who begin time travel.
One of Lost’s most mysterious characters
Richard and Locke
Nestor Carbonell’s role Richard Alpert keeps his secret until the sixth and final season, and more precisely in its episode 9. There we learn that he arrived on the island in the 19th century, from a shipwreck with a prisoner, Black Rock. His meeting with Jacob, the protector of the island, allows him to acquire magical powers. Unable to revive his beloved woman, he chose immortality.
Nestor Gaston Carbonell was born in New York to Cuban parents and met Matthew Fox, the future Jack in Lost, at a prep school in Deerfield, Massachusetts. A coincidence worthy of an episode of Lost!
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He began his career in 1989 with small appearances on television, but rose to fame thanks to a duet with Brooke Shields in the sitcom Susan!, which was relatively unknown in France. He stayed there from 1996 to 2000, then cinema opened the door for him to star in Jack the Dog (2001) and Mankind (2003), directed by Bobby Roth.
He then returned to mostly television before being hired on Lost. He was only supposed to guest star as he had just been hired as a series regular on Reed, but was canceled after 13 episodes, leaving Carbonell free to continue as Richard. During the series, he is seen as the mayor of Gotham City in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.
Immortal in Lost, what happens next?
After Lost, Nestor Carbonelli alternated between film (Christeros, The Dark Knight Rises, Imperium) and series (Ringer, State of Affairs) before returning to the role of the sheriff on Bates Motel.
From 2019 to present, he plays fictional UBS TV host Yanko Flores on The Morning Show with Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston. However, he had time to participate in the medical series Pulse (2025) and Hiroyuki Sanada in Shōgun (2024) Shōgun (2024).
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