Francisco Muniz is an American actor and stock car driver. In 2008, he put his acting career on hold to pursue an open-wheel racing career, and he competed in the Atlantic Championship. Muniz returned to stock car racing in 2021 before joining Rette Jones Racing for a full season in the ARCA Menards Series in 2023.
Muniz’s family relocated to Knightdale, North Carolina, when he was four years old, where he grew up. Muniz was discovered when he was eight years old at a talent show in Raleigh, North Carolina while performing as Tiny Tim in a local production of A Christmas Carol. Muniz’s parents divorced shortly after, and he moved to Burbank, California, with his mother. Muniz’s mother home-schooled him beginning in sixth grade.
In the 2005 film Racing Stripes, Muniz provided the character voice of Stripes, a zebra who aspires to be a racing equine. In the same year, Muniz appeared as himself in “Mr. F,” an episode of the Fox comedy Arrested Development. Muniz began filming My Sexiest Year, an independent film starring Harvey Keitel, in April 2006.
How did Frankie Muniz make his money?
Frankie Muniz made his money from acting and Rette Jones Racing.