[5] Villar also trained at the British American Drama Academy and the National Theatre Institute.
[6] Villar began his professional acting career in 2003 as a fellow of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C.
In 2007, he starred as Demetrius in the Public Theater's production of A Midsummer Night Dream for their Shakespeare in the Park program.
[7] That Fall, he starred in the off-Broadway production The Brothers Size opposite Brian Tyree Henry.
[8] In the following three years, he was part of the acclaimed casts of the regional production Boleros for the Disenchanted, the musical Coraline at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the Shakespeare-adaptation The Age of Iron with the Classic Stage Company, and After the Revolution with Playwrights Horizon.
Villar made his Broadway debut in 2011 as part of the cast of the American production of War Horse.
[14] In July 2015, Villar debuted his character Fernando Vera, an eccentric Dominican gangster, in the series premiere of USA's Mr.