[1][2][3][4][5] His mother is actress Teresa Yenque,[6][7] and he took up acting as a teenager after she enrolled him in theater classes.

[8][3] Yenque co-founded East Los Angeles Society of Film & Arts.

[10] In 2001, Yenque and fellow actors Marisol Padilla Sanchez, Majandra Delfino, and Jacob Vargas won Outstanding Latino Cast in a Feature Film for Traffic at the ALMA Awards.

He said that because the acting roles he was doing gave latinos bad representation, he began to donate money to a Tijuana orphanage.

[8][3] In 2020, Yenque helped raised funds during a virtual reading of Flowers Behind the Mountain by Barbara Bennion, benfiting the Artes Para un Mejor Mañana foundation.