His maternal great-great-uncle was early film and animation producer
Amadee J. Van Beuren (his great-grandfather's brother). Another maternal great-grandfather, Alejandro Berea Rodrigo, was a Spanish consul, and his great-great-grandfather was conductor and instrumentalist, Canuto José Berea Rodríguez. His father's family, surnamed Bujuklian, is Armenian. His mother is of Galician Spanish and French-Irish descent.