‘Psych’ Star James Roday Announces ‘Long Overdue’ Decision to Start Going by His Birth Name
James Roday Rodriguez! For the first 21 years of his career, the Psych star went by his first name and a made-up last name. But now, he has started to use his birth name professionally in honor of his Mexican heritage.Rodriguez, 44, revealed in an interview with TVLine on Tuesday, July 14, that he came to the decision after his father told him stories about his grandparents and their experiences in the 1930s and ‘40s.“I was deeply moved, but also very shaken by a lot of the stuff that I heard — stuff that I was one or two generations removed from and never needed to reconcile or even stop and think about,” he explained.