At LAByrinth, he met his future wife, actress Liza Colón-Zayas. Zayas also played a corrupt police officer in the 2006 feature film 16 Blocks and an NYPD officer in 2007’s Michael Clayton. He was featured in the 2010 independent film Shadowboxing, which appeared on the film festival circuit. He was also cast in Sylvester Stallone’s feature film The Expendables and The Brothers Strause’s film Skyline. In 2012, Zayas played Ernie Trask, a hotel super, in the twelfth episode of season 1 of the hit CBS crime thriller Person of Interest.