Ache Hernandez is a Cuban-Canadian actor, singer, songwriter, and painter. He was born Héctor Hernández in Poblado Cabaiguán, Cuba in 1986, and relocated to Canada in 2008.
Hernandez is best known for playing Gabriel Mendoza in Surviving Escobar: Alias JJ (2017) and for playing Kyheem in Star Trek: Discovery (2020-2021).
His acting credits also include guest spots on television shows such as Designated Survivor (2018), Taken (2018), Suits (2018), Bad Blood (2018), Jett (2019), Private Eyes (2020), Hudson & Rex (2022), and Strays (TV Series).
He also appeared in the 2020 short film Bonecrusher.
As a singer/songwriter, he is known as Ache or Ache Mundo.