1971-08-18 ( 53 years old ) in Michoacan, Mexico
Jacob Vargas (born August 18, 1971) is a Mexican-American actor. He began his acting career when he was discovered breakdancing in a schoolyard at age 12. His introduction to acting came with a bit part as a breakdancer on the hit TV show Diff'rent Strokes (1978).
His first movie role was in the TV movie The Children of Times Square (1986). He started to appear in more films including Last Resort (1986), Ernest Goes to Camp (1987), The Principal (1987), Little Nikita (1988), American Me (1992), and Gas Food Lodging (1992). In 1995, he won the very first ALMA Award (for Emerging Artist of the Year) for his work in both Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca (1993) and Gregory Nava's My Family (1995).
He next starred in films including Crimson Tide (1995), Get Shorty (1995), Selena (1997), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), and the cult favorite Next Friday (2000) as Ice Cube's nemesis, Joker.
His next role was Tijuana cop Manolo, 'Benicio del Toro"s partner in Steven Soderbergh's Academy Award- winning film Traffic (2000), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award and another ALMA Award.
In 2001, he executive produced and starred in the independent film Road Dogz (2002). He wrote, directed and acted in EDNY (2003). He also co-produced and starred in the stage play "Latinologues", which ran on Broadway in 2005 and is available on DVD.
He voiced for Pepito in Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). Next, he played Sammi the chef in John Moore's Flight of the Phoenix (2004), Marine sniper Juan Cortez in Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes' war drama Jarhead (2005), a straight-arrow DEA agent in the action drama The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2006), a politically charged busboy Miguel in Emilio Estevez's historical drama Bobby (2006), and a psychologically tortured drone pilot Rudy Ramirez in Alex Rivera's sci-fi political love story Sleep Dealer (2008).
He had roles in The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007), Are We Done Yet? (2007), Death Race (2008), Cesar Chavez (2014, Heaven is For Real (2014), The Tell-Tale Heart (2016), Plan B, (2021), and Kimi (2022).
His major TV roles are as Bob on Surfside Girls, Tony Medina on Mr. Iglesias, Horacio on Mosaic, Domingo Colon on Marvel's Luke Cage, Allesandro Montez on Sons of Anarchy and later on Mayans M.C., Guillermo on Moonlight, Ernesto Tiant on Greetings from Tucson, and Dr. Roberto Martinez on Max Steel. He had recurring roles on Colony, Blue, and Six Feet Under.
He has also guest starred on a number of shows including National Treasure: Edge of History, The Mentalist, Burn Notice, Psych, Numb3rs, Medium, CSI: NY, Cold Case, The Pretender, JAG, ER, Full House, and Hunter.
He has voiced for characters on animated series including Solar Opposites, Young Justice, and a recurring role on Tarantula.
Movies
Satanic Hispanics
2022-11-25
Kimi
2022-02-10
Plan B
2021-06-18
Princess of the Row
2020-11-27
The Public
2019-04-05
Peel
2019-02-07
Beyond Skyline
2017-10-26
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2016-10-07
Crossing Point
2016-05-03
The Tell-Tale Heart
2016-04-05
The 33
2015-08-06
The Journey of a Female Comic
2014-05-16
Water & Power
2014-05-02
Heaven Is for Real
2014-04-16
Cesar Chavez
2014-03-28
Red Sky
2014-03-12
Go for Sisters
2013-11-08
Devil
2010-09-16
The Odds
2010-01-01
Sleep Dealer
2008-12-10
Death Race
2008-08-22
Love Lies Bleeding
2008-01-15
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007-07-23
Are We Done Yet?
2007-04-04
The Hills Have Eyes 2
2007-03-22
Bobby
2006-09-05
National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
2006-08-06
Jarhead
2005-11-04
The Wendell Baker Story
2005-08-03
Flight of the Phoenix
2004-12-17
Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother
2004-09-18
EDNY
2003-01-01
Road Dogz
2002-03-26
Dragonfly
2002-02-22
Truth Be Told
2002-01-01
Dr. Dolittle 2
2001-06-22
Traffic
2000-12-27
Next Friday
2000-01-12
The Hi-Lo Country
1998-12-30
Santa Fe
1997-06-25
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997-04-25
Selena
1997-03-21
Get Shorty
1995-10-20
Crimson Tide
1995-05-12
My Family
1995-05-03
Mi Vida Loca
1994-06-08
Airborne
1993-09-17
Gas Food Lodging
1992-07-10
American Me
1992-03-13
Seeds of Tragedy
1991-06-15
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990-11-11
Little Nikita
1988-03-17
The Principal
1987-09-18
Ernest Goes to Camp
1987-05-22
Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story
1986-03-31
Last Resort
1986-03-31
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