Jacob Vargas
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.
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking...
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Jarhead
as Juan CortezJarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting...
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Heaven Is for Real
as MichaelThe true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips...
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American Me
as Paulito - Age 15During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the...
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Traffic
as Manolo SanchezAn exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For...
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After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible...
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Kimi
as Glasses ThugA tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with...
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Devil
as RamirezA group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
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Get Shorty
as Yayo PortilloChili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to...
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Next Friday
as JokerA streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner...
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Dragonfly
as VictorA grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
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The Hills Have Eyes 2
as CrankA group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic...
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Selena
as A. B. QuintanillaIn this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in...
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Dr. Dolittle 2
as Pepito (voice)A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get...
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The 33
as Edison 'Elvis' PeñaBased on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners...
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Little Nikita
as MiguelRoy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy,...
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Are We Done Yet?
as Mike the PlumberNewlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two...
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The Principal
as Arturo DiegoBurglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick...
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Plan B
as Pastor PedroAfter a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker...
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Bobby
as MiguelIn 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and...
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Flight of the Phoenix
as SammiWhen an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to...
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Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a...
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Red Sky
as Jorge 'P-Dawg' VasquezDisgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters...
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The Public
as uncreditedAn act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in...
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Airborne
as SnakeGood-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in...
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Sleep Dealer
as Rudy RamirezSet in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global...
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Crossing Point
as JesusA young American couple in love, Michael and Olivia vacation in Baja, but things take a...
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My Family
as Young JoseTraces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and...
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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
as Animation Voice (voice)A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and...
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Beyond Skyline
as GarciaDetective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When...
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The Wendell Baker Story
as Reyes MoralesLuke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly...
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Last Resort
as CarlosGeorge Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company....
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Satanic Hispanics
as El JefeWhen police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor....
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z
as Jorge EscobarA DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence:...
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Ernest Goes to Camp
as Bubba VargasErnest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance...
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Peel
as ChuckAfter his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state...
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Cesar Chavez
as Richard ChavezA biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the...
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Water & Power
as uncreditedTwin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los...
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Road Dogz
as Danny Pacheco"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East...
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The Hi-Lo Country
as Delfino MondragonAn intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a...
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Love Lies Bleeding
as Detective Billy JonesA struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their...
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Gas Food Lodging
as JavierNora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a...
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Mi Vida Loca
as ErnestoMousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic...
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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as MiguelAfter a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist,...
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National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
as Tijuana Cop 2 / Announcer / CharlotteA celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel...
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The Odds
as Sergio VargasA couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.
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Go for Sisters
as NavajasBernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart,...
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Santa Fe
as JesusA cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after...
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Princess of the Row
as DonaldThe inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only...
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Seeds of Tragedy
as Cholo #2Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
as AdamsA haunting account of a tormented man, haunted by the heart of a man he murdered, who...
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Truth Be Told
as GonzalezRayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden...
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Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother
as Vincent EnanoMeet Blanche Monroe aka The Evil Stepmother, an out-of-work daytime drama queen. When her...
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Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer
as BartesianPuscifer (Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round) perform every song from the 2015...
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Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story
as Enrique MendozaA kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential...
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JAG
as Corporal CortezHarmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge...
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Psych
as Juan LavaThanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a...
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Full House
as uncreditedAfter the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise...
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The Mentalist
as Chief Rick AnayaPatrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and...
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Sons of Anarchy
as Allesandro MontezAn adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle...
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Medium
as Eduardo GarciaAllison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people...
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CSI: NY
as Luis TorresFollow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified...
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Cold Case
as Angelo Rivera (2009)The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned...
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ER
as DiabloER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...
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Young Justice
as Sebastian Cardona / Cisco Ramon (voice)Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.
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Six Feet Under
as Manuel 'Paco' BolinWhen death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of...
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Colony
as CarlosIn the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with...
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Prince Luis (voice)Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Marvel's Luke Cage
as Domingo ColonGiven superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes...
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The Pretender
as Javi PadilloRaised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can...
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Mayans M.C.
as Allesandro MontezSet in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a...
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The Proud Family
as Punch Alto (voice)Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's...
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Burn Notice
as Omar HernandezA formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate...
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as MarioA diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
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Numb3rs
as uncreditedInspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and...
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Moonlight
as GuillermoMick St. John is a captivating, charming and immortal private investigator from Los Angeles, who...
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Mosaic
as HoracioExplore the psychological underpinnings of love and murder in a small mountain resort town while...
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National Treasure: Edge of History
as RafaelWhile searching for history's greatest treasure, Jess Valenzuela unburies her family's secret past.
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Clueless
as uncreditedCLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series...
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GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
as Tony OchoaWorlds collide in this special event featuring familiar faces, surprise cameos and stories of...
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Hunter
as Emilio MoralesHunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred...
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Mr. Iglesias
as Tony MedinaHilarious high school teacher Gabriel Iglesias tries to make a difference in the lives of some...
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Malibu Shores
as uncreditedMalibu Shores is an American primetime teen drama/soap opera that aired on Saturday Night at...
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Blue
as RoyBlue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past...
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Kingpin
as uncreditedKingpin is an American crime drama television series which debuted on the NBC network in the...
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Surfside Girls
as BobQuick wits lead to daring discoveries for beachside besties Sam and Jade as they sleuth out...
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Complications
as RamonJohn Ellis, a disillusioned suburban ER doctor, who finds his existence transformed when he...
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Max Steel
as Dr. Roberto Martinez (voice)A teenage boy with accidental body enhancements fights the enemies of peace as a super-powered...
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