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Jacob Vargas
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Jacob Vargas
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1971-08-18,Michoacan, Mexico
Gender
Male
Biography
Jacob Vargas (born August 18, 1971) is an Indigenous Latino American actor. He is of Native Mexican descent. Jacob 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.

Filmography

The Hi-Lo Country

6.049

The Hi-Lo Country
1998-12-30

7.088

Traffic
2000-12-27

6.53

Next Friday
2000-01-12

6.321

Death Race
2008-08-22

5.905

Sleep Dealer
2008-12-10

6.499

Get Shorty
1995-10-20

Flight of the Phoenix

6.005

Flight of the Phoenix
2004-12-17

The Wendell Baker Story

5.063

The Wendell Baker Story
2005-08-03

6.6

Mi Vida Loca
1994-06-08

The Hills Have Eyes 2

5.586

The Hills Have Eyes 2
2007-03-22

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie

4.327

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
2006-08-06

6.075

Airborne
1993-09-17

Seeds of Tragedy

7.25

Seeds of Tragedy
1991-06-15

Love Lies Bleeding

6.1

Love Lies Bleeding
2008-01-15

6.1

Devil
2010-09-16

7.437

My Family
1995-05-03

Gas Food Lodging

6.26

Gas Food Lodging
1992-07-10

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

6.7

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990-11-11

6.8

Road Dogz
2002-03-26

6.568

Dragonfly
2002-02-22

6.029

Go for Sisters
2013-11-08

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

5

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story
1986-03-31

6.218

Cesar Chavez
2014-03-28

Heaven Is for Real

6.804

Heaven Is for Real
2014-04-16

3.714

Last Resort
1986-03-31

The Journey of a Female Comic

6.2

The Journey of a Female Comic
2014-05-16

6.054

Little Nikita
1988-03-17

6.69

Jarhead
2005-11-04

5.303

Beyond Skyline
2017-10-26

0

The Odds
2010-01-01

Satanic Hispanics

5.854

Satanic Hispanics
2022-11-25

6.399

The 33
2015-08-06

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

6.171

The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007-07-23

6.5

Water & Power
2014-05-02

The Tell-Tale Heart

5.2

The Tell-Tale Heart
2016-04-05

5.122

Crossing Point
2016-05-03

7.333

Truth Be Told
2002-01-01

7.715

Selena
1997-03-21

6.478

The Public
2019-04-05

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

6.244

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997-04-25

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

6.921

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2016-10-07

Are We Done Yet?

5.843

Are We Done Yet?
2007-04-04

Ernest Goes to Camp

5.273

Ernest Goes to Camp
1987-05-22

6.459

Peel
2019-02-07

Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother

3

Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother
2004-09-18

7.437

American Me
1992-03-13

5.326

Dr. Dolittle 2
2001-06-22

6.45

The Principal
1987-09-18

Princess of the Row

5.9

Princess of the Row
2020-11-27

4.167

Santa Fe
1997-06-25

7.185

Crimson Tide
1995-05-12

4.401

Red Sky
2014-03-12

6.422

Bobby
2006-09-05

6.194

Kimi
2022-02-10

Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer

0

Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer
2021-04-17

6.165

Plan B
2021-06-18

7

E.D.N.Y.
2003-01-01

Come and Take It Day

7

Come and Take It Day
2001-02-22

Huck and the King of Hearts

6.25

Huck and the King of Hearts
1994-02-02

The Virgin of Juarez

6.875

The Virgin of Juarez
2006-03-13

5.543

Fatal Instinct
1993-10-29

0

Endgame
2018-11-13

0

"Jarhead" Diaries
2006-03-07

8.109

Six Feet Under
2001-06-03

7.029

Numb3rs
2005-01-23

7.386

The Pretender
1996-09-19

7.734

Cold Case
2003-09-28

7.313

CSI: NY
2004-09-22

6.369

Clueless
1996-09-20

7.482

Burn Notice
2007-06-28

7.538

Full House
1987-09-22

6.396

Kingpin
2003-02-02

7.3

Moonlight
2007-09-28

7.109

Hunter
1984-09-18

7.814

ER
1994-09-19

7.46

Medium
2005-01-03

8.086

Max Steel
2000-02-25

Greetings from Tucson

10

Greetings from Tucson
2002-09-20

7.714

Malibu Shores
1996-03-09

6.25

Complications
2015-06-18

8.405

The Mentalist
2008-09-23

8.378

Young Justice
2010-11-26

Sons of Anarchy

8.407

Sons of Anarchy
2008-09-03

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

7.025

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017-09-17

Marvel's Luke Cage

6.912

Marvel's Luke Cage
2016-09-30

7.1

Blue
2012-06-11

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

6.3

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995-03-12

The Proud Family

7.706

The Proud Family
2001-09-15

6.867

Colony
2016-01-14

7.972

Mayans M.C.
2018-09-04

7.248

JAG
1995-09-23

6.803

Hand of God
2014-08-28

5.8

Surfside Girls
2022-08-18

National Treasure: Edge of History

6.711

National Treasure: Edge of History
2022-12-14

6.5

Mosaic
2018-01-22

GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event

6.9

GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
2020-08-10

7.434

Mr. Iglesias
2019-06-21

7.903

Psych
2006-07-07

Solar Opposites

7.798

Solar Opposites
2020-05-08

7.2

The Good Guys
2010-05-19

7.68

CSI: Miami
2002-09-23

6.333

Watching Ellie
2002-02-26