Jacob Vargas

Jacob Vargas

Birthday: 1971-08-18

Place of birth: Michoacan, Mexico

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0889846

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Selena

Score: 7.7

Truth Be Told

Score: 7.5

My Family

Score: 7.5

American Me

Score: 7.4

Crimson Tide

Score: 7.2

Traffic

Score: 7.1

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Score: 6.9

Heaven Is for Real

Score: 6.7

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

Score: 6.7

Seeds of Tragedy

Score: 6.7

Jarhead

Score: 6.7

Road Dogz

Score: 6.6

Mi Vida Loca

Score: 6.6

Dragonfly

Score: 6.5

Get Shorty

Score: 6.5

The Principal

Score: 6.5

The Public

Score: 6.5

Water & Power

Score: 6.5

Next Friday

Score: 6.4

Bobby

Score: 6.4

Peel

Score: 6.4

The 33

Score: 6.4

Gas Food Lodging

Score: 6.3

Death Race

Score: 6.3

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Score: 6.2

Plan B

Score: 6.2

Kimi

Score: 6.2

The Journey of a Female Comic

Score: 6.2

Cesar Chavez

Score: 6.2

Love Lies Bleeding

Score: 6.2

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

Score: 6.2

The Hi-Lo Country

Score: 6.1

Devil

Score: 6.1

Little Nikita

Score: 6.1

Go for Sisters

Score: 6.0

Flight of the Phoenix

Score: 6.0

Princess of the Row

Score: 6.0

Airborne

Score: 5.9

Sleep Dealer

Score: 5.9

Are We Done Yet?

Score: 5.8

Satanic Hispanics

Score: 5.6

The Hills Have Eyes 2

Score: 5.6

Huck and the King of Hearts

Score: 5.5

Ernest Goes to Camp

Score: 5.3

Dr. Dolittle 2

Score: 5.3

Beyond Skyline

Score: 5.3

Crossing Point

Score: 5.2

The Wendell Baker Story

Score: 5.0

The Tell-Tale Heart

Score: 4.6

Red Sky

Score: 4.4

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie

Score: 4.2

Last Resort

Score: 3.5

Santa Fe

Score: 3.4

Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother

Score: 1.0

Come and Take It Day

Score: 0.0

E.D.N.Y.

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

The Odds

Score: 0.0

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Sons of Anarchy

Score: 8.4

The Mentalist

Score: 8.4

Young Justice

Score: 8.4

Max Steel

Score: 8.2

Six Feet Under

Score: 8.1

Mayans M.C.

Score: 8.0

Psych

Score: 7.9

ER

Score: 7.8

Solar Opposites

Score: 7.8

Cold Case

Score: 7.8

The Proud Family

Score: 7.8

Full House

Score: 7.5

Mr. Iglesias

Score: 7.5

Burn Notice

Score: 7.5

Medium

Score: 7.5

The Pretender

Score: 7.4

CSI: NY

Score: 7.4

JAG

Score: 7.3

The Good Guys

Score: 7.3

Malibu Shores

Score: 7.3

Moonlight

Score: 7.3

Hunter

Score: 7.2

Blue

Score: 7.1

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Score: 7.0

Numb3rs

Score: 7.0

Marvel's Luke Cage

Score: 6.9

GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event

Score: 6.9

Colony

Score: 6.9

National Treasure: Edge of History

Score: 6.8

Hand of God

Score: 6.7

Mosaic

Score: 6.5

Complications

Score: 6.3

Kingpin

Score: 6.3

Clueless

Score: 6.2

Surfside Girls

Score: 6.0

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Score: 6.0

Greetings From Tucson

Score: 0.0