Jacob Vargas
出生 : 1971-08-18, Michoacan, Mexico
略歴
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.
Glasses Thug
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
Pastor Pedro
After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.
Bartesian
Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round) perform every song from the 2015 album Money Shot.
Donald
The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Chuck
After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he must forge his own path and attempts to find his lost brethren.
Garcia
突然現われた異星からの侵略者に、地球はわずか3日で征服された。そんな中、ロス市警の刑事マークは、息子を追って自らも宇宙船に吸い込まれる。そこで彼は、脳を部品として移植されながら、なお人間としての理性を保つエイリアンの生体ロボットと出会い、その協力で内部から宇宙船を破壊することに成功する。宇宙船は内戦の続くラオスに墜落、脱出したマークら生存者たちは、現地の反政府組織のアジトに身を寄せる。
Animation Voice (voice)
A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and as you expect trouble follows.
Jesus
A young American couple in love, Michael and Olivia vacation in Baja, but things take a frightening turn when Olivia is kidnapped by drug dealer, who demands that Michael smuggle a backpack full of cocaine-stolen from a rival cartel-over the border into the U.S. within twelve hours or else Olivia will be killed. A good Tijuana Cop is on the trail, as Michael navigates the treacherous underworld of Mexico, and he himself becomes a force to be reckoned with...
Adams
A haunting account of a tormented man, haunted by the heart of a man he murdered, who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness.
Edison 'Elvis' Peña
2010年8月5日、チリのサンホセ鉱山で落盤事故が起こり、坑道の奥深くに33人の従業員が閉じ込められてしまう。食料の備蓄は3日分しかなく救出活動も難航する中、地下700メートルの避難所ではマリオをリーダーに、従業員たちが少しずつ食料を分け合いながら救援を待ち続ける。次第に生存が絶望視されていく中で17日目、33人の生存を外にいる救出員たちが確認し、大型ドリルを使った救出作戦が決行される。
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
Michael
ネブラスカ州の田舎町で牧師を務める傍ら小さな修理会社を経営しているトッドは、3人の子どもに恵まれ幸せな毎日を過ごしていた。ある日、3歳の長男コルトンが穿孔虫垂炎で生きるか死ぬかの瀬戸際だったものの、奇跡的に回復を遂げる。やがてコルトンは、両親に天国に行ってきたと言い始める。
Richard Chavez
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
Jorge 'P-Dawg' Vasquez
アメリカ海軍戦闘機パイロットだったブッチは、忠実に任務を遂行したにもかかわらず不名誉な退役を強要された過去があった。彼は今ではネバダ州を中心に、映画やテレビの撮影用航空スタントと相談役をしながら暮らしていた。一方、大佐に昇進したブッチの元上官ウェブスターは、爆弾兵器レインメーカーがテロリストの手に渡ったと報告を受ける。
Ramirez
高層ビルで男が墜落死し、現場に急行した刑事ボーデンは、ロザリオを握りしめた死体に違和感を感じつつも、状況から自殺と判断する。ちょうどそのころ、同じビルのエレベーターが突然停止し、閉じ込められた5人の男女が、照明が消えるごとに1人ずつ無残な死を遂げるという奇怪な事態が起きていた。
Sergio Vargas
A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.
Rudy Ramirez
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
Gunner
２０１２年、アメリカ。孤島の刑務所ターミナル・アイランドでは、囚人がマシンガン搭載の改造車を運転するカー・レースが開催されていた。このレースは“デス・レース”と呼ばれ、通算５勝を挙げた者には自由が与えられる一方、敗者には無惨な死が訪れるという過酷なものだった。レースの模様は中継で世界中に配信され、人気を博していた。ある日、妻殺しの濡れ衣を着せられ服役することになった元レーサーのエイムズは、冷酷な女刑務所長ヘネシーから、４勝達成後に死亡した覆面レーサー、フランケンシュタインに成りすましてレースに出場するように強要される。エイムズは勝てば自由の身となり、生き別れた娘に再会できることから、レースに挑む決意を固める。
Detective Billy Jones
A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.
Mike the Plumber
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
Crank
A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
Miguel
1968年、ロサンゼルスのアンバサダーホテルで起きたロバート・F・ケネディ暗殺事件をきっかけに、引退したドアマン、ホテルマネージャー、ラウンジ歌手、バスボーイ、美容師などの人生が交錯する。
Co-Producer
A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials.
Tijuana Cop 2 / Announcer / Charlotte
A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials.
Juan Cortez
代々海兵隊員を輩出してきた家系に生まれ、自身も父と同じ道を歩むべく、1988年に18歳で海兵隊に志願した青年、アンソニー・スウォフォード。過酷な訓練を耐え抜き、第7海兵連隊第2大隊司令部中隊付きSTAの前哨狙撃兵として1990年の夏、湾岸戦争の為サウジアラビアへと派遣された。使命感に燃える若き海兵隊員たちとアンソニーだったが、派遣先で待っていたのは果てしない砂漠と訓練、そしてひたすら待機する日々だった。＜1990年に中東へと派兵されたアメリカ海兵隊員、アンソニー・スウォフォードの湾岸戦争体験記『ジャーヘッド/アメリカ海兵隊員の告白』（2003年出版）を原作としている。監督は『アメリカン・ビューティー』のサム・メンデス。一兵士の視点を通し、これまでの戦争映画とは違い、戦闘シーンがほとんど無く、変わった切り口で現代の戦争を描いている。表題になっているジャーヘッドとは、海兵隊員の刈り上げた頭がジャー（蓋のついたガラス瓶）のように見える事からつけられた蔑称である。＞
Reyes Morales
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
Sammi
1事故。 10人の生存者。 文明から3,000マイル。 飛行機crash落事故からの生存者のグループは、ゴビ砂漠の真ん中で失われ、救われる可能性はありません。 彼らの唯一の希望は、「不可能」を達成することです。plane落した飛行機の残骸を使って新しいデバイスを構築し、砂漠から抜け出すことです。 貨物飛行機パイロットのフランクタウンズと彼の副操縦士AJがモンゴルのタンサグ盆地に派遣され、キャンセルされた炭化水素探査作業のスタッフを避難させたとき、それはすべて始まりました。 このふたりは、この日常的な使命が生死の闘争になり、人生に対するすべての見方を完全に変えるとは考えていません。
Vincent Enano
Meet Blanche Monroe aka The Evil Stepmother, an out-of-work daytime drama queen. When her stunning stepdaughter (Snow White) is discovered by a hotshot Hollywood agent, Blanche wreaks her revenge.
Writer
A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.
Director
A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.
A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.
Danny Pacheco
"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days hanging out and playing basketball. But everything is about to change...when one of them gets involved with a dangerous drug dealer, all their lives are at risk and they must make some life and death decisions.
Executive Producer
"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days hanging out and playing basketball. But everything is about to change...when one of them gets involved with a dangerous drug dealer, all their lives are at risk and they must make some life and death decisions.
Gonzalez
Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to outsmart the crooked cops who are very eager to see her disappear.
Pepito (voice)
動物と話ができるお医者さんとして有名になった、ドクター・ドリトルは大忙し。そこへ野生のビーバーからSOSが入った。たくさんの動物の住み処である森が破壊されそうだという。森の伐採をやめさせるには、絶滅寸前品種の熊の繁殖地であることを証明しなければならない。そこで、ただ一頭残った野生のメス熊のお婿さん候補を探すのだが、見つかったのは、魚とりも満足にできないサーカス育ちの曲芸熊アーチ―だった。森と動物たちを救うため、何とか2頭の熊をカップルにしようと、ドリトル先生は大奮闘！そして、動物vs人間の対決が迫る！
Manolo Sanchez
交錯する3つのドラッグ・ストーリーで巨大麻薬コネクションの全貌を暴き出す社会派ドラマ。マイケル・ダグラス、ベニチオ・デル・トロ、ドン・チードルら豪華キャストが共演。
Joker
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.
Delfino Mondragon
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
Jesus
A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.
Ramon
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.
A. B. Quintanilla
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.
Yayo Portillo
マイアミで取立屋を行っているチリ・パーマーは無類の映画好き。ボスが急死したため、彼らの組織は悪党レイの傘下に入ることになったが、チリを嫌うレイは彼に取り立ての難しい仕事をまわす。飛行機事故で死んだ事になっているクリーニング屋レオの足どりを追ってベガスに赴いたチリは、レオの情報と引き換えにハリウッドのB級映画プロデューサー、ハリーからの借金回収を頼まれる。だが愛人カレンの家に押し入ったチリとハリーは意気投合し、いっしょに映画を作る話で盛り上がる。だがハリーは、ヤバイ商売で有名な会社から渡されていた映画資金を使い込んでいたのだ……。
Sonarman #2
「トップガン」のトニー・スコットが挑むポリティカル・サスペンス。クーデターが勃発しロシア情勢は一気に悪化、反乱軍が核施設を制圧した事で世界は第三次大戦の危機を迎えた。米海軍はベテランの艦長と新任の副長を乗せた原潜アラバマを派遣するが、核攻撃準備の指令をめぐって艦長と副長は対立してしまう……。
Young Jose
メキシコからアメリカに移住した、あるヒスパニック系一族の60年にも渡る歴史を描く。製作総指揮を『地獄の黙示録』のフランシス・フォード・コッポラ監督が担当。
Ernesto
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
Snake
Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to navigate the perils of high school—avoid the bullies, get the girl, and win a little respect.
Javier
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
Paulito - Age 15
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
Miguel
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
Miguel
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, including "sleepers," agents under deep cover awaiting orders. Roy interviews a high school lad, Jeff Grant, an applicant to the Air Force Academy. In a routine background check, Roy discovers that Jeff's parents are sleepers. He must see if Jeff is also a spy, confront the parents yet protect them, and catch his nemesis. Meanwhile, the Soviets have sent their own spy-catcher, the loner Karpov, to reel in Scuba. Alliances shift; it's cat and mouse.
Arturo Diego
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
Bubba Vargas
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
Carlos
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
Alberto
A loving father faces different obstacles in a desperate attempt to attend his daughter's championship volleyball game.
