Jacob Vargas

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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.

Most Popular Jacob Vargas Trailers

Total trailers found: 57

Little Nikita Trailer (1988)

17 March 1988

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.

The Wendell Baker Story Trailer (2005)

03 August 2005

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.

Death Race Trailer (2008)

22 August 2008

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport.

Crossing Point Trailer (2016)

03 May 2016

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.

Cesar Chavez Trailer (2014)

28 March 2014

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.

Ernest Goes to Camp Trailer (1987)

22 May 1987

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.

Love Lies Bleeding Trailer (2008)

15 January 2008

A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.

Heaven Is for Real Trailer (2014)

16 April 2014

The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven.

Peel Trailer (2019)

07 February 2019

After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development.

Crimson Tide Trailer (1995)

12 May 1995

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat.

Road Dogz Trailer (2002)

26 March 2002

"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A.

The Hills Have Eyes 2 Trailer (2007)

22 March 2007

A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.

The 33 Trailer (2015)

06 August 2015

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

Gas Food Lodging Trailer (1992)

10 July 1992

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town.

My Family Trailer (1995)

03 May 1995

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s.

Sleep Dealer Trailer (2008)

10 December 2008

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.

Selena Trailer (1997)

21 March 1997

In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas.

Jarhead Trailer (2005)

04 November 2005

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action.

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie Trailer (2006)

06 August 2006

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.

Next Friday Trailer (2000)

12 January 2000

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.

Dr. Dolittle 2 Trailer (2001)

22 June 2001

A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce.

Get Shorty Trailer (1995)

20 October 1995

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films.

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life Trailer (2016)

07 October 2016

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.

The Principal Trailer (1987)

18 September 1987

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for.

Traffic Trailer (2000)

27 December 2000

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home.

Devil Trailer (2010)

16 September 2010

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.

Flight of the Phoenix Trailer (2004)

17 December 2004

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out.

Go for Sisters Trailer (2013)

08 November 2013

Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer — just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.

The Public Trailer (2019)

05 April 2019

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.

Kimi Trailer (2022)

10 February 2022

A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it.

Beyond Skyline Trailer (2017)

26 October 2017

Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.

Are We Done Yet? Trailer (2007)

04 April 2007

Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids.

Santa Fe Trailer (1997)

25 June 1997

A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.

American Me Trailer (1992)

13 March 1992

During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars.

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake Trailer (1990)

11 November 1990

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.

Dragonfly Trailer (2002)

22 February 2002

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

The Tell-Tale Heart Trailer (2016)

05 April 2016

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.

Seeds of Tragedy Trailer (1991)

15 June 1991

Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.

Truth Be Told Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

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.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Trailer (1997)

25 April 1997

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.

The Death and Life of Bobby Z Trailer (2007)

23 July 2007

A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord.

Mi Vida Loca Trailer (1994)

08 June 1994

Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood.

Last Resort Trailer (1986)

31 March 1986

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.

Airborne Trailer (1993)

17 September 1993

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.

The Odds Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.

Red Sky Trailer (2014)

12 March 2014

Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.

Water & Power Trailer (2014)

02 May 2014

Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise like prince's through the city's political and police ranks to become players in a complex and dangerous web of the powerful and corrupt of Los Angeles.

Princess of the Row Trailer (2020)

27 November 2020

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.

Plan B Trailer (2021)

18 June 2021

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.

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story Trailer (1986)

31 March 1986

A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.

Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother Trailer (2004)

18 September 2004

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.

Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer Trailer (2021)

17 April 2021

Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round) perform every song from the 2015 album Money Shot.

The Hi-Lo Country Trailer (1998)

30 December 1998

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.

Satanic Hispanics Trailer (2022)

25 November 2022

When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead.

EDNY Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.

The Journey of a Female Comic Trailer (2014)

16 May 2014

The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.

Bobby Trailer (2006)

05 September 2006

In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F.