Jacob Vargas

ACTOR, PRODUCER

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Jacob Vargas 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). 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 later starred in films such as Selena (1997), Get Shorty (1995), American Me (1992), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) and the cult favorite Next Friday (2000) as Ice Cube's nemesis, Joker. He later shined as 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. He then made us laugh as Sammy the chef in John Moore's Flight of the Phoenix (2004) and brought depth to Marine sniper Cortez in Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes' war drama Jarhead (2005). In 2006 he starred as a straight-arrow DEA agent opposite Laurence Fishburne and Paul Walker in the action drama _Death and Life of Bobby Z, The (2006)_ and joined an all-star cast as a politically charged busboy in Emilio Estevez's historical drama Bobby (2006) and played a psychologically tortured drone pilot in Alex Rivera's sci-fi political love story _Sleep Dealer, The (2006)_. Not satisfied with just being labeled as an actor, he has also been focusing his talents on writing and producing through his production company, Third Son Productions. In 2001 he executive produced and starred in the independent film Road Dogz (2002). He also co-produced and starred in the stage play "Latinologues", which ran on Broadway in 2005 and is available on DVD. Through Third Son Productions, he is currently developing several feature film and television projects. - IMDb Mini Biography By: A. Nonymous

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Jacob Vargas’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Jacob Vargas on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1993 to 2019. See the full graphs of the number of Jacob Vargas movies released per year from 1993 till 2019.

Top Genres

Jacob Vargas works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 28% of Jacob Vargas movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Jacob Vargas worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Jacob Vargas has worked on is 6.3.

6.3 / 10

Jacob Vargas's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Crime,Drama,Thriller
Traffic (2000)

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.

7.6/10147 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

A good-natured high school teacher working at his alma mater works with gifted but misfit and disinterested students.

7.1/1030 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Tarantula is an animated half hour comedy written by Carson Mell (Silicon Valley, Eastbound and Down) and executive produced by Danny McBride and Rough House Pictures. Set at the Tierra ...

6.5/1030 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

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.

6.3/1085 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama
Peel (2019)

A coming-of-age story about a young man whose child-like innocence has a healing quality on all the damaged characters he meets on his journey to rebuild his broken family.

6.1/10101 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Animation
Max Steel (2000)

A teenage boy with accidental body enhancements fights the enemies of peace as a super-powered secret agent.

6.1/1030 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Romance,Sci-Fi
Sleep Dealer (2008)

The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.

6/1090 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
The Wendell Baker Story (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.

5.5/1099 min

Available in 7 platform(s).