Jacob Vargas
Date of Birth: 18 Aug 1971
Country: Mexico
Biography: 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 "Arnold bouya wa ninkimono" (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
Total Credits at Criticker: 24 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (24)
- Treasure Protectors (2023) - S1 E10
- Point of No Return (2023) - S1 E7
- Prison Break (2023) - S1 E8
- A Meeting with Salazar (2023) - S1 E9
This action-adventure features a group of air crash survivors who are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the "impossible": building a new plane from the wreckage. (20th Century Fox)
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Chili Palmer (Travolta) is a Miami loan shark who's sent to Los Angeles to collect on a gambling debt from film producer Harry Zimm (Hackman). Chili soon discovers that loansharking was the perfect training ground for making movies...though you have to be ruthless to make it in Hollywood. (MGM)
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This biographical drama charting the extraordinary career and tragic slaying of pop singing sensation Selena. (Warner Bros.)
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On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so. (imdb)
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A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violence and crime ridden high school. (imdb)
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As part of a routine mission, a unit of National Guard soldiers stops at a New Mexico outpost in order to deliver equipment to a group of atomic scientists. When they arrive at the isolated research camp, however, they find it is mysteriously deserted. After spotting a distress signal in a distant mountain range, the team decides to embark on a search and rescue mission into the hills in order to locate the missing scientists. (20th Century Fox)
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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. (imdb)
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Set in a future version of America, a prisoner (Statham) who is weeks away from being released is forced by his warden (Allen) to compete in a brutal, deadly car race alongside his fellow inmates.
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Mexico. The near future. Memo Cruz has always dreamed of leaving his tiny village and heading north. But when he is ultimately forced to leave, Memo finds a future so bizarre - border walls, shantytowns, hi-tech factories, remote control drones and aqua-terrorists - that it looks a lot like today.
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Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood (imdb)
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Based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan and directed by the brothers Dowdle (Quarantine helmers Drew and John Eric), this edgy thriller is set in an elevator, where a group of passengers are trapped with none other than the king of the underworld. Luckily for them, a homicide detective (Chris Messina) is on board. Not so luckily: the cop has issues of his own, including a not-so-long-ago-kicked addiction to alcohol.
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A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. (imdb)
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A haunting account of a tormented man who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness (imdb)
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Max Steel (2001) - TV Series
A teenage boy with accidental body enhancements fights the enemies of peace as a super-powered secret agent. (imdb)
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A young American couple in love, Michael and Olivia are on vacation in Baja, but things take a frightening turn when Olivia is kidnapped by a 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 Tijuana Cop is on the trail, as Michael navigates the treacherous underworld of Mexico, and he himself becomes a force to be reckoned with...
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A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship. (imdb)
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Mr. Iglesias (2019) - TV Series
A good-natured high school teacher working at his alma mater works with gifted but misfit and disinterested students. (imdb)
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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. (imdb)
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National Treasure: Edge of History (2022) - TV Series
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Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets (imdb)
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Moonlight (2007) - TV Series
Over fifty years ago, Mick St. John was turned into a vampire. Now in modern Los Angeles, he is a private eye; working cases that often involve the undead. He uses his supernatural abilities to help mortals in need, a difficult task if he is to keep his own identity a secret. Mick's mentor is Josef, a powerful fellow vampire with many connections. One night, a case leads Mick to reporter Beth Turner, a beautiful human woman he feels bound to protect. But while he struggles with his romantic feel (imdb)
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