Jacob Vargas
Audiences rate Jacob Vargas’s films lower than 65% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): Selena (Tubi) · The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Tubi) · The Principal (Tubi) · Devil (YouTube) · The 33 (ViX) · Beyond Skyline (Tubi, Fawesome, Roku Channel).
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The ThumbScore for Jacob Vargas (69.9%) is the average audience approval rating across 14 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Jacob's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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).
Born 1971-08-18 in Michoacan, Mexico.
On ThumbScore, Jacob Vargas appears in 14 films with an average audience score of 69.9%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
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