Biography
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),...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Satanic Hispanics
2022
as El Jefe
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 t...
Kimi
2022
as 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,...
Plan B
2021
as 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 ...
Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer
2021
as Bartesian
Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round) perform every song from the 2015 album Money Shot.
Princess of the Row
2020
as 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 fathe...
The Public
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 th...
Peel
2019
as 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...
Beyond Skyline
2017
as Garcia
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 allian...
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2016
as 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...
Crossing Point
2016
as 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 ...
The Tell-Tale Heart
2016
as 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 futi...
The 33
2015
as Edison 'Elvis' Peña
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
The Journey of a Female Comic
2014
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
Water & Power
2014
as Asuncion Garcia
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...
Heaven Is for Real
2014
as Michael
The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. When he awakes,...
Cesar Chavez
2014
as 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 t...
Red Sky
2014
as Jorge 'P-Dawg' Vasquez
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,...
Go for Sisters
2013
as Navajas
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...
Devil
2010
as Ramirez
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
The Odds
2010
as Sergio Vargas
A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.
Sleep Dealer
2008
as 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 s...
Death Race
2008
as Gunner
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyla...
Love Lies Bleeding
2008
as Detective Billy Jones
A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007
as Jorge Escobar
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 hosta...
Are We Done Yet?
2007
as 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...
The Hills Have Eyes 2
2007
as Crank
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
Bobby
2006
as Miguel
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assas...
National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
2006
as 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 spo...
National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
2006
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 spo...
Jarhead
2005
as Juan Cortez
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 a...
The Wendell Baker Story
2005
as 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 the...
Flight of the Phoenix
2004
as Sammi
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. On the flig...
Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother
2004
as 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 hotsho...
E.D.N.Y.
2003
A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.
E.D.N.Y.
2003
Director, Writer
A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.
Road Dogz
2002
as 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 ...
Road Dogz
2002
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 ...
Dragonfly
2002
as Victor
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Truth Be Told
2002
as 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 out...
Dr. Dolittle 2
2001
as Pepito (voice)
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 protec...
Come and Take It Day
2001
as Miguel
"Come and Take it Day" uses Texas history to tell a story of friendship, envy, betrayal, and greed. The fictional story centers around the hunt for th...
Traffic
2000
as Manolo Sanchez
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 Poli...
Next Friday
2000
as 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 ...
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
as 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 I...
Santa Fe
1997
as Jesus
A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997
as 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 suc...
Selena
1997
as 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 d...
Get Shorty
1995
as Yayo Portillo
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror fil...
Crimson Tide
1995
as Sonarman #2
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on...
My Family
1995
as Young Jose
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los A...
Mi Vida Loca
1994
as 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'...
Airborne
1993
as 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...
Gas Food Lodging
1992
as 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...
American Me
1992
as 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 ...
Seeds of Tragedy
1991
as Cholo #2
Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990
as 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 awaite...
Little Nikita
1988
as Miguel
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
The Principal
1987
as 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...
Ernest Goes to Camp
1987
as 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 juvenil...
Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story
1986
as Enrique Mendoza
A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.
Last Resort
1986
as Carlos
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhe...