Biography
Mario Ernesto Sánchez (born on January 10, 1947, in San Antonio de las Vegas, Cuba; † April 10, 2025, in Miami, Florida, USA) was a Cuban actor and theater founder. In 1979, he established Teatro Avante, a Hispanic theater in Florida, and became a significant figure in promoting Latin American theater in the United States. Sánchez played various supporting roles in Hollywood films and TV series, including Invasion U.S.A. (1985), The Specialist (1994), Bad Boys (1995), and Step Up Revolution (201...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Father of the Bride
2022
as Paco
A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family...

Death of a Fool
2020
as Herman
A teenager and his dying grandfather conduct afterlife investigations in Miami when a mysterious man hires them to find the secret to immortality.

Sea Devil
2015
An American fisherman attempts to smuggle two Cuban immigrants into Miami, passing them off as day laborers. While the group trawls for shrimp, a four...

Step Up Revolution
2012
as Ricky
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threat...

Miami Vice
2006
as El Tiburon
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox C...

Proof of Life
2000
as Arturo Fernandez
When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enlists special agent Terry Thorne to help free him. H...

8MM
1999
as Taxi Driver
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the he...

The Truman Show
1998
as Security Guard
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, ...

Catherine's Grove
1997
as Ernesto
Undercover cop Doyle is working on a serial killer case that's left a trail of dead transvestites. Then, moonlighting as a private eye, Doyle and his ...

Virtual Weapon
1997
as Emergency doctor
A detective duo hunts a criminal organization, which is using an unknown liquid explosive material.

Plato's Run
1997
as Flaco
Hired to rescue escaped inmates, a Florida man is framed for a Cuban gangster's assassination.

Blood and Wine
1996
as Artie (Fishing Ace)
A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife inte...

Bad Boys
1995
as Drug Buyer
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a...

The Specialist
1994
as Charlie
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired ex...

Staying Afloat
1993
as Phillipe
In this comedy thriller, a prospective series pilot, Larry Hagman plays a disinherited socialite and high roller who, with the aid of a comely con art...

Fires Within
1991
as Family Member
A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husba...

Clinton and Nadine
1988
as Rojas
Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns ...

Invasion U.S.A.
1985
as Victor
A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.