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For the professional baseball player of the same name, see Jesse Garcia (baseball).
Jesse Garcia 
Garcia (right) with David W. Ross, fellow star of Quinceañera, at the Sundance Film Festival, January 21, 2006.Born c. 1982
Rawlins, Wyoming, U.S.AOccupation Actor Years active 2003 - Present Jesse Garcia (born c. 1982) is an American actor.
Garcia starred in the award-winning film Quinceañera, written and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer with executive producer Todd Haynes, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival in the Dramatic Independent Feature Competition. Quinceañera was also selected to play at the Berlin Film Festival. Garcia won Best Actor at the 2007 ALMA Awards for his role as Carlos, a troubled gay teenager, in Quinceañera. He appeared in the thriller Locker 13 in 2009.
Garcia was born in Rawlins, Wyoming, and was reared as a Jehovah's Witness.[1][2] His father is from the Mexican state of Durango and his mother, a native of Wyoming, is of Spanish and Mexican descent.[1][3]
He appeared in the 2010 revival of The Pee-wee Herman Show.[4] and in the 2010 music video of Wisin & Yandel's "Estoy enamorado".
Contents
Filmography
Films
Year Title Role Notes 2003 Performance Anxiety Guitar Player 2004 Last Goodbye Featured Player Delivery Boy Chronicles Mexican Leaf Blower Expeditions to the Edge
Ep:Hostage Mountain2005 Picnic Man Reading Book Unfabulous
Ep: The Charity ChaseFashion Designer Unseen Video 2006 Marrying God Jesus Quinceañera Carlos The Other Side Search and Rescue Guy The Shield
Ep: Extraction
Ep: JailbaitMariano Walkout Armando Lopez TV movie The Closer
Ep: BorderlineCarlos Father Figure Jesse Justice
Ep: ShotgunFrankie Duarte 2007 American Identity Bobby Freeman Put It in a Book Tiny La misma luna David ER
Ep: In a Different LightCarlos Vega The Comebacks Jorge Juanson CSI: Miami
Ep: Permanent VacationVasco Torres Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Ep: SenselessFelix Aguilar 2008 Down & Out Video Good Dick Jose Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Ep: Gnothi Seauton
Ep: The Turk
Ep: What He BeheldCarlos Emilio Hot Dog Vendor A Beautiful Life David Days of Wrath Mario 2009 NCIS
Ep: DeliveranceMarine Private First Class Tomas Tamayo Saint John of Las Vegas Park Ranger Locker 13 Ray Completed Bedrooms Sal Post-Production Periphery Smitty Spit Brown Buck Santa In production 2010 House Arrest Guillermo Post-Production Three Veils Carlos Hollywood Untitled Jose Re-Kill Hernandez Mission Park Jason Pre-Production External links
References
- ^ a b Although, he stopped practicing that religion a few years ago.Twitch - QUINCEAÑERA—Interview With Emily Rios and Jesse Garcia
- ^ Jesse gets big: playing a gay cholo in Quinceanera, the summer's hottest gay movie, Jesse Garcia is on the path to stardom. - Free Online Library
- ^ Latina.com - Entertainment - Movies - Meet Quinceañera´s Breakout Star, Jesse Garcia
- ^ BWW News Desk, "Limited Engagement of THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW Begins January 12 at Club Nokia @ L.A. LIVE", Broadway World, http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/printcolumn.cfm?id=95307, retrieved 2010-01-21
Categories:- 1982 births
- American film actors
- Living people
- People from Carbon County, Wyoming
- Actors from Wyoming
- American people of Mexican descent
- Hispanic and Latino American people
- American people of Spanish descent
- American film actor, 1980s birth stubs
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