Jorge Garcia (actor)

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Jorge Garcia (2012)

Jorge Garcia (born April 28, 1973 in Omaha , Nebraska ) is an American actor , best known for his leading roles in the television series Lost and Hawaii Five-0 .

life and career

Jorge Garcia was born the son of a Chilean doctor and a Cuban teacher in Nebraska and grew up in Southern California.

He attended high school in San Clemente ; in seventh grade Garcia played the villain in a music production based on a comic strip . It was then that he realized that acting would open the door to show business for him. After college , he joined the Beverly Hills Playhouse, a theater and drama school that he has worked at ever since.

On stage he has appeared in The Midnight Zone , Something Borrowed Something Blue , Romancing Valentino , Fiddler on the Roof , Hurleyburley and in Guys and Dolls . Garcia has also appeared in Stand-Up Comedy , Laugh Factory, and Comedy Store in Los Angeles .

He also played supporting roles in many films and television series. He had an appearance in the US crime series Columbo (in the episode Columbo Likes the Nightlife , English title: The last party ). In the sixth season of the sitcom Becker , he plays an unemployed person. He plays a taxi driver in the first episode of the sixth season of Chaos City alongside Charlie Sheen . In the series Lost , Garcia played the leading role of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes from 2004 to 2010 . He will also take on a few supporting roles in the future. In the sixth and ninth seasons of How I Met Your Mother , he took on a guest role for one episode, as well as on the 2011 broadcast Mr. Sunshine series with Matthew Langford Perry . In 2012 he starred as Dr. Diego "Doc" Soto starred in JJ Abram's Alcatraz mystery series . Since 2014 he has starred Jerry Ortega in the Hawaii Five-0 television series .

His “trademark” is his extreme overweight.

Garcia has for several years been very active in the Internet operates, he instead of a professional web site a private blog is the official Lost - Discussion Forum "The Fuselage" in front of Terry O'Quinn of the actors, the most common responses to questions from the fans and business about In addition to the sixth and final season of Lost, he and his partner Bethany James Leigh Shady created their own podcast on the series.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jorge Garcia  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Garcia can be seen in How I Met your Mother
  2. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Lost: Jorge Garcia in JJ Abrams Alcatraz. Serienjunkies.de , November 22, 2010, accessed on November 22, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Jorge Garcia Returning to CBS, `` Hawaii Five-O 'as Series Regular (Exclusive) , Hollywood Reporter , March 13, 2014
  4. ^ "For the Lost Actors" , official Lost Forum "The Fuselage". Accessed March 1, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Garcia, Jorge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Omaha , Nebraska, United States