Early life

Vazquez was born in Cuba.

Acting career

Vazquez's upcoming film projects include Kill the Messenger starring opposite Jeremy Renner and directed by Michael Cuesta, the Dreamworks animated feature B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations with Bill Murray and Seth Rogen; Anesthesia; and The Cobbler, opposite Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman and Steve Buscemi. He can also been seen on the small screen on Lifetime's new series The Lottery as Pres. Thomas Westwood.

With over 40 film credits, highlights include roles in six time Oscar nominee Captain Phillips (2013), The A-Team (2010) with Liam Neeson, John Sayles's Amigo, Steven Soderbergh’s two-part epic Che (2008), The Take (2008), American Gangster, Music Within (2007), War of the Worlds (2005), Bad Boys II (2003), Traffic and Runaway Bride (1999).

He was a regular for both seasons of the Starz drama Magic City. Set in 1960s Miami, the series centers on the upscale Miramar Playa Hotel amongst the political and organized crime drama of the time. Yul portrays Victor Lazaro, general manager of the Miramar Playa. Additionally, he recurs in three other television series, as Pedro in FX’s Louie, as Christian in CBS's Good Wife and as Det. Anthony Nikolich on the HBO television series Treme.

Vazquez is a founding member of the LAByrinth Theater Company and served two terms as co-Artistic Director with Stephen Adly Guirgis and Mimi O'Donnell in New York City. Vazquez starred on Broadway in the Tony nominated Motherf**ker With The Hat opposite Chris Rock. For his portrayal of the eccentric Cousin Julio, he received nominations for a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony Award for "Best Featured Actor in a Play". Additional theater credits include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (The Public Theater) opposite Sam Rockwell, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terrence McNally’s Stendhal Syndrome, Primary Stages with Isabella Rossellini and Richard Thomas, and The Floating Island Plays (Mark Taper Forum).

Music career

Prior to starting his acting career, Vazquez was the lead guitar player for notable East Coast AOR bands Urgent and Diving For Pearls. Urgent landed a minor hit with their single "Running Back" which reached #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single from their Cast The First Stone debut album, "Love Can Make You Cry", was featured on the Iron Eagle soundtrack. Urgent broke up in 1987 after the lackluster success of their sophomore album, Thinking Out Loud, which contained the single "I Can't Take It No More".

Following the demise of Urgent, Vazquez would join Diving For Pearls whose eponymous debut album was issued by Epic/Sony Music in 1989. Vazquez can be seen in the band's "Gimme Your Good Lovin'" promotional video. The group was dropped by the label before a second album could be completed due to the musical climate changing in the early 1990s as melodic hard rock fell out of favor in the U.S..

In 2009, Vazquez played acoustic guitar with Ian Astbury of The Cult under the name The Soft Revolt appearing at the The Bowery Electric in New York City on the opening night of John Patrick Shanley's play "Savage in Limbo", which Astbury was producing. They performed songs by The Cult and Astbury solo material as well as covers by the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Radiohead, among others.

Personal life

He is married to actress Linda Larkin since 2002. He is the uncle of actress Vanessa Aspillaga.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	The Mambo Kings	Flaco
1992	Tales from the Crypt	Danny Darwin	Episode: "On a Deadman's Chest"
1992	Bitter Harvest	Luis Salinas	TV Movie / The BBC
1994	Fresh	Chillie
1995	Nick of Time	Gustino
1995-1998	Seinfeld	Bob The Intimidating Gay Guy	Episode: "Soup Nazi" "The Sponge" "The Puerto Rican Day"
1998	Trinity		Episode: "In Loco Parentis"
1999	Man of the Century	Brooding Artist
1999	Runaway Bride	Dead Head Gill Chavez
1999	Mondo Picasso	Mondo	TV Series
2000	Traffic	Tigrillo / Obregon Assassin	Won - Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
2001	Big Apple	Office Cruz	TV Series
2001	Sex and the City	Phil	Episode: "The Agony and the Ex-tacy"
2002	Running Time	The Hunter	Short
2002	The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina	Gibson Mouse (voice)
2002	The Sopranos	Reuben 'The Cuban'	Episode: "Christopher"
2003	Keen Eddie	Jonah Rosenthal
2003	Bad Boys II	Detective Mateo Reyes
2005	War of the Worlds	Luis
2006	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories	Armando Mendez (voice)	Video game
2006	Things That Hang from Trees	Juan Lopez
2006	The Ex	Paco
2007	Music Within	Mike Stoltz
2007	Southern Gothic	Hazel Fortune
2007	The Take	Marco Ruiz
2007	Jesus Cooks Me Breakfast	Jesus - As Young Man	Short
2007	Anamorph	George Ruiz
2007	The Box	Finn Williams
2007	American Gangster	Alfonso Abruzzo	Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
2008	The Marconi Brothers	Sonny Venice
2008	Che: Part Two	Alejandro Ramirez
2008	Che: Part One	Alejandro Ramirez
2008	Fringe	George	Episode: "The Dreamscape"
2009	The Missing Person	Don Edgar
2010	Seed	Philips	Short
2010	Beware the Gonzo	Charlie Ronald
2010	The A-Team	General Javier Tuco
2010	Amigo	Padre Hidalgo	Nominated: Best Supporting Actor for the Gawad Urian Award
2010	Lies in Plain Sight	Rafael Reyes
2010	Little Fockers	Junior
2011	Salvation Boulevard	Jorge Guzman De Vaca
2012	Father/Son	Father	Short
2011-2012	Louie	Pedro
2012-2013	Treme	Detective Anthony Nikolich
2012-2013	The Good Wife	Cristian Romano
2010-2013	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Daniel Hardy / Luis Montero
2013	Blood Ties	Fabio DeSoto
2010	F--K	Yul	Short, Actor/Producer
2012-2013	Magic City	Victor Lazaro
2014	Adam Shaw	Detective Sandoval	Actor/Producer
2013	Runner, Runner	Delegate Herrera
2013	Captain Phillips	Captain Castellano
2013	Blood Ties	Delegate Herrera
2013	Fugly!	Ray
2014	Person of Interest	Cyrus Wells	Episode: "Root Path"
2014	Kill the Messenger	Danilo Blandon
2014	Glass Chin	Roberto Flash
2014	Rob the Mob	Vinny Gorgeous
2014	The Lottery	President Thomas Westwood	TV series, regular role
2014	Take Care	Dr. Gotham Leonard
2014	Sweets	Rick
2015	Anesthesia	Dr. Edward Barnes
2016	The True Memoirs of an International Assassin		Post-production

Discography

• Urgent - Cast the First Stone (EMI-Manhattan, 1985)
• Various - Iron Eagle OST (Capitol, 1986)
• Urgent - Thinking Out Loud (EMI-Manhattan, 1987)
• Diving For Pearls - Diving for Pearls (Epic/Sony, 1989)

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