Acting career

Vazquez's film projects include Kill the Messenger starring Jeremy Renner and directed by Michael Cuesta, playing The Reverend Emilio Sheehan in the hit NBC series Midnight, Texas, 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".[2] 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.[3] 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 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.[4]

Personal life

Vazquez has been married to actress Linda Larkin since May 18, 2002.[5][6] He is the uncle of actress Vanessa Aspillaga.[citation needed]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	The Mambo Kings	Flaco
1992	Tales from the Crypt	Danny Darwin	Episode: "On a Deadman's Chest"
1993	The Untouchables		2 episodes
1993	Night Owl	Tomas
1994	Fresh	Chillie
1995	Nick of Time	Gustino
1995-1998	Seinfeld	Bob The Intimidating Gay Guy	3 episodes
1998	Trinity	Mr. Cupideros	Episode: "In Loco Parentis"
1999	Man of the Century	Brooding Artist
1999	Runaway Bride	Dead Head Gill Chavez
1999	Mondo Picasso	Mondo	Unknown episodes
2000	Traffic	Tigrillo / Obregon Assassin	Won - Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
2000-2002	Courage the Cowardly Dog	(voice)	26 episodes
2001	Big Apple	Officer Cruz	3 episodes
2001	Sex and the City	Phil	Episode: "The Agony and the Ex-tacy"
2002	Running Time	The Hunter	Short film
2002	The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina	Gibson Mouse (voice)	Video
2002	The Sopranos	Reuben 'The Cuban'	Episode: "Christopher"
2003	Keen Eddie	Jonah Rosenthal
2003	Bad Boys II	Detective Mateo Reyes
2005	The F Word	Luis
2005	War of the Worlds	Julio
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	Young Man Jesus	Short film
2007	Anamorph	Jorge "George" Ruiz
2007	The Box	Finn Williams
2007	American Gangster	Det. Alfonso Abruzzo	Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
2008	The Marconi Brothers	Sonny Venice
2008	Che: Part One	Alejandro Ramirez
2008	Che: Part Two	Alejandro Ramirez
2008	Fringe	George	Episode: "The Dreamscape"
2009	The Missing Person	Don Edgar
2009	Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony	The People of Liberty City	Video game
2010	Seed	Philips	Short film
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	TV Movie
2010	Little Fockers	Junior
2010	F--K	Yul	Short film Actor/Producer
2010-2013	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Daniel Hardy / Luis Montero	2 episodes
2011	Salvation Boulevard	Jorge Guzman De Vaca
2011-2012	Louie	Pedro	2 episodes
2012	Father/Son	Father	Short film
2012-2013	Magic City	Victor Lazaro	15 episodes
2012-2013	Treme	Detective Anthony Nikolich	8 episodes
2012-2013	The Good Wife	Cristian Romano	3 episodes
2013	Blood Ties	Fabio DeSoto
2013	Runner, Runner	Delegate Herrera
2013	Captain Phillips	Captain Castellano
2014	Fugly!	Ray
2014	The Cobbler	Marsha
2014	Time Out of Mind	Raoul
2014	Person of Interest	Cyrus Wells	Episode: "Root Path"
2014	Adam Shaw	Detective Sandoval	Actor/Producer
2014	Kill the Messenger	Danilo Blandon
2014	Glass Chin	Roberto Flash
2014	Rob the Mob	Vinny Gorgeous
2014	The Lottery	President Thomas Westwood	10 episodes Regular role
2014	Take Care	Dr. Gotham Leonard
2014	Sweets	Rick
2015	Anesthesia	Dr. Edward Barnes
2016	The Infiltrator	Javier Ospina
2016	True Memoirs of an International Assassin	Gen. Ruiz
2016	Beast or Raven	Man	Short film
2016	The Phenom	Eddie Soler
2016-present	Divorce	Craig Anders	6 episodes
2017	Midnight, Texas	Rev. Emilio Sheehan	Main role; season 1 (9 episodes)
2017	Last Flag Flying	Col. Willits
2017	Crown Heights	Commissioner Rafello
2018	Gringo	Angel Valverde
2018	The Looming Tower	Jason Sanchez	5 episodes
2018	O.G.	Baxter
2019	I Am the Night	Billis

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)
• Diving For Pearls - Texas (2006)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]