Jorge Garcia
Life and career
Garcia was born the son of a Chilean physician and a Cuban teacher in Nebraska and raised 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. At that time, he realized that acting would open the door for him to show business. After college, he joined the Beverly Hills Playhouse, a theater with drama school, where he has worked since fixed.
On stage he appeared in The Midnight Zone, Something Borrowed Something Blue, Romancing Valentino, Fiddler on the Roof, and Hurleyburley in Guys and Dolls. Garcia has also performed stand- up comedy, Laugh Factory and Comedy Store in Los Angeles.
In addition, he played supporting roles in many films and television series. So he had in the U.S. detective series Columbo an appearance ( in the episode Columbo Likes the Nightlife ( in Germany: The Last Party ) ). In the sitcom Becker, he plays in the sixth season an unemployed person. A taxi driver he plays in the first episode of the sixth season of Spin City on the side of Charlie Sheen. In the series Lost played Garcia from 2004 to 2010 the lead role of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. In the future he will again take over some supporting roles. In the sixth and the ninth season of How I Met Your Mother, he took over for the episodes a guest role, as with the 2011 broadcast series Mr. Sunshine starring Matthew Langford Perry. In 2012, he starred in the lead role as Dr. Diego "Doc" Soto in JJ Abrams Mystery Series Alcatraz.
His "trademark " is his extreme obesity.
Garcia is very active on the internet since a few years, so he runs instead of a professional website is a private blog is the official Lost Discussion Forum "The Fuselage " the actor who answers the most common questions on the fans (followed by Terry O'Quinn ) and operating beyond the sixth and final season of Lost, together with his partner Bethany James Leigh Shady own podcast series.
Filmography (selection)
- 2000: The Wild Thornberrys ( The Wild Thornberrys, TV series, episode 3x10 Spirited Away )
- 2001: Spin City (TV series, episode 6x01 The Arrival )
- 2001: After Midnight (Tomorrow by Midnight )
- 2003: Columbo (TV series, episode 13x05 The last party )
- 2003-2004: Becker (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 2004: Happily Even After
- 2004: Curb Your Enthusiasm! ( Curb Your Enthusiasm, TV Series, episode 4x06 The Car Pool Lane )
- 2005: Higglytown Heroes ( Higglytown Heroes, TV series, voice of Hero Dog Trainer )
- 2005: Little Athens
- 2005: The Good Humor Man
- 2006: Deck the Halls ( Deck the Halls )
- 2007: Sweetzer
- 2010, 2014: How I Met Your Mother (TV series, episode 6x10 episode 9x21 Blitzgiving and Gary Blauman )
- 2011: Maktub
- 2011: Fringe - Special cases of the FBI (Fringe, TV series, episode 3x16 Os)
- 2011: Mr. Sunshine (TV series, three episodes)
- 2012: Alcatraz ( 13 episodes)
- 2012-2013: Once Upon a Time - Once upon a time ... (Once Upon a Time, TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2013: Californication (TV series, episode 6x05 Rock and a Hard Place)
- 2013: Hawaii Five-0 (TV series, episode 4x03 Ka'oia I'o Ma Loko )