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name: "Yul Vazquez"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yul-vazquez"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 March 1965"
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average_fi1m_score: 80
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# Yul Vazquez

Actor. Born 18 March 1965 in La Havana, Cuba.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 March 1965, La Havana, Cuba
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Also known as:** Yul Vázquez, Yul Vasquez, 이얼 바즈퀫즈

## Biography

Yul Vazquez is a Cuban-American actor and musician. Born in Havana, Cuba, on 18 March 1965, he moved to the United States with his family in 1971 and grew up in Miami. He began his career in the 1980s as a guitarist in rock bands before transitioning to acting.

Vazquez has appeared in numerous films, including *Traffic* (2000), *Bad Boys II* (2003), *War of the Worlds* (2005), *American Gangster* (2007), *The A-Team* (2010) and *Captain Phillips* (2013), in which he played Captain Frank Castellano. On television he has had roles in *Severance* (2022–2025) and *Russian Doll* (2019). He is an original member of the LAByrinth Theater Company and has served as one of its co-artistic directors. He is married to actress Linda Larkin.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Severance* (2022), Fi1m 86, as Peter 'Petey' Kilmer — [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md)
- *Captain Phillips* (2013), Fi1m 83, as Captain Frank Castellano — [page](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md)
- *Che: Part One* (2008), Fi1m 72, as Alejandro Ramirez — [page](https://film.one/film/che-part-one.md)
- *Che: Part Two* (2008), Fi1m 76, as Alejandro Ramírez — [page](https://film.one/film/che-part-two.md)
- *Traffic* (2000), Fi1m 82, as Tigrillo / Obregón Assassin — [page](https://film.one/film/traffic.md)

## Also known for

- *War of the Worlds* (2005), Julio
- *American Gangster* (2007), Alfonso Abruzzo
- *Bad Boys II* (2003), Detective Mateo Reyes
- *The A-Team* (2010), General Javier Tuco
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Luis Montero, Daniel Hardy
- *Little Fockers* (2010), Junior
- *Runaway Bride* (1999), Dead Head Gill
- *Sex and the City* (1998), Phil

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