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Hide Show Archive footage 15 credits. Ernesto uncredited. Related Videos. In , he made his directorial debut with the film Cachao Garcia also produced an album based on the film that was nominated for a Grammy Award. In , Garcia teamed with an all-star cast for director Steven Soderbergh's remake of Ocean's Eleven and returned to perform in the film's sequel, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen Two years after Garcia was born, Cuba became embroiled in revolution, and in January Fidel Castro assumed power in that country.
Garcia's father lost his property as a result of Castro's confiscation of land from private owners. In the U. In the midst of this political turmoil, when Garcia was five years old, he and his family moved to Miami, Florida. Once in Miami, Garcia attended the local high school, where he played basketball for a time. After contracting mononucleosis, which he believed dulled his athletic edge, he discovered acting.
He went on to study acting at Florida International University and performed in regional theater productions until Like many other struggling actors who dream of stardom, Garcia was attracted to Hollywood, the hub of the movie industry, and moved there in He worked as a waiter to earn a living while he auditioned for parts. In , he secured a role with an improvisational group at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles. It was there that a casting agent for the television series Hill Street Blues spotted him.
That discovery enabled him to land a role as a gang member in the pilot episode of the show in In , Garcia made his film debut in Blue Skies Again, a movie about baseball. His big break came in , when he landed a significant role in the blockbuster film The Untouchables , which starred Kevin Costner.
Garcia, who played a cop-turned-government agent in the film, received his first critical acclaim for acting. He also appeared in American Roulette , a spy thriller, and the acclaimed film Stand and Deliver. Critics have long charged that Hollywood films often place Hispanic Americans into stereotypical roles. Breaking through this stereotype, Stand and Deliver was one of the first Hispanic-controlled films to achieve success in the American mainstream.
The film, which starred Edward James Olmos, told the true story of Jaime Escalante, a Bolivian mathematics teacher living in Los Angeles who helped Chicano high school students learn calculus. Hispanics not only appeared in the film, but also controlled the script writing, directing and financing for the film, a unique state of affairs for Hollywood.
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