Jesse Garcia

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Jesse Garcia

Garcia (right) with David W. Ross, fellow star of Quinceañera, at the Sundance Film Festival, January 21, 2006
Born c. 1982
Rawlins, Wyoming

Jesse Garcia (born c. 1982) is an American actor.

Garcia starred in the award-winning film Quinceañera, written and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer with executive producer Todd Haynes, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival in the Dramatic Independent Feature Competition. Quinceañera was also selected to play at the Berlin Film Festival. Garcia won Best Actor at the 2007 ALMA Awards for his role as Carlos, a troubled gay teenager, in Quinceañera.

Garcia was born in Rawlins, Wyoming, and was reared as a Jehovah's Witness.[1][2] His father is from the Mexican state of Durango and his mother, a native of Wyoming, is of Spanish and Mexican descent.[1][3]

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  1. ^ a b Although, he stopped practicing that religion a few years ago.Twitch - QUINCEAÑERA—Interview With Emily Rios and Jesse Garcia
  2. ^ Jesse gets big: playing a gay cholo in Quinceanera, the summer's hottest gay movie, Jesse Garcia is on the path to stardom. - Free Online Library
  3. ^ Latina.com - Entertainment - Movies - Meet Quinceañera´s Breakout Star, Jesse Garcia

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