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Aliases: Ray Cruz , Raymond Garcia

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Los Angeles County, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 34

TV Involvements: 14


Most Famous Work

Biography

Raymund Cruz (born July 9, 1961) is a Mexican American actor. He is mostly known for playing military roles. His movie roles include Clear and Present Danger as Ding Chavez, The Substitute as Tom Berenger's second-in-command Joey Six, The Rock in an un-credited U.S. Marine role, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money as Jesus, Alien Resurrection as USM Private Vincent DiStephano, and Under Siege as Ramirez. He also appeared in the gang movie Blood In Blood Out, playing the role of Chuey, a gang member from the Vatos Locos. In 2005 he played Chino In Havoc. He also appears in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, credited as "The Messenger," and in Training Day as a gang member named Sniper, the poker player who doesn't know that three-of-a-kind beats two pair. He has made guest appearances in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Siege of AR-558", in The X-Files Season 4 episode "El Mundo Gira" and in the second season of 24 as a thug. In the Music Videoclip from Madonna Vogue ,He also made an appearance as the father of a murdered girl in CSI. Cruz played a large distributor of methamphetamines named Tuco on Breaking Bad in 2008. He is now a regular cast member on the TV series The Closer. Cruz also had a recurring role as Paco on My Name Is Earl, and as Alejandro Perez on Nip/Tuck. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raymond Cruz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

CSI: Miami
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8

CSI: Miami

(2002) Martin
Breaking Bad
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9

Breaking Bad

(2008) Tuco Salamanca
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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8

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

(2000) Donald Balboa
Murder, She Wrote
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8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) José 'Joseph' Galvan
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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8
Better Call Saul
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9

Better Call Saul

(2015) Tuco Salamanca
The X-Files
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8

The X-Files

(1993) Eladio Buente
The Closer
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8

The Closer

(2005) Julio Sanchez

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 El Diablo
2022 Gus
Sal
2021 Frank
Hector
2020 Sherif Luis Santi
2019 Rafael Olvera
2017 Swayze
2015 Carlos
Ariel Castro
Tuco Salamanca
2013 Self
2012 Detective Julio Sanchez
Self
2009 Enrico Morales
2008 Tuco Salamanca
2006 N/A
N/A
2005 Chino
Julio Sanchez
Reverend
2004 Raphael Garcia
Spanish Professor
2003 N/A
2002 Martin
Junior
2001 Sniper
2000 Gutierrez
Miguel Durado
Donald Balboa
1999 N/A
T-Boy
Jesus
1997 Pvt. Vincent Distephano
Manuel
1996 Sergeant Rojas (uncredited)
Joey Six
Fernando Buttanda
Air Force Staff Officer at Casualty Briefing (uncredited)
1995 Staff Sergeant Adams
Tomas Gomez
1994 Doogie
Domingo Chavez
Doogie
1993 Eladio Buente
Mario
Chuey
Arturo
Vargas
1992 Ramirez
Cyclone
Paco Sanchez
Balco
1991 Diego
Hector
1990 Messenger
N/A
1989 Punk #2
Felipe
1988 Cheeta
1987 Sam
1984 José 'Joseph' Galvan
Sergio Sanchez
Memo
Year Character Movie/Tv

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