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
2006 Berlin Film Festival. Garcia won Best Actor at the
2007 ALMA Awards for his role as Carlos, a troubled gay teenager, in
Quinceañera. He appeared in the thriller
Locker 13 in 2009. He made a cameo appearance on Marvel's
The Avengers in 2012. He appeared in the 2010 revival of
The Pee-wee Herman Show and in the 2010 music video of
Wisin & Yandel's "
Estoy enamorado". He portrayed
Richard Montañez in the
biographical movie ''
Flamin' Hot'' (2023), based on Montañez's
disputed claim of inventing
Flamin' Hot Cheetos. ==Personal life==