Yul Vazquez

Vazquez was born in Cuba on 18 March 1965 and came to the United States with his family in 1971. He grew up in Miami in a studio apartment with his mother, grandmother and older sister, being the youngest as well as the only boy in the household. His mother encouraged him in the arts, often taking him to the theater where she worked, and she bought him his first drum set and camera. ==Acting career==

Vazquez started his acting career with filler parts in his mother's plays, which led to discovery by an agent who encouraged him to go to acting school. In the 1980s, he was lead guitarist for two Billboard-charted rock bands. His musical skills led him to land the part of Flaco in the 1992 film The Mambo Kings. He has also been in Kill the Messenger (2014) starring Jeremy Renner and directed by Michael Cuesta; The Cobbler (2014) opposite Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman and Steve Buscemi; and Anesthesia (2015). In television, he has had many guest and recurring roles. In the TV sitcom Seinfeld Vazquez played the role of Bob who stole the armoire from Kramer. In Lifetime's series The Lottery he starred as President Thomas Westwood and as The Reverend Emilio Sheehan in the NBC series Midnight, Texas. He was a regular for both seasons of the Starz drama Magic City, where he portrayed Victor Lazaro, general manager of the Miramar Playa. Additionally, he has recurred in other television series, as Pedro in FX's Louie, as Christian in CBS's The Good Wife and as Det. Anthony Nikolich on the HBO television series Treme. In the streaming world, he has had recurring roles in several hit shows including Netflix's Russian Doll and Apple TV+'s Severance. Vazquez is a founding member of the LAByrinth Theater Company and served two terms as co-artistic director with Stephen Adly Guirgis and Mimi O'Donnell in New York City. Vazquez starred on Broadway in the Tony nominated The Motherfucker with the Hat opposite Chris Rock. For his portrayal of the eccentric Cousin Julio, he received nominations for a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Additional theater credits include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (The Public Theater) opposite Sam Rockwell, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terrence McNally's Stendhal Syndrome, Primary Stages with Isabella Rossellini and Richard Thomas, and The Floating Island Plays (Mark Taper Forum). ==Music career==

Prior to starting his acting career, Vazquez was the lead guitar player for East Coast Album-oriented rock (AOR) bands Urgent and Diving for Pearls. Urgent landed a minor hit with their single "Running Back" which reached #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single from their Cast The First Stone debut album, "Love Can Make You Cry", was re-recorded for the Iron Eagle soundtrack. Urgent broke up in 1987 after the lackluster success of their sophomore album, Thinking Out Loud. Following the demise of Urgent, Vazquez joined Diving for Pearls, whose eponymous debut album was issued by Epic/Sony Music in 1989. The group was dropped by the label before a second album could be completed due to the musical climate changing in the early 1990s as melodic hard rock fell out of favor in the U.S. In the 2022 show Severance, Vazquez sings and plays a cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" in the fourth episode. ==Personal life==

Vazquez has been married to actress Linda Larkin (voice of Princess Jasmine) since 18 May 2002. ==Filmography==

Film Television Video games Audio ==Discography==

• Urgent – Cast the First Stone (EMI-Manhattan, 1985) • Various – Iron Eagle OST (Capitol, 1986) • Urgent – Thinking Out Loud (EMI-Manhattan, 1987) • Diving for Pearls – Diving for Pearls (Epic/Sony, 1989) • Diving for Pearls – Texas (2006) ==References==