Actor of The Week: Raymond Cruz

Raymond Cruz (lahir 9 Juli 1961) adalah aktor Amerika, yang terkenal karena perannya sebagai Detektif Julio Sanchez dalam serial The Closer dan perannya yang berulang sebagai raja narkoba Tuco Salamanca dalam drama kriminal Breaking Bad dan spin-off-nya Better Call Saul. Dia juga membintangi serial Major Crimes, sebuah spin-off dari The Closer, mengulangi peran Sanchez. 

Peran filmnya termasuk Ding Chavez di Clear and Present Danger, Hector di "Out For Justice", komandan Tom Berenger yang kedua Joey Six di The Substitute, Sersan Marinir AS Rojas di The Rock, sebagai Jesus in From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, USM Private Vincent DiStephano in Alien: Resurrection, dan Ramirez in Under Siege. Dia muncul sebagai Chuey, seorang anggota geng dari Vatos Locos, dalam film geng Blood In Blood Out. Pada 2005, ia bermain Chino di Havoc. Dia muncul di Gremlins 2: The New Batch, dikreditkan sebagai "The Messenger," dan di Training Day sebagai anggota geng bernama Sniper. Dia memainkan petugas pemadam kebakaran Los Angeles di Collateral Damage. Dia memiliki peran sebagai bintang tamu di Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Siege of AR-558", episode X-Files "El Mundo Gira", dan musim kedua 24. Dia juga membuat penampilan sebagai ayah dari seorang Gadis yang terbunuh di CSI. Dia memainkan peran berumur pendek tetapi terkenal sebagai Tuco Salamanca, dealer met sadis dan sosiopat di Breaking Bad pada 2008 dan 2009. Dia kemudian mengulangi peran Tuco dalam spin-off Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul. Dia memiliki peran yang berulang sebagai Paco di My Name Is Earl, dan sebagai Alejandro Perez di Nip / Tuck.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Maid to Order	Sam
1988	Twice Dead	Gang member
1989	I Know My First Name is Steven	Punk
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Messenger
1990	Cold Dog Soup	Gang member
1991	Prison Stories: Women on the Inside	Montoya	Television film
1991	Dead Again	Store clerk
1991	Out for Justice	Hector
1991	Perfect Crimes	Diego	Television film
1992	Man Trouble	Balco
1992	Nails	Paco Sanchez	Television film
1992	Judgement	Cyclone
1992	Under Siege	Ramirez
1993	Blood In Blood Out	Chuy
1993	When the Party's Over	Mario
1994	Dead Badge	Tomas Gomez
1994	Clear and Present Danger	Ding Chavez
1994	Dragstrip Girl	Doogie	Television film
1995	Operation Dumbo Drop	Staff Sergeant Adams	Uncredited
1996	The Substitute	Joey Six
1996	The Rock	Sergeant Rojas	Uncredited
1996	Up Close and Personal	Fernando Buttanda
1996	Broken Arrow	USAF Lieutenant Colonel	Uncredited
1997	Last Stand at Saber River	Manuel	Television film
1997	Alien: Resurrection	Private Vincent DiStephano
1998	Playing Patti
1999	From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money	Jesus
1999	The Last Marshal	T-Boy
2000	Blood Money	Gutierrez	Television film
2001	Training Day	Sniper
2002	Collateral Damage	Junior
2004	Just Hustle	Spanish Professor
2004	My Name is Modesty	Raphael Garcia
2005	Havoc	Chino
2005	Brothers in Arms	Reverend
2006	10 Tricks	Sal
2015	Cleveland Abduction	Ariel Castro	Television film
2019	The Curse of La Llorona	Rafael Olvera
TBA	Wander	Luis Santiago	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Beauty and the Beast	Hal	Episode: "Down to a Sunless Sea"
1988	Cagney and Lacey	Alonzo	Episode: "Land of the Free"
1988	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Angel Perez	Episode: "Gangs"
1988	Vietnam War Story	Diaz	Episode: "Separated"
1988	Knots Landing	Van Driver, Young Man	2 episodes
1989	A Nightmare on Drug Street	Felipe	Short Film
1990	Hunter	Tomas Delgado	Episode: "La Familia"
1990	Freddy's Nightmares	Johnny 'Mac' McFarland	Episode: "Life Sentence"
1990	Matlock	Alien Worker	Episode: "The Cookie Monster"
1990	Lifestories		Episode: "Frank Brody"
1990	China Beach	Lopez	Episode: "One Small Step"
1993	Murder, She Wrote	José "Joseph" Galvan	Episode: "Double Jeopardy"
1995	The Marshal	Rossiter	Episode: "The Ballad of Lucas Burke"
1995	Walker Texas Ranger	Sgt. Perez	Episode: "Case Closed"
1995–2000	NYPD Blue	Raoul / Rico	2 episodes
1995–2000	The Eddie Files	Johnny	16 episodes
1997	The X Files	Eladio Buente	Episode: "El Mundo Gira"
1997	Cracker: Mind Over Murder	MacCormick	Episode: "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"
1997	413 Hope St.	Rico	Episode: "Lost Boys and Gothic Girls"
1998	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Vargas	Episode: "The Siege of AR-558"
1998	The Practice	Miguel Moreno	Episode: "Truth and Consequences"
1999	Seven Days	Rodriguez	Episode: "Daddy's Girl"
2000	Strange World	Rinaldo Molina	Episode: "Man Plus"
2000	Seven Days	Teo Millar	Episode: "The Cuban Missile"
2000	Harsh Realm	Sgt. Escalante	2 episodes
2002	Robbery Homicide Division	Jesus "Termite" Rosales	Episode: "City of Strivers"
2002	Boomtown	Ruben	Episode: "Crash"
2002–2003	The Division	Roland / Ray Sanchez	3 episodes
2003–2011	CSI: Miami	Martin Medesto / Marcos Trejo	2 episodes
2003	24	Rouse	2 episodes
2003–2008	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Miguel Durado / Donald Balboa	2 episodes
2003–2006	Nip/Tuck	Alejandro Perez	2 episodes
2005–2012	The Closer	Detective Julio Sanchez	105 episodes
2007–2008	My Name is Earl	Paco	5 episodes
2007	Day Break	Luis Torres	2 episodes
2008	Ylse	Jesse
2008–2009	Breaking Bad	Tuco Salamanca	4 episodes
2011	Los Americans	Memo	7 episodes
2012	White Collar	Enrico Morales	Episode: "Most Wanted"
2012–2018	Major Crimes	Detective Julio Sanchez	105 episodes
2013	Lauren (Webseries)	Martinez	3 episodes
2015–2016	Better Call Saul	Tuco Salamanca	3 episodes
2016	The Eric Andre Show	Himself	Episode: "Raymond Cruz; Amber Rose"
2018	Mayans M.C.	Che "Padre" Romero	Pilot
2018	Get Shorty	Swayze	2 episodes