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When Jorge Garcia played a villain in his school’s seventh-grade musical production, based on the comic strip “Drabble,” his song brought down the house. It was then that he realized that acting might just be the ticket for him.

After college he joined the Beverly Hills Playhouse and has been working steadily ever since. His television credits include being a series regular on Becker, guest leads on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Spin City, and the television movie Columbo: Columbo Likes the Nightlife. Garcia was also seen on the big screen in the films The Good Humor Man and “Little Athens.”

On stage he has appeared in productions of “The Midnight Zone,” “Something Borrowed Something Blue,” “Romancing Valentino,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Hurlyburly” and “Guys and Dolls.”

Garcia enjoys doing standup comedy and has performed at the Laugh Factory and Comedy Store in Los Angeles. He likes singing Rock ‘n’ Roll and has worked in record stores since high school – amassing a huge CD collection.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN: San Juan Capistrano, CA
BIRTHDATE: April 28
(courtesy of ABC) Jorge Garcia's large stature and larger personality made him a star long before he was cast on the hit TV series Lost. Even while he was growing up in Southern California, the charismatic young man was well liked by both his peers and his elders, even taking home the "Triton of the Year" award at his high-school graduation, an honor bestowed by the faculty to the class' most outstanding senior. He then enrolled at UCLA, majoring in Communications, but a guest lecture by Dustin Hoffman changed his direction. Hoffman told a story about Sir Laurence Olivier describing the acting bug as a feeling of "Look at me, look at me, look at me!" Garcia couldn't help but relate to the idea, so he began to pursue a career in acting and standup comedy. Success didn't come easily, though, and Garcia spent six years working at a bookstore, scoring occasional parts in commercials. Slowly but surely, however, the more substantial roles started coming. Along with appearances on shows like Spin City and Columbo, Garcia nabbed a recurring role on the sitcom Becker, making several appearances over the next six years. Then in 2004, he played a drug dealer in an episode of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm and caught the attention of ABC producers, who were in the initial stages of casting a new show called Lost. They brought Garcia in to read for the part of Sawyer, which would later go to Josh Holloway, but eventually decided to create the role of Hurley specifically for Garcia. The innovative show was a mystery thriller with a sci-fi twist, and the honest, funny, and totally unpretentious character of Hurley would become wildly popular with fans, making the 31-year-old actor an instant star. Garcia moved to Hawaii, where Lost was filmed, and continued to pursue other projects while he wasn't filming the series. He appeared in the independent drama Little Athens in 2005, and in 2006 he signed on to the Matthew Broderick Christmas comedy Deck the Halls. Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

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