Yul Vazquez (born 18 March 1965) is a Cuban and American actor and musician. He has appeared in Runaway Bride (1999), Bad Boys II (2003), War of the Worlds (2005), American Gangster (2007), The A-Team (2010), Captain Phillips (2013), The Infiltrator (2016), Midnight, Texas (2017–2018), Russian Doll (2019), Severance (2022–2025), Hotel Cocaine (2024) and The Lost Bus (2025). Vazquez used to be the lead guitarist for melodic rock bands Urgent and Diving for Pearls.
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Early life
Vazquez was born in Cuba on 18 March 1965 and came to the United States with his family in 1971. He was named after Russian actor Yul Brynner. 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.
