Raymond Cruz

Raymond Cruz is the actor who played Vargas in the seventh season episode . He also supplied the voice of Lieutenant Jorge Gonzalez in the Star Trek: Elite Force II.
Cruz' other television roles include appearances on (starring Robert Picardo, Jeff Kober, Megan Gallagher, and Concetta Tomei), (starring Gordon Clapp and Sharon Lawrence), , , , and . He also starred in the series The Closer (with James Duff) and its spinoff, Major Crimes.
He has also appeared in such films as (1990, with Zach Galligan, Robert Picardo, John Glover, Dick Miller, Keye Luke, Jerry Goldsmith, Kenneth Tobey, and Henry Gibson), Dead Again (with Lois Hall and Steven Culp), (1992, with Colm Meaney, Bernie Casey, and Glenn Morshower), (1993, with Tom Towles, Natalia Nogulich, Thomas F. Wilson, Michael Bofshever, and Roxann Dawson), (with Harris Yulin, Vaughn Armstrong, Reg E. Cathey, Ann Magnuson, and Elizabeth Dennehy), (1996, with Christian Slater, Casey Biggs, Bob Gunton, Vyto Ruginis, Vince Deadrick, James MacDonald, and Kurtwood Smith), (with Noble Willingham, Heidi Swedberg, and Jack Shearer), The Substitute (with Cliff DeYoung), (1996, with Tony Todd and Tom Towles), (1997, starring Winona Ryder, with Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Leland Orser, and Nicole Sarah Fellows), and (with Harris Yulin).
In 2010, Cruz received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Guest Starring Role on Television for his part in . Fellow Trek actors Leonard Nimoy and Michelle Forbes were also nominated in this category. Cruz played drug distributor Tuco Salamanca, whose drug lord uncle was played by Mark Margolis. He reprised this role in the first and second seasons of , appearing in several episodes with Margolis and Jonathan Banks. The series also features fellow Trek actors Michael McKean, Ann Cusack, Patrick Fabian, Ed Begley, Jr., and star Ethan Phillips in a recurring role. 
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