Jorge Garcia Biography: Age, Weight Loss, Net Worth, Wife, Girlfriend, Height, Lookalike, Movies & TV Shows, Wiki

Biography

Jorge Garcia (born 28th April, 1973) is a gifted American actor, television personality and comedian.

He is very well recognized for his skilled acting and applauding role portrayal in all his movies.

He was brought to the limelight by his performance on the television show; Becker as Hector Lopez.

However, this was just the start of his career as he became popularly recognized for his role as Hugo ‘Hurley’ Reyes in the television series – Lost.

In addition, this gave him the name Hurley, and he was fondly addressed as Hurley for a long time.

Jorge Garcia was asked to shed some weight by the producers of the movie, Lost.

He didn’t let his weight crumble his ambition but instead rose to defeat it and successfully by sheding a lot of weight for the series.

As a result, he lives a healthy life and is now an inspiration and role model to many.

He is the winner of numbers of awards and active force in Hollywood.

In addition, he launched his podcast called the Kaiju Podcast.

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Wiki Facts & About Data
Full Name:	Jorge Garcia
Weight Loss:	Over 100 Pounds
Born:	28 April 1973 (age 51 years old)
Place of Birth:	Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Nationality:	American
Parents:	Dora Messa, Humberto Garcia
Height:	1.82 m
Siblings:	N/A
Girlfriend • Wife:	Bethany Leigh Shady (ex.) Rebecca Birdsall (m. 2019)
Occupation:	Actor • Comedian
Net Worth:	$5 Million

Early Life

Jorge Garcia was born in 1973 on the 28th day of April in Nebraska in the United States Of America.

He was born to Dora Messa, who is a Cuban-born Professor, and Humberto Garcia, who is a Chilean-born Doctor.

He had his childhood experience in the city of San Juan Capistrano in Orange County, California.

Jorge Garcia attended Clement High school, and there he was nicknamed Baby-faced Killer.

Upon his graduation as a senior, he was given the award of Triton of the year.

To further his education, he bagged his degree from the prestigious University of California, in 1995.

Afterward, he furthered to Acting school.

Education

Jorge Garcia attended Clement High school. Afterward, he studied Communication studies at the University of California and graduated in 1995.

He then took an interest in studying acting and proceeded to the Beverly Playhouse Acting School.

Career

Jorge Garcia is widely celebrated American actor, television personality and comedian. He started with his performance in the Television show Becker as Hector Lopez. However, the role of Hugo Hurley Reyes in the TV series, Lost gave him more popularity.

Luckily, he became the first actor, casting on the television series. In 2012, he was cast in the popular Fox series; Alcatraz. He played a role as Dr. Diego Soto, an Alcatraz expert. He was also seen as a guest star in season 4 episodes of Hawaii Five-0 until he had a promotion which made him to be the series season 5’s regular as Jerry Ortega.

Jorge Garcia had appeared in so many shows and is a co-producer and star in the film, When We Were Pirates, in which he played the role of Jerry. In addition, he hosted a weekly podcast alongside his then-girlfriend, Bethany Leigh Shady; there, he discussed Season 6 of the series.

During November, 2010, he made a cameo character on ‘How I Met Your Mother‘s episode ‘Blitzgiving.’ In 2011, he was also seen as a character in Mr. Sunshine.

On the 14th of November, 2016; he launched his biweekly podcast with Ralph Apel titled Kaiju Podcast.

Personal Life

Jorge Garcia is a married man. Before his marriage, he was known to be in a relationship with Bethany Leigh Shady.

He is presently married to Rebecca Birdsall; they got married on the 22nd of June, 2019.

She is an actress and is well known for her supporting roles in movies. She made an appearance in one of the episodes of Hawaii Five-0.

Social Media

Jorge Garcia is a well-known actor who many people like to look up to on social media. He is also very well engaged on social media. He is on Instagram @pronouncedhorhay with over 253k followers while he follows over 533 people.

Net Worth

As a very successful and award-winning actor, Jorge Garcia has bagged an estimated net worth of about $5million and still counting.

Filmography

• Raven’s Ridge (1997)
• Tomorrow by midnight (1999)
• King of open mics (2000)
• The slow and the cautious (2002)
• Tales from the crapper (2003)
• Our time is up (2004)
• The good humor man (2005)
• Deck the halls (2005)
• Sweetzer (2007
• Maktub (2011)
• Cooties (2014)
• The Wedding Ringer (2015)
• The ridiculous 6 (2015)
• Get a job (2016)
• Rock a dog (2016)
• The healer (2017)
• The wrong mussy (2020)
• Nobody knows I’m here (2020)