Jesse Garcia, Quinceañera

It's rare for a young Latino actor to play a sympathetic gay. For Wyoming native Jesse Garcia, who has a breakthrough turn in the Sundance prize-winning Quinceañera as a gay Latino who becomes the third wheel with a gay power couple, the sexual frankness was never an issue. Shaving his head to look like a cholo, however, was. He worried - foolishly as it turns out - that his head wasn't good enough to be seen naked. A social activist, Garcia can also be seen co-starring with Kyra Sedgwick in her hit TNT series, The Closer.

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