Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
and
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
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Sandoval was born in
Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
He began working as a professional actor in 1975 when he joined a
mimeA mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer...
school in Albuquerque,
New MexicoNew Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S...
. He later joined the troupe full time and continued his study of pantomime. He began his film career in the early 1980s. He had small roles in such acclaimed films
Do the Right ThingDo the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the hottest day of the summer...
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Jungle FeverJungle Fever is a 1991 drama film directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. It was Lee's fifth feature-length film.-Plot:...
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Jurassic ParkJurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs...
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Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
and
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
.
Sandoval was born in
Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
He began working as a professional actor in 1975 when he joined a
mimeA mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer...
school in Albuquerque,
New MexicoNew Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S...
. He later joined the troupe full time and continued his study of pantomime. He began his film career in the early 1980s. He had small roles in such acclaimed films
Do the Right ThingDo the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the hottest day of the summer...
,
Jungle FeverJungle Fever is a 1991 drama film directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. It was Lee's fifth feature-length film.-Plot:...
, and
Jurassic ParkJurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs...
. After appearing in
Clear and Present DangerClear and Present Danger is a 1994 film directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the book of the same name by Tom Clancy. It is a 1994 sequel to the 1992 film Patriot Games and was followed by a 2002 sequel The Sum of All Fears....
in 1994, he began to take on larger roles, and appeared in
Get ShortyGet Shorty is a 1990 novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard. In 1995, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name.-Plot summary:...
,
Up Close & PersonalUp Close & Personal is a 1996 American motion picture drama/romance that was inspired by the story of Jessica Savitch who, in the 1970s, became the first female anchor on American television...
, and
BlowBlow is a 2001 drama/biopic film about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme . David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay...
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Having appeared briefly in
Repo Man and
Sid and NancySid and Nancy is a 1986 film directed by Alex Cox. The film materialized during a time of renewed interest in the period of punk rock, heroin addiction and specifically the life of Sid Vicious...
, Sandoval has also played the major roles of Treviranus (in
Death and the Compass) and Bennie Reyes (in
Three BusinessmenThree Businessmen is a film made in 1998. It is a British-Dutch-Spanish-Japanese coproduction directed by Alex Cox. The screenplay is by Tod Davies, who was also the producer....
) for director
Alex CoxAlexander Cox is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox has previously cited Luis Buñuel and Akira Kurosawa as influences, as well as the great Western movie directors Sergio Leone, Sam...
. In addition to film, Sandoval has acted in numerous television shows, often in recurring roles. Though shows such as
The Court and
KingpinKingpin is an American crime/drama mini-series which debuted on the NBC network in the U.S. and CTV in Canada on February 2, 2003 and lasted 6 episodes. NBC's answer to The Sopranos and also influenced by The Godfather, Macbeth and Traffik, the story was about a Mexican drug trafficker named...
failed, he found a success with
MediumMedium is an American supernatural and dramatic television series which premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005. Its focus is Allison DuBois , who acts as a research medium for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...
in 2005, where he currently plays
D.A.In many jurisdictions in the United States, a District Attorney is the appointed public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged offense criminals. The district attorney is the highest officeholder in the jurisdiction's legal department and supervises a staff of...
Manuel Devalos. Sandoval's other guest starring roles include appearances in popular series such as
FrasierFrasier is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Paramount Television.A spin-off from Cheers, Frasier stars Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist...
,
The X-FilesThe X-Files is an American cult science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. It first aired in September 1993 and ended in May 2002...
,
SeinfeldSeinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
and
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of SupermanLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is a live-action American television series based on the Superman comic books...
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Filmography
- Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swan
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, directed by William Dear, is a 1982 time travel movie starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer...
(1982)
- Repo Man (1984)
- Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck is an American comedy science fiction film, directed by Willard Huyck and produced by George Lucas. Loosely based on the comic book of the same name, the film focuses on Howard, an alien from a planet inhabited by anthropomorphic ducks, is transported to Earth, where he meets...
(1986)
- Sid and Nancy
Sid and Nancy is a 1986 film directed by Alex Cox. The film materialized during a time of renewed interest in the period of punk rock, heroin addiction and specifically the life of Sid Vicious...
(1986)
- Walker
Walker is an acid western by British director Alex Cox based on the life story of William Walker , the American adventurer who invaded Mexico in the 1850s and made himself President of Nicaragua shortly thereafter. It was written by Rudy Wurlitzer and scored by Joe Strummer, who also plays a small...
(1987)
- Straight to Hell (1987)
- Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the hottest day of the summer...
(1989)
- Jungle Fever
Jungle Fever is a 1991 drama film directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. It was Lee's fifth feature-length film.-Plot:...
(1991)
- Ricochet
Ricochet is a 1991 crime-thriller film, directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, and Lindsay Wagner...
(1991)
- White Sands
White Sands is a 1992 motion picture directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros.. The movie is about a small U.S. southwestern town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation...
(1992)
- Death and the Compass (1992)
- Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs...
(1993)
- Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Death Wish V: The Face of Death is a 1994 action thriller, and the fourth and final sequel to the 1974 film Death Wish. Despite vowing that Death Wish 4 would be the final film in this series, Bronson returned to reprise the role of Paul Kersey one final time for this film, his final theatrical...
(1994)
- Clear and Present Danger
Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 film directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the book of the same name by Tom Clancy. It is a 1994 sequel to the 1992 film Patriot Games and was followed by a 2002 sequel The Sum of All Fears....
(1994)
- Fair Game (1995)
- Get Shorty
Get Shorty is a 1990 novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard. In 1995, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name.-Plot summary:...
(1995)
- Murder One
Murder One is a television series first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. In the United Kingdom it appeared on Sky One during the first half of 1996...
(1996)
- Up Close & Personal
Up Close & Personal is a 1996 American motion picture drama/romance that was inspired by the story of Jessica Savitch who, in the 1970s, became the first female anchor on American television...
(1996)
- Mrs. Winterbourne
Mrs. Winterbourne is a 1996 romantic comedy/drama starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, and Brendan Fraser. This movie is loosely based on the Cornell Woolrich novel I Married A Dead Man, which has already been filmed in Hollywood as No Man of Her Own starring Barbara Stanwyck.-Plot synopsis:With...
(1996)
- Three Businessmen
Three Businessmen is a film made in 1998. It is a British-Dutch-Spanish-Japanese coproduction directed by Alex Cox. The screenplay is by Tod Davies, who was also the producer....
(1998)
- The Crew
The Crew is a 2000 film, directed by Michael Dinner and starring Burt Reynolds, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Hedaya, Jennifer Tilly and Seymour Cassel. Barry Sonnenfeld was one of the film's producers...
(2000)
- Panic
Panic is a 2000 movie, starring William H. Macy, Neve Campbell, Donald Sutherland and John Ritter.-Plot:Alex , a sad-eyed mournful man, goes into psychotherapy: he discloses he's a hit man. He also tells the doctor , after a few sessions, that he's attracted to a young woman he's met in the waiting...
(2000)
- Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her is a film written and directed by Rodrigo García Barcha starring an ensemble cast. The plot focuses on different women dealing with their life problems. Garcia's debut film was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain Regard Award...
(2000)
- Blow
Blow is a 2001 drama/biopic film about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme . David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay...
(2001)
- Wild Iris (2001)
- Alias
Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
(4 episodes, 2001)
- Gotta Kick It Up!
Gotta Kick It Up is a Disney Channel Original Movie. In the US, it was first aired July 26, 2002 and garnered 1.18 million viewers. It is based on a true story of a middle school dance team.-Plot:...
(2002)
- Collateral Damage
Collateral Damage is a American action film which tells the story of a Los Angeles firefighter, Gordon Brewer , who looks to avenge his son's and wife's deaths at the hands of a guerrilla commando, by traveling to Colombia and facing his family's killers.-Plot:The movie begins inside a burning...
(2002)
- The Court (2002) TV series
- Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a 2002 action film starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. Liu and Banderas play opposing secret agents who are supposedly enemies, but team up during the movie. The film was universally panned by critics, who generally regarded it as having no redeeming features, not...
(2003)
- Kingpin
Kingpin is an American crime/drama mini-series which debuted on the NBC network in the U.S. and CTV in Canada on February 2, 2003 and lasted 6 episodes. NBC's answer to The Sopranos and also influenced by The Godfather, Macbeth and Traffik, the story was about a Mexican drug trafficker named...
(2003) TV series
- 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003) TV series
- Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School is a 2005 comedy-drama-musical-romance film produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films and directed by Randall Miller. It is based on a 1990 short film of the same name also featuring Elden Henson.-Plot:...
(2005)
- Nine Lives
Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery,...
(2005)
- Tortilla Heaven
Tortilla Heaven is an independent comedy film written and directed by Judy Hecht Dumontet. It was first released in theaters on March 16, 2007 in Los Angeles.-Plot:...
(2005)
- Medium
Medium is an American supernatural and dramatic television series which premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005. Its focus is Allison DuBois , who acts as a research medium for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...
(2005-present) TV series
- Bottle Shock
Bottle Shock is a 2008 film that tells the story of the events that led up to the Judgment of Paris in 1976, when California wine beat French wine in a blind taste test. It stars Alan Rickman, Chris Pine and Bill Pullman and is directed by Randall Miller, who wrote the screenplay along with Jody...
(2008)
- The Closer
The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who arrives in Los Angeles to lead the Priority Murder Squad , a team that deals only with high profile murder cases...
(2009) guest star (episode 5.2) TV series
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