
Acting
Jul 31, 1962
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Jesse Borrego
Acting
Biography
Jesse Borrego (born August 1, 1962, San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor of Mexican and Mescalero Apache descent, son of Jesse Borrego Sr., a conjunto accordion player and singer. He studied theatre and dance at the University of the Incarnate Word before earning a degree in Performance from the California Institute of the Arts in 1984. His career spans over four decades, beginning with the role of Jesse V. Velasquez on Fame (1984–1987), and he has also worked as a director and producer. He is married to actress Valeria Hernandez; they have one child. His most notable film credits include Blood In Blood Out (1993) (Benjamin Bratt, David Arquette), I Like It Like That (1994) (Edward James Olmos, Rosie Perez), Mi Vida Loca (1993) (Rosie Perez, Esai Morales), Follow Me Home (1996) (Dennis Quaid, Annette Bening), Lone Star (1996) (Chris Cooper, Robert Duvall), Con Air (1997) (Nicolas Cage, John Cusack), The New World (2005) (Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher), La Mission (2009) (Benjamin Bratt, Michael Madsen), and Colombiana (2011) (Zoe Saldana, Jamie Bell). On television he is best known as Gael Ortega in 24 (season 3) and George King in Dexter (season 3), with additional appearances in Fear the Walking Dead, American Crime, ER, and CSI: Miami.
Feature Films (30)

A nerdy teenage girl pretends to be her beautiful, fake twin sister from California in order to become the most popular girl in high school, but when things don't go exactly as planned she learns that being yourself is more important.
Teenage Girl: Valerie's Holiday

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Retroactive

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
Bound by Honor

Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the White House. Along the way they meet a mysterious Black woman. Together, these four men and one woman encounter racism, sexism, internal conflicts, and finally redemption as they discover their common humanity and their internal ability to conquer the societal ills that effect them all.
Follow Me Home

A single-parent ex-con in the Mission District of San Francisco finds his personal values challenged when he discovers his son is gay.
La Mission

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Colombiana

Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Francis Ford Coppola), a precocious 12-year-old navigates privilege and loneliness in a Manhattan hotel. And in "Oedipus Wrecks" (Woody Allen), a man’s domineering mother literally becomes a looming presence over New York.
New York Stories

Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
The Maker

A restless security guard, Lou, is forced to decide between his job at the research facility and the fate of humanity when he is confronted by the truth of what he is guarding.
Luminous

This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee indians, tries to do something. He plans a big indian state, and tries to win the English settlers over to this plan...
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior

An ex-convict teams with government agents to battle an advanced race bent on conquering Earth.
Hell Swarm

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
The New World
Television & Series (21)

An elite team of medical experts of the National Institutes of Health investigates unusual public-health crises, such as sudden outbreaks of serious and mysterious diseases.
Medical Investigation

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang are launched into the 21st century, with new mysteries to solve.
What's New, Scooby-Doo?

The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
CSI: Miami

An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. With a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although fictional, it was based heavily on the actual Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York. Most interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California, and in all seasons but the third, several exterior scenes were shot on location in New York City. The popularity of the series, particularly in the UK, led to several hit records and live concert tours by the cast. Despite its success, very few of the actors maintained high-profile careers after the series was cancelled. A number of the cast members were seen again briefly in Bring Back...Fame, a reunion special made for British television in 2008.







