Jazz Vilá

Actor, Director, Screenwriter and Performance Coach

El Paso, Texas

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About Jazz

Jazz Vila es un actor, director, productor y dramaturgo, nacido en La Habana, Cuba el 21 de agosto de 1984.

Inició su carrera profesional a los 14 años en la telenovela Las Huérfanas de la Obrapía. En 2004 se gradúa en la prestigiosa Escuela de Artes Escénicas de Cuba. Desde entonces ha desarrollado una amplia carrera artística que lo ha llevado por varios países de Europa y América. Es fundador y CEO de la compañía Jazz Vila Projects. En 2015 la revista VISTAR lo incluyó en la lista de los seis actores jóvenes más recurrentes del cine cubano.

En el teatro destacan sus interpretaciones en piezas como Ícaros, La loca de Chaillot, Calígula (Carlos Díaz) y Carmen Jones, el musical (Cristopher Renshaw). Aunque su reconocimiento ha sido gracias al cine, en películas como El Acompañante (Pavel Giroud), Fátima o el parque de la Fraternidad (Jorge Perugorria) Personal Belongings y Juan de los Muertos (Alejandro Brugués). Su actuación en esta última con el personaje de ‘’la China’’ le ha valido el favor de la crítica, el público, la candidatura a la nominación de los premios Goya (España) como “mejor actor revelación” y una nominación como “mejor actor de cine” a los premios de la revista Shangay (España).

Por su creciente nivel artístico ha sido invitado a prestigiosos encuentros como el Festival de Avignon (Francia), el Talent Corner de jóvenes actores en la 64 edición del Festival de Cannes (Francia), el Talent Campus Guadalajara 2012 (México) y el Berlinale Talent 2014 (Alemania).

Jazz ha ofrecido su imagen para diversas organizaciones y campanas benéficas como el calendario de la fundación que investiga la enfermedad del ELA (Fundela) y la Fundación Aladina que apoya a niños y adolescentes.

Actualmente Vilá alterna sus compromisos profesionales con la formación artística de nuevos talentos a través de sus Workshops.

Gender:
Male

Height:
1' 8"

Weight:
64

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Black

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Mixed

Certifications

Photos

Con Antonio Dechent, Andrea Duro, Alexis Diaz de Villegas y Alejandro Brugués. Festival de Sitges 2011

Con Damian Alcazar. Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara 2012

Credits

Skam España (2018)
TV Series Actor
Paquita Salas (2018)
TV Series Actor
Four Seasons in Havana (2016)
TV Mini Actor
Caballos (2015)
Film (Drama) Actor Caballos talks about marginal characters, virtually none will assists. Scenarios decadent, full of the weariness and boredom are the days that we played in luck. This work aims to delve into the contradictions of a society: immobility, loss of illusion, the collapse of the Revolution program. Cuban Film productions in recent years have been characterized mostly by a formal and thematic lightness, seeking to establish a clearly visible manner 'here and now.' Underestimates the average viewer with narrative entertainment facility that most elementary aspire. Disbelieve the claims of aesthetic styles and trends to contemporary cinema. He denies that which is different from the canon and official discourse. We need an auteur cinema, lack the voice generational dialogue with oxygenated and art that does not represent us. There are few spaces that support the production of new filmmakers. Caballos tries to reflect from the provocation. Its greatest strength lies in the exploration of form ...
El acompañante (2015)
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Fátima o el Parque de la Fraternidad (2015)
Film Actor
El rey de La Habana (2015)
Film (Drama) Actor Add a Plot »
Kult (2015)
TV Series Actor
Venice (2014)
Film (Drama) Actor Havana, summer of 2012. Mayelín, Mónica and Violeta are three friends employed in a hairdressing salon. On payday they spend a night out on the town together, and at dawn they share a common dream: Venice.
Omega 3 (2014)
Film (Sci-Fi) Actor Nick es un soldado del ejército Veg, escogido por su oficial superior, junto a otros dos compañeros suyos... See full synopsis »
Juan of the Dead (2011)
Film (Action, Comedy and Horror) Actor Juan is a slacker trying to reconnect with his daughter, who plans to rejoin her mother in Miami. Lazaro, Juan's friend, is trying to connect with his own son, a persistent womanizer. They begin to notice that locals are "going crazy", killing people and eating their flesh, and the recently deceased are returning to life. The Cuban government and the media claim that the zombies are dissidents revolting against the government. Juan starts a business to profit off of killing the zombies, but the group may soon find their own lives at risk. Written by Anonymous
El cumpleaños (2006)
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Personal Belongings (2006)
Film (Drama) Actor Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of leaving Cuba. These Star-crossed lovers long to be together, they are pulled apart by different dreams rooted in different countries. In his directorial debut, Alejandro Brugués offers his personal view on the insistently revisited theme in Cuban art and literature - emigration and the laceration that it implies. Written by R. Yeager
Blues por la muerte de un capitán (2003)
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Las huérfanas de la Obra Pía (2000)
Television (Romance) Actor Add a Plot »
Hotel Coppelia
Actor