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Jose Yenque is an American actor who appeared in the films The Blue Diner (2001), Miss Bala (2011), won an ALMA Award for his role in Traffic (2000), and an Imagen Award for his role in Between (2007).
In 1995, Yenque did a play called El Cano with Ed Trucco. In 1999, on the set of The Blue Diner, Esra Gaffin said Yenque had prepped for a different role, mentioning he had the ability from previous roles to handle several types of firearms.
In 2001, Yenque and fellow actors Marisol Padilla Sanchez, Majandra Delfino, and Jacob Vargas won Outstanding Latino Cast in a Feature Film for Traffic at the ALMA Awards. In 2007, Yenque won Ambassador of the Year at the 11th International Hispanic Awards. He said that because the acting roles he was doing gave latinos bad representation, he began to donate money to a Tijuana orphanage. In 2012, he founded Arts for a Better Tomorrow, bringing change to orphanages in Baja California.
In 2020, Yenque helped raised funds during a virtual reading of Flowers Behind the Mountain by Barbara Bennion, benfiting the Artes Para un Mejor Mañana foundation. Yenque starred alongside Paco Mufote in Contratiempo.
| 1997 | Fall | Scasse | |
| 2000 | Traffic | Salazar Soldier | |
| 2001 | The Blue Diner | Tito | |
| 2002 | The Zeta Project | Security Guard (voice) | Episode: "The Wrong Morph" A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. |
| 2002–2003 | Justice League | Copperhead (voice) | 4 episodes |
| 2004 | Justice League Unlimited | Copperhead (voice) | Episode: "Kids' Stuff" |
| 2004 | Puños Rosas | German Corona | |
| Wednesday Afternoon | Alberto | Short film, Student Academy Award winner | |
| 2005 | Between | Det. Gustavo Campos | |
| 2006 | Broken | Luis Morales | |
| Waist Deep | Agent Lopez | ||
| 2007 | I Believe in America | Leo | |
| 2010 | Beginners | Robert | |
| 2011 | Miss Bala | Kike Camara | |
| 2017 | All About the Money | Juan Armando Garcia | |
| 2022 | Contratiempo | Taylor |
| ALMA Award | 2001 | Traffic | Outstanding Latino Cast in a Feature Film | ||
| International Hispanic Awards | 2007 | Sol Azteca Award – Ambassador of the Year | |||
| Maverick Movie Awards | 2009 | Bloom | Best Supporting Actor: Short | ||
| Highland Park Independent Film Festival | 2010 | Humanitarian Award | |||
| HOLA Awards | HOLA Ilka Award of Humanitarian | ||||
| California State University San Marcos | 2011 | Doctorate of Fine Arts Honorary Degree | |||
| Imagen Awards | 2007 | Between | Best Supporting Actor - Television | ||
| 2012 | Miss Bala | Best Supporting Actor/Feature Film |
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