Jay Tavare
Illustration — Tavare in 2009 Jay Tavare is an American actor. He is known for portraying Vega in the 1994 film adaptation of the video game Street Fighter, and its video game tie-in.
Jay Tavare

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- 1968
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Television
Television
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2005 — Into the West — Chief Prairie Fire — Episode: "Manifest Destiny" • 2008 — CSI: Miami — Manny Ortega — Episode: "Going Ballistic" • 2012 — Longmire — Reuben Lamebull — Episode: "Dogs, Horses and Indians" • 2021 — Masters of the Universe: Revelation — Wundar (voice) — Episode: "The Most Dangerous Man in Eternia"
Video games
Video games
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1995 — Street Fighter: The Movie — Vega — Console • 1995 — Street Fighter: The Movie — Vega — Arcade • 2005 — Gun — Stone Hand / Native American 2 • 2009 — Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood — Running River • 2010 — Red Dead Redemption — Pedestrian / Background Character • 2015 — Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain — Code Talker • 2024 — Batman: Arkham Shadow — CO Martinez
Film
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1994 — Street Fighter — Vega • 1996 — Executive Decision — Nabill • 1999 — Unbowed — Waka Mani • 2000 — Escape to Grizzly Mountain — Tukayoo • 2002 — Adaptation — Matthew Osceola • 2003 — The Missing — Kayitah • 2003 — Cold Mountain — Swimmer • 2003 — El Padrino — Special Agent Sanchez • 2007 — Pathfinder — Black Wing • 2008 — Turok: Son of Stone — Koba — Voice, direct-to-video • 2011 — Vatos Locos — Jimmy Cavera — Direct-to-video • 2014 — Off Track — Pui — Short • 2015 — The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) — Inmate 346 • 2015 — Bone Tomahawk — Sharp Teeth • 2015 — The Revenant — Uncredited • 2015 — The Fifth Sum — Moctezuma
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- 1.Harrington, Richard. Movies; 'Fighter': Stay Home With The Joystick. The Washington Post. December 24, 1994.
- 2.Ebert, Roger. Magnificent Obsession. Chicago Sun-Times. September 19, 2008.
- 3.Pillay, Suzanna. A family lost, and found. New Straits Times. March 6, 2004.
- 4.Wilmington, Michael. 9th Century path strewn with a lot of blood, guts. Chicago Tribune. April 13, 2007.
- 5.Jay Tavare (visual voices guide). Behind The Voice Actors.
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