Victor Rasuk
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Victor Rasuk (born January 15, 1984) is an American actor.
Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York of Dominican descent.[1] He has a brother, Silvestre.[2] Rasuk went to a performing arts school as a teenager, and began acting at 14. He got his first movie role at 16 in Five Feet High and Rising. The film -- less than 30 minutes long -- was a hit at the Independent Spirit Film Festival. Two years later, the same director, Peter Sollett, asked him to expand the short film into a feature-length movie: Raising Victor Vargas, which went on to win Rasuk an Independent Spirit Award for his work. In his next film, Rock Steady, he played a character named Roc. Two years later, he took a leading role in Haven with Orlando Bloom.
In 2005, Lords of Dogtown was released, with Victor playing Tony Alva, one of the leading roles. The part included surfing and performing skateboarding tricks. Although all of the more complicated maneuvers were performed by stunt men (including the scenes of surfing at Pacific Ocean Park pier and skating in empty swimming pools), Rasuk is a method actor and tried to become his character both on and off screen. Thinking he had mastered a huge skate ramp in only his second week of training, Rasuk fractured one of his orbital bones.[3] Rasuk says the accident only served to bring him more respect from the real-life skaters in the cast and crew.
He has a number of upcoming films in production.
[edit] Filmography
- Five Feet High and Rising (2000): Victor
- The Soft Parade (short, 2001) Shakespeare NYU
- Raising Victor Vargas aka Long Way Home (2002): Victor Vargas
- Rock Steady (2002): Roc
- Undefeated (2003): Street Kid
- Haven (2004): Fritz
- Lords of Dogtown (2005): Tony Alva
- I'm Reed Fish (2006): Frank Cortez
- Bonneville (2006): Bo Douglas
- Emil (2006)
- Spinning Into Butter (2007): Patrick Chibas
- Adrift in Manhattan (2007): Simon Colon
- Feel the Noise (2007): Javi
- Stop-Loss (2008): Rico Rodriguez
- The Argentine (2008): Rogelio Acevedo
- Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2008): Manny
- Keep Coming Back (2008)
