He starred in the Fox television series Alcatraz and played a minor character on ABC's Once Upon a Time.

Garcia also appeared on the cover of Weezer's 2010 album Hurley in a close-up shot from a photo he took with vocalist Rivers Cuomo.

His mother, Dora Mesa, is a Cuban-born professor, and his father, Humberto Garcia, is a Chilean-born doctor.

Garcia graduated from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1995 as a communication studies major.

[6][7] He later said that his first taste of street recognition came from starring in a Jack in the Box commercial which was aired frequently on local television.

[9] Garcia appeared in the second episode of the eighth season of Celebrity Poker Showdown, where he lost to Michael Ian Black.

On November 21, 2010, Entertainment Weekly announced that Garcia was cast in the upcoming U.S. television series Alcatraz.

[20] In 2015, he joined the cast of The Healer starring with British actors Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Camilla Luddington, and Jonathan Pryce.