INTRODUCING JORGE GABINO

Jorge is a Puerto Rican first-time actor, a devoted Spanish domino player, and a proud New Yorker. He is a retiree from the City’s sanitation department, where he worked for over 25 years, and a beloved Wise Tower community member in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He met Kevin and Youmi Haefelin, who noticed him while scouting locations and agreed to act in the film THE FUSE after relating to “Cassius” the main character. 

“I don’t want to be in a movie, but I want to play this part, because it’s me, it’s my life.”

– Jorge Gabino

He has won The Best Actor Grand Prize award at the Rhodes Island int Film Festival and strives to be a spokesperson for mental health awareness.