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Miguel Gomez (born August 20, 1985) is a Colombian-American actor and rapper who has successfully transitioned from the hip-hop world to becoming a respected dramatic presence in television and film. Originally performing under the name Aztek Escobar, he made history as the first artist signed to Jay-Z’s Roc-La-Familia label in the mid-2000s. He later pivoted to acting, earning his breakout role as Augustin "Gus" Elizalde in the FX horror series The Strain (2014–2017). His performance as a street-smart survivor fighting vampires brought him widespread acclaim, which he followed with a notable role as the boxer Miguel "Magic" Escobar in the 2015 sports drama Southpaw and a series regular role as Ivan Ortiz on CBS's FBI: Most Wanted (2020–2022).
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
