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Sebastian DeVicente

American actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16204024 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sebastian DeVicente (September 14th, 1971 - March 17th, 2016) was a trilingual actor (English, Spanish, Portuguese) mostly known for playing bad boys and off-beat characters. Some of his film credits include The City of Lost Souls (2000), a Japanese film directed by cinematic master Takashi Miike also starring Michelle Reis, Koji Kikkawa, and Terence Yin, and Dead in the Water (2002), a Lions Gate release directed by Gustavo Lipsztein also starring Dominique Swain, Henry Thomas, and Scott Bairstow.

In 2003, a nearly fatal motorcycle accident forced the young actor away from his career in Hollywood.

He died on March 17, 2016 due to unspecified circumstances.

Editorial summary

“Sebastian DeVicente” enters the record as american actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sebastian, DeVicente and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 2016, 2000, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sebastian, DeVicente and American.
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“Sebastian DeVicente” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sebastian, DeVicente and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16204024. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971, 2016, 2000 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sebastian DeVicente” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.