Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs is a fictional character from the Miami Vice television series. Tubbs was originally portrayed by Philip Michael Thomas in the television series from 1984 to 1990, and later by Jamie Foxx in the feature film in 2006.

Philip Michael Thomas (born May 26, 1949) is a retired American actor and musician, best known for his role as detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series Miami Vice. His first notable roles were in Coonskin (1975) and opposite Irene Cara in the 1976 film Sparkle.

Detective Sergeant Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs (born May 26, 1949) was an officer with the Metro-Dade Police Department, working undercover in the Organized Crime Bureau, Vice Division. He was the partner of Detective Sergeant James "Sonny" Crockett .

The series stars Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from September 16, 1984 to June 28, 1989.

Mar 9, 2024 · Philip Michael Thomas is an American retired actor and musician with an estimated net worth of $3 million. In 1984, Thomas took on the role of Ricardo Tubbs, a former NYPD officer hailing from the Bronx, who ventures to Miami to avenge his brother Rafael Tubbs’ death.

Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs (played by Jamie Foxx, b. 1973) is a Detective of the Miami-Dade Police Department and an undercover detective in the Organized Crime Bureau - Vice Division in the film adaptation of the Miami Vice television series.

Philip Michael Thomas (born May 26, 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American actor, best known for his role as Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs in Miami Vice. He is of German, Native American, African-American and Irish ancestry.

Philip Michael Thomas - the multi-talented performer best known as Detective Rico Tubbs in the iconic 1980s TV series Miami Vice (1984) - made his Broadway debut in 1971 in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play No Place to Be Somebody...and hasn't looked back since.

Mar 23, 2023 · In 1984, Thomas began playing Ricardo Tubbs, a former NYPD cop from the Bronx who comes to Miami to take revenge on the man who killed his brother Rafael Tubbs. In Miami, he meets another undercover cop, Sonny Crockett, who is …

Miami detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs go after the Columbian cartel and anyone else smuggling drugs and guns into 1980s Miami. And they look good doing it: driving the cars and wearing the suits seized from the drug dealers they put behind bars.