From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Algenis Perez Soto is a young Dominican actor. He was discovered playing a casual game of baseball with friends in the Dominican Republic and chosen to star in his first acting role ever, Sugar, a movie about a baseball player’s struggle to rise from amateur playing to the major leagues, and to lift himself and his family from poverty to plenty. Description above from the Wikipedia article Algenis Perez Soto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.