High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hugo "Hurley" Reyes is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jorge Garcia. For most of the time, Reyes has served as the show`s comic relief, but throughout the run of the series, most notably in the final season, the show has shown him in a more serious light. He takes over as the Island`s protector from Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) then takes Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson) as his adviser, the same way Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) took Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell).