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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Jimmy Smits (1955 - ) Biography from Baseline Occupation: Actor Born: July 9, 1955, Brooklyn, NY Education: Brooklyn College, NY (education); Cornell, Ithaca, NY (theater) Tall, commanding Latino actor with a powerful but lean build and a sharply-sculpted face with extremely high cheekbones, best known as Victor Sifuentes on NBC-TV's L.A. Law (1986-1994). Smits was a community organizer in his native New York before he switched to acting. He appeared in small roles with the New York Shakespeare Festival and several regional theaters before playing Don Johnson's partner, who gets killed, on the 1984 series pilot for Miami Vice. Small parts in TV-movies and a role as the villain in the action comedy DOS POLICIAS EN APUROS (1986) followed, and success as the fiery but smart Sifuentes came soon thereafter. Smits received a supporting actor Emmy nomination every year he was on L.A. Law, eventually winning the award in 1990. Smits first attempted to parlay his small screen success into feature leads when he acted opposite Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda as an emotionally divided young Mexican general at the time of Pancho Villa's 1913 revolution in GRINGO VIEJO (1989), but, despite respectful reviews, the film didn't do much business. Blake Edwards' UNA RUBIA CAIDA DEL CIELO (1991), meanwhile, a middling rehash of the oft-used magical gender switcheroo idea, didn't even get good reviews. Smits, though, kept busy in the acclaimed TV-movie about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, THE BROKEN CORD (1992), and the miniseries Stephen King's LOS TOMMYKNOCKERS (1993), and continued fighting for a wider range of roles and more sympathetic treatment of Latino issues by the media. He returned to series TV in 1994 when he joined the cast of the provocative and intense police drama NYPD Blue to fill the gap left by departing series star David Caruso. 1986 ROCKABYE performer 1987 THE BELIEVERS performer 1987 THE HIGHWAYMAN performer 1988 GLITZ performer 1992 GROSS MISCONDUCT performer
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