Jimmy Smits
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican actor (born 1955)
Jimmy L. Smits is an American actor. A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing and Bail Organa in the Star Wars franchise.
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As an artist I want to try to be as versatile as possible. I’ve had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.
On his role in Sons of Anarchy in “Jimmy Smits | Interview” in Time Out (2012 Dec 26)
I'm told L.A. Law's success - the fact that his ethnicity was very much part of his identity and he was a great lawyer - caused an increase in applicants to law schools.
On the legacy of his role as Victor Sifuentes in L.A. Law in “Jimmy Smits Returns to NBC With New Law Series” in AARP Magazine (2019 Sep 19)
As an immigrant first-generation family here in this country, it wasn't about safe choices, it was about realistic choices.
On how his parents initially wanted him to have a more traditional occupation in “Jimmy Smits Returns to NBC With New Law Series” in AARP
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
The Tax Collector
In the Heights
The Believers
The Jane Austen Book Club
The Million Dollar Hotel
Switch
Bless the Child
Running Scared
Mother and Child
My Family
Vital Signs
Who We Are Now
Old Gringo
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
Lackawanna Blues
Backyard
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Mickey's 60th Birthday
America | A Tribute to Heroes
The Cisco Kid
Gross Misconduct
Fires Within
Marshal Law
Murder in Mind
Solomon & Sheba
Price of Glory
Lesser Prophets
Hotshot
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Rockabye
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
Animal Charm: Golden Digest
Glitz
The Broken Cord
Adventures in Wild California
Stamp of a Killer
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western92 credits on file
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Dexter
Sons of Anarchy
Saturday Night Live
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The West Wing
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The View
NYPD Blue
How to Get Away with Murder
Miami Vice
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Golden Globe Awards
L.A. Law
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Tony Awards
Dexter: Resurrection
Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Oscars
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Today
Spenser: For Hire
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildAwards 3
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About this person
Jimmy L. Smits is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Attorney Victor Sifuentes on the legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing and Bail Organa in the Star Wars franchise. He has also appeared as ADA Miguel Prado in Dexter, Nero Padilla in Sons of Anarchy and Elijah Strait in Bluff City Law, and appeared in the films Switch (1991), My Family (1995), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), and In the Heights (2021).
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