Jimmy Smits who was born on July 9, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, United States is an American actor having a perfect height of 6 feet and 2 inches. Currently his age is 61 years old. By ethnic he is from American ethnicity. Jimmy once played role of attorney Victor Sifuentes on the legal drama L.A Law on the 1980s, and on 1990s NYPD Detective Bobby Simone in police drama NYPD Blue. Smits appeared in the star Wars prequel trilogy rolling as Bail Organa and ADA Miguel Prado in Dexter. He then joined the main cast of the Sons of Anarchy as high level pimp Nero Padilla in the year 2012.
Actually Jimmy is the name he got on his birth and enlisted in his birth certificate rather names Jim or James. Jimmy’s father and both Cornelis Leendert Smits and Emilina were from Paramaribo, Suriname and Puerto Rican. All together Jimmy has two sisters Diana and Yvonne they grew up in a working-class neighborhood and had spent their time in Puerto Rico during his childhood. Later he identified himself as Puerto Rican and was raised in a strict devout catholic family. Jimmy frequently visits the island though he was born in New York, as he has deep Puerto Rican roots looking to Jimmy’s education qualification he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School when he was also an athlete. In 1980 jimmy successfully earned a bachelor’s degree from the Brooklyn College and an MFA from Cornell University in 1982.
Jimmy started his career by an early role played representing Eddie Rivera in the series premiere of Miami Vice which was of two hour in 1984.
by an early role played representing Eddie Rivera in the series premiere of Miami Vice which was of two hour in 1984. He portrays the role of Sonny Crockett’s original partner, who was killed in a sting gone wrong. As time passed Later on Smits played the role of Victor Sifuntes in the first five seasons of the long-running legal drama L.A Law. Adding more, Smits played in Pee-wee’s Playhouse as a repairman and also starred in the multigenerational story of a Chicano family in the film named My family of 1995, alongside presenting Edward James Olmos and Jennifer Lopez. Smits got married on 1981 until 1987 when he divorce with his wife Barbara Smits who was from High school. Jimmy was in relationship with his girlfriend Wanda De Jesus or best known as his partner. Once in the news that Smits is gay went viral on the internet which was just a rumor not much than that. It probably must have been flowed by his some disliking fans.
As jimmy is getting famous day by day most of his recent or all time information, wiki can be found on some popular wiki sites like Wikipedia and IMDb. Though most of his personal details cannot be found on internet, his some relevant information is easily found on internet. Jimmy once uploaded a shirtless picture of his own on Twitter which went viral. As many growing personality does, even Jimmy uses social networking sites like Twitter account with followers counting 1k followers though he doesn’t uses Instagram most of his recent pictures are uploaded by him in his tweets. Jimmy Smits seems to be earning very well as he has net worth of $25 million dollars.