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Smits was born in Brooklyn, New York. Smits's father, Cornelis Leendert Smits (1929–2015), was from Paramaribo, Suriname, and was of Dutch descent. [1] [2] [3] Smits's mother, Emilina (née Pola; 1930–2015), was Puerto Rican, born in Peñuelas. [4] [5] He and his two sisters, Yvonne and Diana, grew up in a working-class neighborhood.
Apr 2, 2014 · Early Life and Career. Born July 9, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York. Smits was the eldest of three children born to Emelina and Cornelis Smits. A second-generation American of mixed ancestry (his...
Feb 18, 2008 · Ethnicity: *father – Dutch-Surinamese. *mother – Puerto Rican. Jimmy Smits is an American actor. He is known for his roles on the series L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, and The West Wing, among many others in both television and film. His father, Cornelis Leendert Smits, was Surinamese, from Paramaribo, and had Dutch ancestry.
Jimmy L. Smits is an American actor. He is best known for playing attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s-1990s legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s-2000s police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing, and for appearing in Switch (1991), My Family (1995), and as ADA Miguel Prado in Dexter.
Jun 14, 2021 · Smits said he related deeply to the movie’s themes as a first-generation American (his father is from Suriname and his mother is from Puerto Rico) who was born in Brooklyn.
Jimmy L. Smits is an American actor. He is best known for playing attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s-1990s legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s-2000s police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing, and for appearing in Switch (1991), My Family (1995), and as ADA Miguel Prado in Dexter.
Jimmy Smits was born on July 9, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York in the US as the eldest child and only son of Cornelis Leendert Smits and Emilina (née Pola). His father was of Dutch descent and came from Paramaribo, Surinam, managed a silk-screening factory while his mother was a Puerto Rican.
Feb 22, 2024 · Jimmy’s ethnicity is Puerto Rican, and he spends most of his spare time there. Image source. Education and early life.
Emmy Award-winning television, film, and stage actor Jimmy Smits is one of a very small handful of highly visible Hispanic actors.
Jun 2, 2021 · Smits was born and primarily raised in Brooklyn, New York, to a Puerto Rican mother and a Surinamese father of Dutch descent. He is the eldest of three children.
