Emmy Award-winning television, film, and stage actor Jimmy Smits is one of a very small handful of highly visible Hispanic actors. A co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, an organization whose mission is to establish...

Jimmy Smits (born July 9, 1955) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning American actor, primarily in movies, soap operas and television. Smits is perhaps best known for his long-running roles on the 1980s legal drama L.A. Law as Richard Dysart's youngest...

Brooding, sensitive Latino Jimmy Smits will replace brooding, sensitive Irishman David Caruso as the central character of ABC's hot cop show "NYPD Blue." Sources at ABC confirmed yesterday that Smits, a former player on "L.A. Law," will replace Caruso afterthe fourth episode in...

Byline: STEPHEN SCHAEFER As narrator of Rosie Perez's provocative documentary on Puerto Rico (tonight at 9 on IFC), Jimmy Smits has gone from being "The West Wing's" presidential contender to the voice of history. Perez's years-in-the-making "!Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu...

"We approached our development this year with a specific goal in mind—to be daring and different," said Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment. "The Fall and mid-season series we have selected offer creativity and variety with great potential to excite and surprise television audiences everywhere." They’re...

THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB RUNNING TIME 106 minutesDIRECTED BY Robin SwicordSTARRING Maria Bello, Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker, Jimmy Smits Robin Swicord’s The Jane Austen Book Club, from her own screenplay, based on the eponymous novel by Karen Joy Fowler, succeeds only partially and only...