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Jimmy Smits has come a long way from the tough New York City neighborhoods where he grew up. Born to mom Emelina, a nurse, and dad Cornelis, a manufacturing supervisor, Smits moved with his family to the South Bronx and all over Brooklyn. “It was pretty rough,” he says of the East New York neighborhood where he went to high school. But perhaps the most pivotal moment of his life happened when he was 10 and his family moved to Puerto Rico. “It was like out of the frying pan, into the fire,”…

Jimmy Smits as Matthew Santos in The West Wing

Halle Berry and Jimmy Smits in "Solomon and Sheba" 1995

This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Ri...

"I like the gypsy aspect of this business." - Jimmy Smits

Jimmy Smits stars as Kevin Rosario in In the Heights, which is now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max