Puerto Rican Actors
by river-37 | created - 26 Jun 2011 | updated - 10 Feb 2012 | PublicOrgullo Boricua! Actors in Hollywood with Puerto Rican roots
1. Benicio Del Toro
Actor | Sicario
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).
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from Puerto Rico
2. Raul Julia
Actor | Street Fighter
Raul Julia was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Olga Arcelay, a mezzo-soprano singer, and Raúl Juliá, an electrical engineer. He graduated from Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola High School in San Juan. Here he studied the rigorous classical curriculum of the Jesuits and was always active ...
from Puerto Rico
3. Ramón Rodríguez
Actor | Will Trent
Ramón Rodríguez was born on December 20, 1979 in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. He is an actor and producer, known for Will Trent (2023), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Battle Los Angeles (2011).
from Puerto Rico
4. Jimmy Smits
Actor | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
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...
Puerto Rican mother
5. Shalim Ortiz
Actor | All Rise
Shalim Ortiz is a Puerto Rican artist that has been one of the few Latino actors of his generation to successfully establish himself both in the English and Spanish markets. Working throughout the arts, Shalim has received critical acclaim in acting (television & film), theatre & as a recording ...
from Puerto Rico
6. Amaury Nolasco
Actor | Prison Break
Amaury Nolasco was born in Puerto Rico. He is an actor and producer, known for Prison Break (2005), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) and Transformers (2007).
from Puerto Rico
7. Luis Guzmán
Actor | Traffic
Actor of Puerto Rican descent who gained fame making many memorable films in the 1980s and 1990s due to his villainous physical appearance. Guzmán was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico on August 28, 1956 and raised in New York City's Greenwich Village and the surrounding Lower East Side neighborhood. His ...
from Puerto Rico
8. Renoly Santiago
Actor | Hackers
Renoly Santiago was born in Lajas, Puerto Rico and he spent his childhood in Union City, New Jersey. Before establishing himself as an accomplished entertainer, Renoly started singing, acting, dancing and writing early on, following his calling while very young; earning a dance scholarship to the ...
from Puerto Rico
9. José Ferrer
Actor | The Caine Mutiny
José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Ferrer was the first Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Award, and also the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.
In 1912, Ferrer was...
from Puerto Rico
10. Carlos Ponce
Actor | Couples Retreat
Award-winning actor, singer, songwriter, composer and TV personality, the multifaceted Carlos Ponce has enjoyed a storied career in the entertainment industry. Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Carlos made his acting debut at the age of six. Since then he has starred in numerous productions on small ...
from Puerto Rico
11. Paul Calderon
Actor | King of New York
Paul Calderon was born in 1959 in Puerto Rico. He is an actor and producer, known for King of New York (1990), Four Rooms (1995) and Pulp Fiction (1994). He has been married to Catherine E Salsich since 1986. They have two children.
from Puerto Rico
12. Julian Acosta
Actor | The Lords of Salem
From Jesus Christ and Johnny Ramone, to a violently brilliant billionaire and a libidinous priest, all the way to gritty cops, international drug lords, straight laced lawyers, gay hustlers, crooked doctors and razor sharp political animals, Julian Acosta has been a part of some of television's ...
from Puerto Rico
13. Armando Riesco
Actor | The Chi
Armando Riesco is a versatile and highly regarded NYC based actor. He has appeared in over a dozen feature films, and numerous regular, recurring, and guest starring spots on television. He has voiced and done motion capture for video games, and his voice can be heard in national and international ...
from Puerto Rico
14. Ramón Franco
Actor | Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
Ramon Franco is considered by many in the industry one of the finest character actors of his generation.In 2014 he made Grantland's list of "The 10 Most Underappreciated Actors on TV This Year" for his role as Fausto Galvan in the Peabody award-winning show "The Bridge". He's best known to movie ...
from Puerto Rico
15. Eddie Matos
Actor | General Hospital
Eddie Matos was born on July 18, 1978 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is an actor, known for General Hospital (1963), Awake (2012) and All My Children (1970).
from Puerto Rico
16. Wilmer Calderon
Actor | Fast & Furious
Wilmer Calderon was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and moved to Brandon, Florida, near Tampa at the age of two. He learned to speak Spanish at home from his parents and English from watching Sesame Street (1969). At the age of five, he started playing baseball, a year-round sport in Florida, and it...
from Puerto Rico
17. Tobi Rodriguez
Actor | Encounters
Coming from a long line of doctors and lawyers in his family, Tobi (Real name Tobi-Wan) consistently found himself encircled by inspiring personalities. He is the first person in his family to pioneer towards the path of art. He has an older sister, Lourdes Cristina Rodriguez D'Acosta. At Colegio ...
from Puerto Rico
18. Freddie Prinze
Actor | Chico and the Man
Freddie Prinze was born Frederick Karl Pruetzel in New York City, New York, to a Puerto Rican mother, Aurea Elena Ruiz, and a German immigrant father, Edward Karl Pruetzel. Freddie grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City. As a chubby child, he was often bullied, but was quite ...
Puerto Rican mother
19. Freddie Prinze Jr.
Actor | She's All That
Freddie Prinze, Jr. was born on March 8, 1976, in Los Angeles, California, to Kathy Prinze (née Kathy Elaine Barber) and comedian/actor Freddie Prinze. He is of Puerto Rican, German, English, and Irish descent. Freddie lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in his early life. He attended three different...
One quarter Puerto Rican
20. Erik Estrada
Actor | CHiPs
Erik Estrada was born on March 16, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for CHiPs (1977), Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) and National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002). He has been married to Nanette Mirkovich since September 20, 1997. They have one child. He was previously ...
Puerto Rican parents
21. Raúl Dávila
Actor | All My Children
Raúl Dávila was born on September 15, 1931 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was an actor, known for All My Children (1970), The Believers (1987) and American Playhouse (1980). He was married to Isabel Perez. He died on January 2, 2006 in Belleville, New Jersey, USA.
from Puerto Rico
22. Alexis Cruz
Actor | Stargate
Alexis Cruz (SAG-AFTRA) is a veteran actor, and writer-director-producer. He starred in the title role in HBO's Emmy winning "P.O.W.E.R.: The Eddie Matos Story", in "The Old Man and the Sea" opposite Anthony Quinn, in Larry McMurtry's "The Streets of Laredo" with Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek, as ...
Puerto Rican parents
23. Joaquin Phoenix
Actor | Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
Although not of Puerto Rican descent, he was born in Puerto Rico
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