Jimmy Smits

Jimmy Smits is an American actor Smits is perhaps best known for his roles as attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s legal drama LA Law as NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s police drama NYPD Blue and as US Congressman Matt Santos on The West Wing He is also notable for his portrayal of Bail Organa in the Star Wars franchise and Miguel Prado in Dexter Beginning in 1986 Smits played Victor Sifuentes in the first five seasons of the NBC television Steven Bochco legal drama LA Law for which he was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series winning in 1990 In 1999 Smits received the HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors HOLA He appeared in films including Switch 1991 My Family 1995 The Jane Austen Book Club 2007 Smits appeared as Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan in Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones 2002 and Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith 2005 in which the character becomes Princess Leias adoptive father He reappeared as Bail Organa in the game Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2008 and the spinoff movie Rogue One 2016 He later reprised the role for ObiWan Kenobi 2022 Smits played the role of Congressman Matt Santos of Houston Texas in the final two seasons of the NBC television drama The West Wing In Dexter season 3 he played the role of Miguel Prado an assistant district attorney who befriends the title character He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for the role He portrayed the character Alex Vega in the CBS TV series Cane which aired from September 25 2007 to December 18 2007 and was subsequently canceled by the network due to the 2007 Screen Writers Guild strike In the fall of 2010 he starred in NBCs shortlived series Outlaw about a US Supreme Court justice who leaves the bench to return to practicing law From 2012 to 2014 he joined the main cast of Sons of Anarchy as Nero Padilla He also portrayed Elijah Strait in the shortlived NBC drama series Bluff City Law He starred in The Get Down a musical drama television series which debuted in 2016 on Netflix In 2021 He played Kevin Rosario in the musical film In the Heights He stars as Chief John Suarez on the CBS police drama East New York