Jimmy Ortega
Acting · Born 1957-11-18 · age 68 · El Paso, Texas, USA
He was born and raised in El Paso Texas. Miguel Ortega (father) was a cross country truck driver and Paulina Ortega (mother) a housewife. Began career doing summer stock theater for 2 years - El Paso Del Norte. Moved to Los Angeles in 1978. Shortly after arriving, he started to work as a stuntman on a picture by the name of Hooper (1978). His first acting job was in a guest starring role on a TV show by the name of CHiPs (1977). He has won a Stuntman's Award - Most Spectacular Sequence - "North & South" miniseries. He also won a Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Performance By Cast - Traffic (2000).
Titles
American History X
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Fast & Furious
Westworld
The Italian Job
Mars Attacks!
Bram Stoker's Dracula
L.A. Confidential
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The A-Team
The Mask of Zorro
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Predator 2
Babylon
The Longest Yard
Crank: High Voltage
Just Like Heaven
Tombstone
Traffic
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Savages
Peppermint
Beverly Hills Cop III
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Smokin' Aces
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Arrested Development
Escape from L.A.
Strange Days
Sabotage
Spawn
Amistad
Spanglish
Vampires
Hidalgo
The Rum Diary
Ghosts of Mars
Lakeview Terrace
K-9
A Man Apart
Last Man Standing
Columbo
Lethal Weapon
The Double
The Rookie
Marked for Death
The Replacement Killers
Man of the House
Knox Goes Away
Internal Affairs
Magnum, P.I.
American Me
Walker
The Seventh Sign
Serving Sara
The Brady Bunch Movie
Beauty and the Beast
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
Running Scared
All the Pretty Horses