John Ortiz

John Ortiz is a dynamic American actor. He even co-founded LAByrinth Theatre Company and led it as a director. Ortiz took birth in Bushwick, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... and belongs to an ancient ancestry called Puerto Rican. He married Jennifer, and they together have a son named Clemente. They moved to California in 2010.

Ortiz got his first break in Carlito’s Way where he portrayed the character of Guajiro, who was the cousin of Al Pacino His movie “The Godfather” in 1972 was considered t >> Read More... . He did over 30 movies after that. The list includes movies such as El Cantante; Take the Lead, Before Night Falls, Amistad, Ransom, and Narc. He recently appeared in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. He did not limit himself just to films and acted in television as well. He starred in Hope Against Hope, which was directed by J.J Abram, for the channel HBO. In addition to this, people also got to see him in CBS’s Clubhouse and Blue Blood, which was a cop drama. In 1992, Oritzs formed a union for Latino actors and named it Latino Actors Base to make them open to opportunities and have a close relationship with each other.

Labyrinth proved to bring a variety of roles for John Oritz. He played the character of Clyde in Jack Goes Boating in the direction of Bob Glaudini and then gave an appearance as Che Guevara in School of the Americas in the direction of Jose Riveria. There was a co-production set up between Labyrinth and well-known The Public Theatre, which delivered many good performances together such as the character of Jesus, performed in The Last days of Judas Iscariot. Stephen Adly Guirgis directed the exceptional play.

In 2003, Labyrinth stepped into Broadway and made his debut with play Anna in the Tropics which won Pulitzer Prize with Nilo Cruz’ as the man behind direction. He made appearances in many plays after that including Jose Rivera: The Adoration of the Old Woman, which took place at La Jolla Playhouse, Sueno at MCC Theatre and The Street of the Sun performed at Mark Taper Forum. He made appearances in feature films as well. His recent project was Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem where he played sheriff of Gunnison. He appeared as Rubin Santiago in Pride and Glory, as Frank Nitti in Public Enemies Click to look into! >> Read More... , as Arturo Braga in Fast and Furious, and as Clyde in Jack Goes Boating. He did some plays in the last month of 2012.