Actor Joe Miñoso plays Joe Cruz on the hit NBC drama “Chicago Fire.”

Additional TV and film credits include “Get Shorty,” “Man of Steel,” “Shameless,” “Prison Break,” “The Chicago Code” and “Boss.”

Miñoso, raised in Yonkers, New York, graduated from Adelphi University with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and Northern Illinois University with a master’s degree in fine arts. He worked extensively in the theater prior to his television and film appearances, including Chicago's Teatro Vista, the largest Latino theater company in the Midwest.

He launched Mass Epiphany Studios and the Epiphany Project in 2020. Mass Epiphany Studios is a film and television vocational arts academy and studio system that looks to be a megaphone for America’s marginalized artists of tomorrow. For more information, go to www.massepiphany.com.

Miñoso is active in the community and supports charities and organizations that include Shriners Hospitals for Children, 100 Club of Chicago, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Salvation Army, the Red Cross, the World Wildlife Fund and Fetching Tails Foundation.