In a “Soldier’s Song,” former Marine turned actor/writer J.W. Cortes brings this Off –Broadway play to tell the familiar story of many men who risk their lives overseas fighting for their country.

On reality television, MTA police officer J.W. Cortes works with celebrities, simulating military training to raise money for charity. Next to Grand Central Station Monday, Cortes met a man named ...

For Jersey City actor J. W. Cortes, who currently stars as Detective Alvarez on FOX's Batman-inspired hit "Gotham," art often imitates life. In 2011, when The Jersey Journal first interviewed the ...

JW Cortés is a multifaceted individual whose career spans military service, law enforcement, and acting. Born in 1975 in Brooklyn, New York, to Puerto Rican parents, Cortés enlisted in the U.S. Marine ...

Latinos like Selenis Leyva, from Orange is The New Black, and J.W. Cortes, from Gotham, are making their mark in the arts. Leyva reminisced about the moment she knew she made it as an actress. “[It ...