---
name: "James Ortiz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-ortiz"
fi1m_id: "james-ortiz"
imdb_id: "nm4013922"
tmdb_id: 2096164
wikidata_id: "Q138773949"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 February 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:14:20.519396+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# James Ortiz

## Identity

James Ortiz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/james-ortiz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** james-ortiz
- **IMDb ID:** nm4013922
- **TMDB ID:** 2096164
- **Wikidata ID:** Q138773949
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ortiz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138773949, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4013922/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2096164

Actor. Born 16 February 1984 in Albany, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 February 1984, Albany, New York, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ortiz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138773949, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4013922/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2096164

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Project Hail Mary*](https://film.one/film/project-hail-mary.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

James Ortiz is an American puppeteer, actor and director. Born on 16 February 1984 in Albany, New York, he attended Collin College and graduated with a BFA from the State University of New York, Purchase.

He co-created and performed in the play *The Woodsman* (2012–2016), winning an Obie Award for puppet design. His puppet designs for the 2022 Broadway revival of *The Skin of Our Teeth* earned a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppet Design. Ortiz voiced and operated the puppet for the character Rocky in the 2026 film *Project Hail Mary*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Project Hail Mary* (2026), Fi1m 80, as Rocky (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/project-hail-mary.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Project Hail Mary | Watch Rocky Sleep* (2026), as Rocky (voice)
- *Project Hail Mary* (2026), as Rocky (voice) — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/project-hail-mary.md)
- *Saint Francis; Monks in Robes* (2019), as Saint Francis
- *The Woodsman* (2016), as Nick Chopper · Writer

## Gallery

- ![James Ortiz](https://film.one/media/person/6967/gallery-59f91c41273e.jpg) James Ortiz — Zombat2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/James_Ortiz_at_The_Woodsman_Off-Broadway_Premiere_at_New_World_Stages_%282016%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![James Ortiz](https://film.one/media/person/6967/gallery-b969c4f13749.jpg) James Ortiz — Image via TMDB
- ![James Ortiz](https://film.one/media/person/6967/gallery-03924871fe1d.jpg) James Ortiz — Image via TMDB

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