---
name: "Jeff Lima"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeff-lima"
fi1m_id: "jeff-lima"
imdb_id: "nm2575873"
tmdb_id: 53055
wikidata_id: "Q19571827"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 September 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T22:57:21.724169+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."
---

# Jeff Lima

## Identity

Jeff Lima

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeff-lima
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeff-lima
- **IMDb ID:** nm2575873
- **TMDB ID:** 53055
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19571827
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lima_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19571827, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2575873/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53055

Actor. Born 17 September 1990 in Spanish Harlem, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 September 1990, Spanish Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2006–2015
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 81 (1), 2010s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lima_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19571827, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2575873/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53055

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Half Nelson*](https://film.one/film/half-nelson.md) (81)

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## Biography

Jeff Lima is an American actor. Born on 17 September 1990 in Spanish Harlem, New York City, he began taking acting classes at the age of 11 and attended a performing arts high school in New York.

His first film role was as Roodly in the 2006 drama *Half Nelson*. He has appeared in films including *Cop Out* (2010), *Mr. Popper's Penguins* (2011) and *Bushwick* (2017), and on television in *Guiding Light*, *Blue Bloods*, *Show Me a Hero* (2015) and as Leon Cruz in the series *Chicago Fire* (2012–2019).

Lima established the Jeff Lima Production Award at New York University Tisch School of the Arts to support student film projects that advance Latinx representation on screen.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Show Me a Hero* (2015), Fi1m 78, as John Santos, Jr. — [page](https://film.one/tv/show-me-a-hero.md)
- *Half Nelson* (2006), Fi1m 81, as Roodly — [page](https://film.one/film/half-nelson.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Chuj Boys of Summer* (2021), Executive Producer
- *FBI* (2018), series, as Mateo Diaz
- *Bushwick* (2017), as Gregory
- *Stealing Cars* (2016), as Carlos Fuentes
- *Show Me a Hero* (2015), series, as John Santos, Jr. — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/show-me-a-hero.md)
- *Affluenza* (2014), as Puerto Rican Thug
- *Jack, Jules, Esther, & Me* (2013), as Carlos
- *Chicago Fire* (2012), series, as Leon Cruz
- *Gun Hill Road* (2011), as Boy in Locker Room
- *Mr. Popper's Penguins* (2011), as Freddy
- *Blue Bloods* (2010), series, as Tomas Lugo
- *Cop Out* (2010), as Youth #2
- *Half Nelson* (2006), as Roodly — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/half-nelson.md)

## Gallery

- ![La Voz Hispana December 12-18 2019](https://film.one/media/person/99321/gallery-515fdacc5f1c.jpg) La Voz Hispana December 12-18 2019 — NewTorts, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Jeff_Lima_La_Voz_Hispana.jpg/1280px-Jeff_Lima_La_Voz_Hispana.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jeff Lima La Voz Hispana 2019](https://film.one/media/person/99321/gallery-2c3dd81e723d.jpg) Jeff Lima La Voz Hispana 2019 — NewTorts, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Jeff_Lima_La_Voz_Hispana_2019.jpg/1280px-Jeff_Lima_La_Voz_Hispana_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joven actor de 29 años crea una beca para apoyar al talento latino LA VOZ HISPANA NY. 12-18 December 2019](https://film.one/media/person/99321/gallery-d4d41313747c.jpg) Joven actor de 29 años crea una beca para apoyar al talento latino LA VOZ HISPANA NY. 12-18 December 2019 — NewTorts, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Lima_for_2019_La_Voz_Hispana.jpg/1280px-Lima_for_2019_La_Voz_Hispana.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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