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Joe Miñoso, who plays firefighter Joe Cruz on NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” recalls a time when he says he had to “gentrify” his name in order to gain acceptance from the film and television industry.
“I would have a few conversations with some professors and other colleagues, and people who would come in and do workshops and say: ‘You might want to take that tilde away,’ ” said Miñoso, referring to the symbol that distinguishes the Spanish letter “ñ” from an “n.” “It’s gonna confuse people; they’re not gonna know how to say it.”
Years later, Miñoso has a platform and has the tilde back in his last name.