Television
Ortiz starred in WAPA-TV's television show Los Angelitos at the age of seven. Los Angelitos, a children's comedy about a group of children in a school.
He moved to Miami, Florida with his family, which also include a brother and sister who are twins. There, he tried a career as a model. Later on, he would be signed by producer Emilio Estefan, husband of Gloria Estefan. With Estefan, Shalim was able to contact the William Morris Agency and Sony records.
In 2002, Ortiz was featured in one episode of The Lizzie McGuire Show. He was also featured as an egotistical Latin star who gets knocked out by S Club 7 in an episode of their series, Hollywood 7
In 2007, Ortiz starred as Miguel in the romantic, web-only series "Engaged" and also portrayed Alejandro Herrera on Heroes. His character was killed in the penultimate episode of the second season. He guest starred in an episode of Cory in the House as Bahavian singer Nanoosh. He also is featured in the Hallmark Channel movie Expecting a Miracle, which first premiered January 10, 2009.
Shalim has also guest-starred in mainstream series such as Cold Case (TV series) and CSI Miami.
He was also part of Maneater (2009 miniseries) for Lifetime (TV network) as Pablo.
in 2012 Shalim joined the cast of Una Maid en Manhattan for NBC-Telemundo as engineer Frank Varela who fought for the love of Marisa, played by Litzy
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child’s pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)