[1][2] Tony Cortes was born and raised in the neighborhood El Vedado in Havana.

He began working in the entertainment industry at the age of eight, with the filming of the Cuban movie "Los sobrevivientes" (Survivors).

Tony Cortes appeared in soap operas, serials and other TV shows.

[4] The nominations[vague] were a prize to documentary Sobre mis Pasos,[5] a serial -style reality show for the "Maria Elvira Live" Maria Elvira Salazar- aired in the national channel Mega TV (United States)[6][7] and in which Cortes tells how he is finally allowed to enter Cuba after seven years of absence and not being able to even attend the funeral of his father in December 2009.

Cortes then decides to return to embrace his aged mother, visit the grave of his father and reconnect with all those things that are foreign: his people, his neighborhood and his friends.