Joe Cruz isn’t the only one who met his wife because of Firehouse 51. Joe Miñoso, the actor who plays Cruz, met his wife, a make-up artist, on the set of Chicago Fire. They were married in 2016.
Chicago Med’s Dr. Charles (actor Oliver Platt) and Ripley in front of images of Zola and Crockett
When Chicago Fire first began, Joe Cruz was the driver for Ladder Truck 81 under Matt Casey’s leadership. Eventually, after completing additional training, he transferred from the truck to Squad 3, where he is part of the team of heavy rescue experts led by Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney). In Season 11, when Severide went to Atlanta for arson investigation training — because Kinney was taking a hiatus from the show — Cruz became the temporary lieutenant for Squad 3 and impressed everyone with his leadership skills.
In the early seasons of Chicago Fire, Cruz dated Zoya (Larissa Polanski), the bartender cousin of Cruz’s best friend, Brian “Otis” Zvonecek (Yuriy Sardarov), and even offered to marry her so that she could stay in the country. He also briefly dated Sylvie Brett, though they decided they were much better as friends. In Season 7, Episode 2, “Going to War,” Cruz met Chloe Allen in an apartment building fire. After he saved her life, Chloe went to the firehouse with cake pops she made for Joe, and he asked her out on a date. The rest, as they say, was history.
