Actor Joe Nieves made his acting debut in 1996 on The Blackberry Inn. A year later, he acquired more guest roles on TV shows starting with Women: Stories of Passion and then later on Time of Your Life, Ryan Caulfield: Year One, The X-Files, Six Feet Under and The Young and the Restless.
From 1999 to 2005, Nieves played various characters on the police drama NYPD Blue. In 2006, he played Fencik on Day Break for 13 episodes. He also appeared as Jim Koernig on 24 and as Carl on several episodes of How I Met Your Mother.
In 2011, Nieves joined the cast of Prime Suspect as Don Korilko.