Esai Morales
Biography
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in Bad Boys with Sean Penn and La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series American Family, the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. (2000–2002), portraying Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue (2001–2003), Joseph Adama in the science fiction series Caprica (2009–2010), Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series Ozark (2017), and the DC Comics supervillain Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in the superhero series Titans (2019).
Morales appeared as Gabriel, the main antagonist in the 2023 spy action film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opposite Tom Cruise, a role reprised in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in 2025.
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Acting (72 movies)
Rapa Nui
1994
The Line
2009
Fast Food Nation
2006
Art of Love
2021
Freejack
1992
In the Army Now
1994
Paid in Full
2002
Bad Boys
1983
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
2003
My Family
1995
La Bamba
1987
Gun Hill Road
2011
Cherry
2010
King of the Avenue
2010
Kill Kill Faster Faster
2008
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Master Gardener
2023
The Virgin of Juarez
2006
We Have Your Husband
2011
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
1998
Death in Granada
1996
Seattle Superstorm
2012
Dog Watch
1997
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
2012
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1995
Ultraviolet
1992
Once Upon a Wedding
2005
Doomsday Man
2000
Southern Cross
1999
Scorpion Spring
1996
Celebrity Habla
2009
The Journey of a Female Comic
2014
Spare Parts
2015
Cottonmouth
2025
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
2014
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens
2006
Circle of Deceit
1998
Crescent City
2024
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Don't Do It
1994
American Virgin
2000
Never Back Down: No Surrender
2016
Playin' for Love
2015
Naked Tango
1990
American Fusion
2005
Somos un solo pueblo
1995
Casa Vita
2016
The Real Thing
1996
Saving Westbrook High
2013
Love and Other Stunts
2018
Forty Deuce
1982
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
2021
Lethal Seduction
2005
A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story
2000
Halfway There
2017
SuperFly
2018
The Wall of Mexico
2020
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
Imprisoned
2019
Rainy Day Friends
1985
The Principal
1987
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
1996
Find Your Groove
2020
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
Queen of Manhattan
2025
The Burning Season
1994
17th Precinct
2011
The Cure
2007
Senior Moment
2021
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
From Dusk Till Dawn: Making the First Season
2014
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