Esai Morales

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Esai Morales

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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.

Films Featuring Esai Morales

Rapa Nui

19946.4

The Line

20094.8

Fast Food Nation

20066.1

Art of Love

20213.6

Freejack

19925.5

In the Army Now

19945.1

Paid in Full

20026.8

Bad Boys

19837.0

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina

20035.3

My Family

19957.4

La Bamba

19877.3

Gun Hill Road

20115.7

Cherry

20106.2

King of the Avenue

20104.5

Kill Kill Faster Faster

20084.2

Bloodhounds of Broadway

19895.7

Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun

19935.0

Master Gardener

20236.0

The Virgin of Juarez

20066.9

We Have Your Husband

20115.7

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

19987.0

Death in Granada

19965.5

Seattle Superstorm

20124.8

Sudbury

20045.7

Dog Watch

19975.1

Atlas Shrugged: Part II

20125.2

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

2007

Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14

19959.5

Ultraviolet

19923.3

Once Upon a Wedding

20054.4

Doomsday Man

20005.5

Southern Cross

19993.2

Scorpion Spring

19966.7

Celebrity Habla

2009

The Journey of a Female Comic

20146.2

Spare Parts

20157.2

Cottonmouth

20256.0

Jarhead 2: Field of Fire

20146.2

How to Go Out on a Date in Queens

20062.6

Circle of Deceit

19984.3

Crescent City

20246.2

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

20257.2

Give Me Shelter

Give Me Shelter

20142.0

Don't Do It

19945.0

American Virgin

20003.4

Never Back Down: No Surrender

20167.1

Playin' for Love

20155.0

Naked Tango

19906.4

American Fusion

20056.0

Somos un solo pueblo

19959.0

Casa Vita

20166.7

The Real Thing

19967.2

Saving Westbrook High

20136.0

Love and Other Stunts

2018

Forty Deuce

19825.1

More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story

20217.1

Lethal Seduction

20053.3

A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story

20005.8

Halfway There

20172.0

SuperFly

20186.7

The Wall of Mexico

20204.3

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

2019

Imprisoned

20194.6

Rainy Day Friends

198510.0

The Principal

19876.4

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

19967.1

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

20237.5

Find Your Groove

202010.0

Queen of Manhattan

20252.3

The Burning Season

19946.3

17th Precinct

20114.0

The Cure

20077.0

Senior Moment

20215.6

War Machine

20267.4

So Much for Love

So Much for Love

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema

20026.5

Coyote

From Dusk Till Dawn: Making the First Season

2014

The Waiter

19934.5

Dark Horse

2026

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

20038.0

Bay City Story

19927.0

Live Like That

2027

Tumor

Live 2 Die