Esai Morales
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Esai Morales, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Freddie
4.9
Caprica
6.9
Jericho
7.402
Fame
6.8
CSI: Miami
7.71
Miami Vice
7.451
The Twilight Zone
7.762
Tales from the Crypt
7.949
George Lopez
7.6
Burn Notice
7.457
The Equalizer
7.2
Vanished
5.5
Celebrities Uncensored
2.5
Family Law
8.2
The Outer Limits
7.722
Company Town
0
Major Crimes
7.4
The Brink
7.061
Can't Go Home
0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.9
How to Get Away with Murder
7.834
NCIS: Los Angeles
7.53
On Wings of Eagles
5.8
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
6.395
Atomic Train
4.8
Fairly Legal
6.6
Criminal Minds
8.309
Mars
6.997
The Americans
0
The Hunger
5.842
Celebrity Ghost Stories
7.3
American Family
0
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
9.5
Curb Your Enthusiasm
8
Titans
7.9
Real Time with Bill Maher
5.984
Mozart in the Jungle
7.5
NYPD Blue
7
Miami Vice
7.451
Adam Ruins Everything
7.4
Ozark
8.211
Chicago P.D.
8.414
Side Quest
5.4
L.A. Doctors
7
Honest Trailers
6.5
Movies
Rapa Nui
6.412
The Line
4.822
Fast Food Nation
6.073
Art of Love
3.6
Freejack
5.435
In the Army Now
5.1
Paid in Full
6.8
Bad Boys
6.968
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
5.3
My Family
7.481
La Bamba
7.259
Gun Hill Road
5.9
Cherry
6.3
King of the Avenue
4.417
Kill Kill Faster Faster
4.455
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.6
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
1
Master Gardener
6.108
Minor Incidents
0
The Virgin of Juarez
6.3
We Have Your Husband
5.7
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
6.7
Death in Granada
5.4
Seattle Superstorm
4.8
Sudbury
5.667
Dog Watch
5.042
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
5.296
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
0
Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
9
Ultraviolet
2
Once Upon a Wedding
3.8
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
0
Doomsday Man
4
Southern Cross
2
Scorpion Spring
6.625
Celebrity Habla
0
The Journey of a Female Comic
6.2
Spare Parts
7.2
Cottonmouth
0
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
6.209
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens
2.333
Circle of Deceit
3
Crescent City
6.029
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
7.153
Give Me Shelter
2
Don't Do It
5.667
American Virgin
3.25
Never Back Down: No Surrender
7.023
Playin' for Love
5
Naked Tango
6.406
American Fusion
5.5
Somos un solo pueblo
0
Casa Vita
6.667
The Real Thing
6.7
Saving Westbrook High
6
Love and Other Stunts
0
Forty Deuce
5.286
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
7.1
Lethal Seduction
2.8
A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story
5
Halfway There
2
SuperFly
6.727
The Wall of Mexico
4.7
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
0
Imprisoned
5.042
Rainy Day Friends
0
The Principal
6.474
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
7.5
Find Your Groove
10
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
7.531
The Latin from Manhattan
9
The Burning Season
6.2
17th Precinct
4
The Cure
7
Senior Moment
5.7
War Machine
0
So Much For Love
0
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
6.2