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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, 1962-10-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1983	Bad Boys	Paco Moreno	70
2	1987	La Bamba	Bob Morales	72
3	1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Handsome Jack	57
4	1992	Freejack	Ripper	54
5	1992	Ultraviolet	Nicholas Walker	25
6	1993	Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun	Kenny	0
7	1994	Rapa Nui	Make	64
8	1994	In the Army Now	Sgt. Stern	50
9	1995	My Family	Chucho	76
10	1995	Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14	Tony Archer	90
11	1996	Dog Watch	Murrow	58
12	1996	Scorpion Spring	Astor	72
13	1996	Death in Granada	Ricardo	57
14	1997	The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca	Ricardo	0
15	1998	The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit	Dominguez	67
16	1999	Southern Cross	Philip Solano	20
17	2000	Doomsday Man	Mike	55
18	2002	Paid in Full	Lulu	68
19	2003	The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina	Vargas Mouse (voice)	53
20	2004	Sudbury	Gary Hallet	80
21	2005	Once Upon a Wedding	Pineda	38
22	2006	The Virgin of Juarez	Father Herrera	63
23	2006	Fast Food Nation	Tony	61
24	2007	The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'	Self	0
25	2008	Kill Kill Faster Faster	Markie	48
26	2009	The Line	Pelon	48
27	2009	Celebrity Habla	Self	0
28	2010	King of the Avenue	Natas	46
29	2010	Cherry	Wes	63
30	2011	Gun Hill Road	Enrique Rodriguez	59
31	2011	We Have Your Husband	Eduardo Valseca	57
32	2012	Seattle Superstorm	Tom Foster	48
33	2012	Atlas Shrugged: Part II	Francisco d'Anconia	52
34	2014	Journey of a Female Comic		68
35	2015	Spare Parts	Mr. Santillan	72
36	2021	Art of Love		32
37	2023	Master Gardener	Oscar Neruda	62
38		Minor Incidents	Jeremías Amestoy	0
39		Cottonmouth	Abe	0
40	1982	Forty Deuce	Mitchell	53
41	1985	Rainy Day Friends	Neekos Valdez	0
42	1987	The Principal	Raymi Rojas	65
43	1990	Naked Tango	Zico Borenstein	63
44	1994	The Burning Season	Jair	62
45	1994	Don't Do It	Charles	55
46	1995	Somos un solo pueblo	Self	0
47	1996	The Real Thing	Collin	67
48	1996	Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story	Federico Pena	75
49	1998	Circle of Deceit	Jeff Silva	30
50	2000	American Virgin	Jim the Director	37
51	2000	A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story	Juan Miguel Gonzalez	50
52	2005	American Fusion	Jose	55
53	2005	Lethal Seduction	Rick Benes / David Lopez	28
54	2006	How to Go Out on a Date in Queens	Frankie	26
55	2007	The Cure	Jorge	100
56	2011	17th Precinct	Liam Butterfield	40
57	2013	Saving Westbrook High	Manny	60
58	2014	Give Me Shelter	Himself - Animal Advocate	20
59	2014	Jarhead 2: Field of Fire	Cpt. Jones	62
60	2015	Playin' for Love	Principle Jose Marti	50
61	2016	Casa Vita	Rodrigo Vita	69
62	2016	Never Back Down: No Surrender	Hugo Vega	70
63	2017	Halfway There	Ian Sanchez	20
64	2018	Love and Other Stunts		0
65	2018	SuperFly	Adalberto Gonzalez	68
66	2019	Imprisoned	Governor Mandera	55
67	2019	Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage	Self	0
68	2020	Find Your Groove	Self	100
69	2020	The Wall of Mexico	Henry Arista	47
70	2021	More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story	Self	71
71	2021	Senior Moment	Diego Lozana	57
72	2022	The Latin from Manhattan	Papi	90
73	2023	Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One	Gabriel	75
74	2024	Crescent City	Luke Carson	61
75	2025	Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning	Gabriel	0
76		War Machine		0
77		So Much For Love	Geoffrey	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Fame		68
2	1984	Miami Vice		74
3	1984	Miami Vice	Pete Romano	74
4	1985	The Equalizer	Officer Miguel Canterra	71
5	1985	The Twilight Zone		77
6	1986	On Wings of Eagles	Rashid	58
7	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Puck	80
8	1993	NYPD Blue	Tony Rodriguez	70
9	1995	The Outer Limits	Frank Kelton	77
10	1997	The Hunger	Tony	57
11	1999	Atomic Train	Noris MacKenzie	48
12	1999	Family Law	Mr. Santiago	82
13	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jimmy Vazquez	79
14	2000	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Francisco	80
15	2002	American Family	Esteban Gonzalez	0
16	2002	George Lopez	Manny Lopez	76
17	2002	CSI: Miami		77
18	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
19	2003	Celebrities Uncensored	Self	25
20	2004	On Air with Ryan Seacrest	Self	95
21	2005	Criminal Minds	Mateo Cruz	83
22	2005	Freddie	Carlos	49
23	2006	Vanished		55
24	2006	Jericho	Major Edward Beck	74
25	2007	Burn Notice	Ernie Paseo	75
26	2009	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Self	73
27	2010	Caprica	Joseph Adama	69
28		Company Town		0
29	2009	NCIS: Los Angeles	Louis Ochoa	75
30	2011	Fairly Legal	Aaron Davidson	66
31	2012	Major Crimes	Deputy Manuel Diaz	74
32	2014	Chicago P.D.	Chief Lugo	84
33	2014	Mozart in the Jungle	Juan Delgado	75
34	2014	From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series	Amancio Malvado	64
35	2014	How to Get Away with Murder	Jorge Castillo	78
36	2015	The Brink	President Julian Navarro	71
37	2015	Adam Ruins Everything		75
38	2016	Mars	Mike Glenn / Lt. Michael Glenn	70
39	2017	Ozark	Camino 'Del' Del Rio	82
40	2018	Titans	Slade Wilson / Deathstroke	79
41	2023	Can't Go Home	Victor Castelo	0
42		The Americans	Lee Valenzuela	0