Esai Morales
Known for Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Esai Morales, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
War Machine
2026
as Army Officer Torres
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
as Gabriel
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
as Gabriel
Never Back Down: No Surrender
2016
as Hugo Vega
Bad Boys
1983
as Paco Moreno
Freejack
1992
as Ripper
Paid in Full
2002
as Lulu
SuperFly
2018
as Adalberto Gonzalez
Art of Love
2021
La Bamba
1987
as Bob Morales
Naked Tango
1990
as Zico Borenstein
Spare Parts
2015
as Mr. Santillan
My Family
1995
as Chucho
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
2012
as Francisco d'Anconia
The Principal
1987
as Raymi Rojas
Scorpion Spring
1996
as Astor
Saving Westbrook High
2013
as Manny
Lethal Seduction
2005
as Rick Benes / David Lopez
Fast Food Nation
2006
as Tony
The Line
2009
as Pelon