Esai Morales
Acting · Born 1962-10-01 · age 63 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Titles
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Criminal Minds
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Titans
Ozark
Chicago P.D.
War Machine
How to Get Away with Murder
CSI: Miami
NCIS: Los Angeles
Tales from the Crypt
Curb Your Enthusiasm
La Bamba
Burn Notice
Jericho
Miami Vice
Never Back Down: No Surrender
SuperFly
Caprica
Fast Food Nation
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
Mars
Freejack
Dora the Explorer
Master Gardener
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
The Principal
Bad Boys
Mozart in the Jungle
The Twilight Zone
Paid in Full
The Outer Limits
In the Army Now
Spare Parts
Major Crimes
NYPD Blue
The Brink
Rapa Nui
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
George Lopez
Adam Ruins Everything
Cherry
Crescent City
My Family
The Line
The Equalizer
Fame
Fairly Legal
Atomic Train
Seattle Superstorm
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
The Hunger
Side Quest
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Casa Vita
The Burning Season
Gun Hill Road
Senior Moment
Death in Granada