Actor-Profile

Esai Morales

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.

Porsonal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-10-01

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Social Handle

6.4

Rapa Nui

1994-06-03

4.8

The Line

2009-05-11

6.1

Fast Food Nation

2006-11-17

3.6

Art of Love

2021-10-14

5.5

Freejack

1992-01-17

5.1

In the Army Now

1994-08-12

6.8

Paid in Full

2002-10-25

7.0

Bad Boys

1983-03-25

5.3

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina

2003-08-08

7.4

My Family

1995-05-03

7.3

La Bamba

1987-07-24

5.7

Gun Hill Road

2011-08-05

6.3

Cherry

2010-10-08

4.4

King of the Avenue

2010-09-17

4.2

Kill Kill Faster Faster

2008-04-16

5.6

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1989-11-03

1.0

Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun

1993-01-30

6.0

Master Gardener

2023-05-19

0.0

Minor Incidents

6.4

The Virgin of Juarez

2006-03-13

5.7

We Have Your Husband

2011-11-12

6.7

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

1998-01-23

5.3

Death in Granada

1996-11-09

4.8

Seattle Superstorm

2012-03-31

5.7

Sudbury

2004-01-01

4.7

Dog Watch

1997-08-15

5.3

Atlas Shrugged: Part II

2012-10-12

0.0

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

2007-02-07

9.0

Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14

1995-05-08

2.0

Ultraviolet

1992-02-26

3.8

Once Upon a Wedding

2005-07-22

4.0

Doomsday Man

2000-12-07

2.0

Southern Cross

1999-09-09

6.6

Scorpion Spring

1996-10-10

0.0

Celebrity Habla

2009-09-25

6.2

The Journey of a Female Comic

2014-05-16

7.2

Spare Parts

2015-01-16

0.0

Cottonmouth

2025-06-07

6.2

Jarhead 2: Field of Fire

2014-08-14

2.2

How to Go Out on a Date in Queens

2006-07-28

2.3

Circle of Deceit

1998-01-29

6.0

Crescent City

2024-08-16

7.2

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

2025-05-17

2.0

Give Me Shelter

2014-06-24

4.5

Don't Do It

1994-11-10

3.2

American Virgin

2000-06-02

7.1

Never Back Down: No Surrender

2016-06-07

5.0

Playin' for Love

2015-01-16

6.4

Naked Tango

1990-09-27

5.5

American Fusion

2005-01-01

0.0

Somos un solo pueblo

1995-12-03

6.7

Casa Vita

2016-02-06

6.7

The Real Thing

1996-01-01

6.0

Saving Westbrook High

2013-10-20

0.0

Love and Other Stunts

2018-04-06

4.8

Forty Deuce

1982-10-01

7.1

More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story

2021-02-01

2.8

Lethal Seduction

2005-05-05

4.8

A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story

2000-09-17

2.0

Halfway There

2017-12-12

6.7

SuperFly

2018-06-13

4.3

The Wall of Mexico

2020-10-13

0.0

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

2019-09-13

4.6

Imprisoned

2019-09-12

0.0

Rainy Day Friends

1985-12-20

6.5

The Principal

1987-09-18

7.2

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

1996-11-24

7.5

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023-07-08

10.0

Find Your Groove

2020-03-24

0.0

Queen of Manhattan

2025-09-12

6.1

The Burning Season

1994-09-17

4.0

17th Precinct

2011-12-30

7.0

The Cure

2007-09-01

5.7

Senior Moment

2021-03-26

0.0

War Machine

2026-03-06

0.0

So Much For Love

6.2

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

2002-06-06

0.0

Coyote

0.0

From Dusk Till Dawn: Making the First Season

2014-03-11

0.0

The Waiter

1993-06-01

0.0

Dark Horse

0.0

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

2003-05-19