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.
129 acting credits
Acting · 129
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Criminal Minds
2005
CSI: Miami
2002
Chicago P.D.
2014
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
War Machine
2026
Miami Vice
1984
Burn Notice
2007
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
The Equalizer
1985
Ozark
2017
NYPD Blue
1993
The Twilight Zone
1985
Titans
2018
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
The Outer Limits
1995
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Fame
1982
Major Crimes
2012
Dora the Explorer
2000
Family Law
1999
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Mozart in the Jungle
2014
Jericho
2006
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
2014
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
The Hunger
1997
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004
L.A. Doctors
1998
Caprica
2010
George Lopez
2002
Mars
2016
Adam Ruins Everything
2015
Fairly Legal
2011
Never Back Down: No Surrender
2016
Vanished
2006
Freddie
2005
Side Quest
2025
The Brink
2015
Bad Boys
1983
La Bamba
1987
SuperFly
2018
American Family
2002
Freejack
1992
On Wings of Eagles
1986
Dark Horse
2026
Atomic Train
1999
Lethal Seduction
2005
The Principal
1987
Paid in Full
2002
Art of Love
2021
Rapa Nui
1994
Can't Go Home
2023
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
2003
In the Army Now
1994
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
2014
Master Gardener
2023
Spare Parts
2015
Fast Food Nation
2006
Crescent City
2024
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
Cottonmouth
2025
Cherry
2010
Company Town
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Death in Granada
1996
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
1993
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
2021
Scorpion Spring
1996
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
2012
My Family
1995
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
The Line
2009
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
1998
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Saving Westbrook High
2013
Find Your Groove
2020
American Virgin
2000
The Americans
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Seattle Superstorm
2012
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
1996
The Burning Season
1994
Senior Moment
2021
Imprisoned
2019
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Queen of Manhattan
2025
Naked Tango
1990
Dog Watch
1997
Once Upon a Wedding
2005
Live Like That
2027
A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story
2000
The Virgin of Juarez
2006
Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1995
King of the Avenue
2010
American Fusion
2005
Gun Hill Road
2011
Tumor
—
17th Precinct
2011
Halfway There
2017
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2003
The Cure
2007
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
Give Me Shelter
2014
We Have Your Husband
2011
24: Day six Debrief
2007
Sudbury
2004
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens
2006
Casa Vita
2016
Playin' for Love
2015
The Real Thing
1996
Don't Do It
1994
Rainy Day Friends
1985
Kill Kill Faster Faster
2008
Circle of Deceit
1998
Coyote
—
So Much For Love
—
The Journey of a Female Comic
2014
Doomsday Man
2000
Celebrity Habla
2009
The Wall of Mexico
2020
Forty Deuce
1982
The Waiter
1993
From Dusk Till Dawn: Making the First Season
2014
Somos un solo pueblo
1995
Ultraviolet
1992
Bay City Story
1992
Southern Cross
1999
Love and Other Stunts
2018