
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.
Filmography

Master Gardener

Art of Love

Spare Parts

The Journey of a Female Comic

Atlas Shrugged: Part II

Seattle Superstorm

We Have Your Husband

Gun Hill Road

Cherry

King of the Avenue

Celebrity Habla

The Line

Kill Kill Faster Faster

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

Fast Food Nation

The Virgin of Juarez

Once Upon a Wedding

Sudbury

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina

Paid in Full

Doomsday Man

Southern Cross

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca

Death in Granada

Scorpion Spring

Dog Watch

Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14

My Family

In the Army Now

Rapa Nui

Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun

Ultraviolet

Freejack

Bloodhounds of Broadway

La Bamba

Bad Boys

Minor Incidents

Cottonmouth

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Crescent City

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

The Latin from Manhattan

Senior Moment

More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story

The Wall of Mexico

Find Your Groove

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

Imprisoned

SuperFly

Love and Other Stunts

Halfway There

Never Back Down: No Surrender

Casa Vita

Playin' for Love

Jarhead 2: Field of Fire

Give Me Shelter

Saving Westbrook High

17th Precinct

The Cure

How to Go Out on a Date in Queens

Lethal Seduction

American Fusion

A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story

American Virgin

Circle of Deceit

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

The Real Thing

Somos un solo pueblo

Don't Do It

The Burning Season

Naked Tango

The Principal

Rainy Day Friends

Forty Deuce

War Machine
