Esai Morales | Originals for Paramount+

Esai Morales

1 FOLLOWER • 46 CREDITS • OCT 1, 1962 • 63

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.

Overview

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Criminal Minds

NCIS: Los Angeles

Miami Vice

How to Get Away with Murder

Tales from the Crypt

Real Time with Bill Maher

Celebrities Uncensored

Never Back Down: No Surrender

Mars

From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

Titans

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

On Wings of Eagles

The Burning Season

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

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