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Esai Morales
1 FOLLOWER • 46 CREDITS • OCT 1, 1962 • 63
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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.
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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.
Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Criminal Minds
NCIS: Los Angeles
24
Miami Vice
How to Get Away with Murder
Tales from the Crypt
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Outer Limits
The Equalizer
L.A. Doctors
Chicago P.D.
Celebrities Uncensored
Mozart in the Jungle
The Twilight Zone
George Lopez
The Hunger
Fame
Jericho
Ozark
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Family Law
CSI: Miami
Major Crimes
Fairly Legal
Burn Notice
American Family
Side Quest
The Town
Never Back Down: No Surrender
Mars
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Titans
On Wings of Eagles
The Burning Season
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
SuperFly
The Brink
Celebrity Habla
Bad Boys
La Bamba
Atomic Train
Can't Go Home
Crescent City
Caprica
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