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Film & TV
Acting · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- Live Like That2027
- War Machine — Army Officer Torres2026
- Dark Horse — Paulo Pontes2026
- Cottonmouth — Abe2025
- Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning — Gabriel2025
- Queen of Manhattan — Papi2025
- Side Quest — Gustavo2025
- Crescent City — Luke Carson2024
- Master Gardener — Oscar Neruda2023
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One — Gabriel2023
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 447
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,664x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,796x
- Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2020 · cited 5,516x
- A Laser Ablation Method for the Synthesis of Crystalline Semiconductor Nanowires
· 1998 · cited 4,037x
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Quotes
- “People are conditioned to seeing Latinos in a certain light including our own people, and that's a problem. Kids need to see something that they can aspire to…Hollywood doesn't always go to Latinos for heroes and it’s sad because we have them…We don't see our people save the day.”
- “Latinos are still considered a bit of 'other', Arabs are still 'others,' Africans as American as they can be are still visually 'other' so I would like to say, 'hey we are part of the same family.' We all contribute to this nation. We overindex in the consumption of entertainment but we underindex in the representation and the quality of representation.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Esai Manuel Morales Jr. , ( 1962-10-01 ) October 1, 1962 (age 63) , Brooklyn , New York , U.S.
- Education
- High School of Performing Arts
- Occupations
- Actor producer director musician
- Years active
- 1982–present
- Spouse
- Elvimar Silva ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2010 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films 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 (2001–2004), 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 which he reprised in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esai Morales” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.