Esai Morales

Acting · Born 1962-10-01 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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…

Filmography

• Bad Boys as Paco Moreno
• La Bamba as Bob Morales
• Spare Parts as Mr. Santillan
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Gabriel
• Never Back Down: No Surrender as Hugo Vega
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One as Gabriel
• War Machine as Army Officer Torres
• Rapa Nui as Make
• The Line as Pelon
• Fast Food Nation as Tony

TV

• CSI: Miami as Stephen Madsen
• The Twilight Zone
• Tales from the Crypt as Puck
• The Outer Limits as Frank Kelton
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jimmy Vazquez
• How to Get Away with Murder as Jorge Castillo
• Criminal Minds as Mateo Cruz
• Curb Your Enthusiasm as Francisco
• Titans as Slade Wilson / Deathstroke
• Ozark as Camino 'Del' Del Rio