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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.
Known For
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Gabriel
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
as Gabriel
Never Back Down: No Surrender
as Hugo Vega
La Bamba
as Bob Morales
Crescent City
as Luke Carson
SuperFly
as Adalberto Gonzalez
Master Gardener
as Oscar Neruda
Paid in Full
as Lulu
Bad Boys
as Paco Moreno
Freejack
as Ripper