Actor
Esai Morales
October 1, 1962 · 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 (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.
Notable work
7.5Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
as Gabriel
8Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Jimmy Vazquez
8.3Criminal Minds (2005)
as Mateo Cruz
7.2Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
as Gabriel
7.9Titans (2018)
as Slade Wilson / Deathstroke
8.2Ozark (2017)
as Camino 'Del' Del Rio
8.4Chicago P.D. (2014)
as Chief Lugo
7.4War Machine (2026)
as Army Officer Torres
7.8How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
as Jorge Castillo
7.7CSI: Miami (2002)
as Stephen Madsen
7.5NCIS: Los Angeles (2009)
as Louis Ochoa
8Tales from the Crypt (1989)
as Puck
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