Esai Morales
Born 1962
Known for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, War Machine.
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.
Movie Credits
Gun Hill Road (2011)
Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14 (1995)
Cottonmouth (2025)
Crescent City (2024)
Playin' for Love (2013)
Saving Westbrook High (2013)
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story (1996)
Rapa Nui (1994)
Imprisoned (2019)
Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)
The Line (2009)
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story (2021)
The Virgin of Juarez (2006)
War Machine (2026)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Face_It! - Das Gesicht im Zeitalter des Digitalismus (2019)
Casa Vita (2016)
In the Army Now (1994)
La Bamba (1987)
Bad Boys (1983)
Celebrity Habla (2009)
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens (2006)
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
SuperFly (2018)
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (2014)
Paid in Full (2002)
Spare Parts (2015)
Freejack (1992)
Lethal Seduction (2005)
Never Back Down: No Surrender (2016)
