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 - Dead Reckoning Part One

as Gabriel

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Jimmy Vazquez

Criminal Minds

as Mateo Cruz

Titans

as Slade Wilson / Deathstroke

Chicago P.D.

as Chief Lugo

Ozark

as Camino 'Del' Del Rio

How to Get Away with Murder

as Jorge Castillo

CSI: Miami

24

as Agent Jorge Ramirez

NCIS: Los Angeles

as Louis Ochoa