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Esai Morales

  • Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Birthday: October 1, 1962

Handsome, charismatic and intense, actor Esai Morales' film debut as a brutal youth offender in "Bad Boys" (1983) was so chillingly convincing that he struggled against being confined to similar roles throughout the remainder of his career. After his near battle to the death against Sean Penn in "Bad Boys," Morales landed what would be his biggest cinematic success with the role of Richie Valens' mercurial older brother in the rock-n-roll box office hit "La Bamba" (1987). He stretched himself as an actor wi…more

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Career Milestones

  • 2007

    Joined the CBS series "Jericho" in a recurring role, as Col. Hoffman, a career military officer and Iraq War veteran

  • 2006

    Cast as part of an ensemble in "Fast Food Nation," Richard Linklater's adaptation of Eric Schlosser's non-fiction book

  • 2006

    Cast in the short-lived Fox drama, "Vanished" as an FBI agent

  • 2005

    Cast in the lead role of Cesar Castillo in the Broadway-bound musical staging of "The Mambo Kings"

  • 2002

    Had recurring role on the PBS drama "American Family" as an ex-convict

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Awards

  • 2002

    Alma Award: Outstanding Actor in a Television Series

  • 2002

    Imagen Awards: Entertainer of the Year

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