Esai Morales
Actor

Esai Morales Net Worth

Esai Morales is an award-winning actor, producer, and director who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his acting career on the stage, and his breakthrough role in La Bamba made him a star. In 1997, he co-founded the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts to advance the presence of Latinos in the media, telecommunications, and entertainment industries. His theater performances include Oscar Wilde's Salome with Al Pacino, Joe Papp's production of The Tempest with Raul Julia, and The Mambo Kings. His film credits include Bad Boys, La Bamba, Rapa Nui, Mi Familia, Fast Food Nation, Paid in Full, The Line, Atlas Shrugged: Part II, Jarhead II: Field of Fire, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, and Gun Hill Road, which he starred and executive produced. His television credits include NYPD Blue, Resurrection Blvd, American Family, Miami Vice, Fame, Law and Order: SVU, The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story, Vanished, Burn Notice, Jericho, Caprica, Fairly Legal, Criminal Minds, Major Crimes, and Saving Westbrook High. Currently, he plays the role of President of The United States on The Brink, HBO's new dark comedy.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Producer, Director
Birth Day October 01, 1962
Birth Place  Brooklyn, New York, United States
Age 60 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Scorpio
Occupation Actor, producer, director, musician
Years active 1982–present
Partner(s) Elvimar Silva (2010-present)
Children Mariana Oliveira Morales (born 2010)

💰 Net worth: $1.3 Million (2024)

Esai Morales, a prominent figure in the entertainment industry, has achieved considerable success throughout his career as an actor, producer, and director. With his exceptional talents and dedication, Morales has managed to amass an impressive net worth estimated to be $1.3 million as of 2024. Widely recognized for his versatile performances and impactful contributions to the United States film and television productions, Morales continues to captivate audiences with his remarkable skills. Through his commitment to his craft, Morales has cemented his name as a force to be reckoned with in the industry, leaving an indelible mark on the world of entertainment.

Biography/Timeline

1950

He played Bob Morales, the real-life ex-convict and biker half-brother of 1950s rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens, in La Bamba (1987).

1983

His first professional performances were in theater and television in New York. His first film was Bad Boys (1983), about rival teenagers sentenced to a Juvenile correction facility. Morales appeared in a 1985 episode of the TV series Fame. He co-starred with Burt Lancaster in the 1986 NBC miniseries On Wings of Eagles, playing the Iranian Rashid, the hero of a true story about Ross Perot. Morales also appeared in Miami Vice, The Equalizer, and 24.

1990

In the 1990s, he guest-starred on episodes of The Outer Limits, Tales from the Crypt, and two shorter-lived series, L.A. Doctors and The Hunger. He appeared in a two-part episode of Family Law in 2000. He was part of the main cast of the long-running series NYPD Blue for three and a half seasons, from 2001 to 2004, as the head of the 15th precinct detective squad.

1994

Morales's first name is frequently used in crossword puzzles because its rare construction (it is a four-letter word in English that is seventy-five percent vowels, including the first and last letters) makes it a prize for crossword constructors. One crossword clue website estimated that between 1994 and 2016, "ESAI" had been used as a crossword answer over 100 times in American papers such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

2002

He played a drug dealer named Lulu in the 2002 film Paid in Full. In 2005, he was a voice actor in the video game True Crime: New York City, playing Sgt. Victor Navarro.

2005

In 2005, Morales (along with Mercedes Ruehl) received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA).

2006

Morales was cast in the film American Fusion (2005), and on June 19, 2006, he joined the cast of the Fox series Vanished, as FBI agent Michael Tyner; the series ran for one season. In 2007, Morales appeared in an episode of the USA Network drama series Burn Notice, as a Cuban shopkeeper being shaken down for "protection" money by local Criminals. In early 2008, Morales had a role in the CBS drama Jericho, as Major Edward Beck. He appeared in all seven episodes of the shortened second season That same year, he appeared in Kill Kill Faster Faster, a film noir based on the novel of the same name by Joel Rose.

2007

In a February 28, 2007, all-star benefit reading of The Gift of Peace at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, he portrayed a hopeful member of a struggling immigrant family, performing alongside actors Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, Amy Brenneman, George Coe, Wendie Malick, and James Pickens, Jr.. The play was an open appeal and fundraiser for passage of U.S. House Resolution 808, which sought to establish a Cabinet-level "Department of Peace" in the U.S. government, to be funded by a two percent diversion of the Pentagon's annual budget.

2008

In May 2008, it was announced that Morales would play the role of Joseph Adama in the science fiction television series Caprica – Syfy's prequel to the series Battlestar Galactica. The series, though highly anticipated, only ran for one season in 2010. In 2009, he served as an official festival judge for the Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles.

2010

Morales is a vegetarian. He and girlfriend Elvimar Silva had a daughter, Mariana Oliveira, on September 24, 2010.

2011


In 2011, Morales starred in the drama film Gun Hill Road as Enrique, and in the web drama Los Americans airing on PIC.tv. In March 2015 Robert Rodriguez cast him as Lord Amancio Malvado for the horror drama series From Dusk till Dawn: The Series., and also Morales worked with Yvonne DeLaRosa, Lupe Ontiveros and JC Gonzalez in Los Americans, an Internet program that was launched in May 2011.

2017

In 2017, Morales was cast in the Netflix series Ozark.

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