Esai Morales

I've had a soft spot for Esai Morales ever since I first saw him in La Bamba — he played Ritchie Valens's troubled older brother Bob with this raw, complicated energy that honestly outshone just about everyone else on screen. Born in Brooklyn to a Puerto Rican family, he trained at the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. What impresses me most is his longevity: from Bad Boys opposite Sean Penn, to Resurrection Blvd. on Showtime, to American Family on PBS, to showing up decades later on Titans as Deathstroke — the man just keeps working, keeps delivering. He never became a superstar in the tabloid sense, but he built an incredibly solid career on pure craft, and that kind of staying power deserves a lot more credit than he typically gets.

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Name (English)

Esai Morales

Name (Japanese)

イーサイ・モラレス

Reading

いーさい・もられす

Born

October 1, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

High school

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School

• Official sitehttps://www.esaimorales.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/esai_morales/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esai%20Morales
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q974064

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.