Esai Morales

Biography

Born 10/01/1962

A talented, intense and strikingly handsome actor of Puerto Rican heritage, Esai Morales displayed promise as a teenager in NYC stage productions before gaining attention as Sean Penn's reform school rival in "Bad Boys" (1983). Effective in hot-tempered roles, he shone in "La Bamba" (1987) as the...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 2002, received Alma Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Series
In 2002, received Imagen Awards for Entertainer of the Year

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Highlights

In 2007, Joined the CBS series "Jericho" in a recurring role, as Col. Hoffman, a career military officer and Iraq War veteran
In 2006, Cast in the short-lived Fox drama, "Vanished" as an FBI agent
In 2006, Cast as part of an ensemble in "Fast Food Nation," Richard Linklater's adaptation of Eric Schlosser's non-fiction book

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Family & Companions

Susie Field: dated in late summer 1996
Elizabeth Mazzocchi: Companion (lived together while they were dating; sued Morales in 2007, alleging that the former "NYPD Blue" star assaulted her and gave her herpes)
Esai Morales: father (born c. 1937; divorced from Morales' mother c. 1968)

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