Esai Morales

Esai Manuel Morales, Jr. is an American actor. He played Bob Morales in the 1987 biopic La Bamba. He also appeared in the PBS drama American Family and in the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue and Joseph Adama in the science fiction television series Caprica.

Of Puerto Rican descent, Morales was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Esai Morales, Sr., a welder, and Iris Margarita , a union activist involved with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Morales began his pursuit of an acting career by attending the School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

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