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ESAI (EE-seye)
American
television and movie actor
Common
clues: Actor Morales; Lou's “La Bamba” co-star; He
played Tony on "NYPD Blue"; Morales of “Bad Boys”
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Morales on Wendy Williams
Esai
Morales is
an actor who has most recently starred as "Lt. Tony
Rodriguez" on the ABC television police drama "NYPD
Blue", and appearing in the PBS drama "American Family"
and the HBO show "Resurrection Blvd." A native New
Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, he was born in Brooklyn on
October 1, 1962, to immigrant parents who divorced when he was a
baby. He is also a political activist—primarily as one of
the founders of the Hispanic Foundation for the Arts—taking
inspiration from his mother, who was an organizer for the
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Esai's
interest in acting was sparked when he saw Al Pacino in the movie
Dog
Day Afternoon at
the age of 12. He began his pursuit of this career by attending
the High School for the Performing Arts in Manhattan. His first
professional performances were in theatre and television in New
York, and his first film—Bad
Boys,
about teenagers in prison—was released in 1983. The role,
which arguably made him a full-fledged star, however, was as a
similarly unsympathetic character, the ex-convict/biker
half-brother of 1950s singer Richie Valens in the 1987 movie La
Bamba.
Some of his other roles have reflected his socio-political
interests, such as The
Burning Season in
1994, My
Family in
1995, The
Disappearance Of Garcia Lorca in
1997, and Southern
Cross in
1998. In the last three films, as well as in a few others such as
Bloodhounds
of Broadway in
1989 and Rapa
Nui in
1994, Morales was given roles which showcased (with increasing
amounts of both screen time and flesh) his prowess as a romantic
leading man. The precedent for his portrayal of a police officer
was set with the film Dogwatch
in 1996.
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