Name: Esai Morales
Date of Birth: 1 October 1962 Is co-founder, with Sonia Braga and Jimmy Smits, of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts. Spoke only Spanish until age 5. Studied at Manhattan's High School for the Performing Arts. He first became interested in an acting career at age 12 when he saw Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975). Esai's Puerto Rican parents divorced when he was a baby. As a child, Esai was so concerned about his mother's smoking that he hid her cigarettes. He originally auditioned for the role of Ritchie Valens in La Bamba (1987), and Lou Diamond Phillips originally auditioned for the role of Bob. ... Read more Esai Morales movies (actor)User Comments |
