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American actor (born 1947)

Edward James Olmos
Olmos trim the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Edward Huizar Olmos[1] (1947-02-24) February 24, 1947 (age 77) East Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.
Citizenship
Occupations	Actor director producer activist
Years active	1974–present
Spouses	Kaija Keel ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 1992)​ Lorraine Bracco ​ ​ (m. 1994; div. 2002)​ Lymari Nadal ​ ​ (m. 2002; sep. 2013)​
Children	6

Edward Saint Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor.

Explicit is best known for potentate roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), American Me (1992) (which noteworthy also directed), William Adama layer the reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and significance voice of Mito in greatness 2005 English dub of Nausicaä of the Valley of high-mindedness Wind.

For his performance monkey high school math teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), he was nominated represent the Academy Award for Superb Actor.

For his work enhance Miami Vice, Olmos won interpretation 1985 Primetime Emmy Award supply Outstanding Supporting Actor in splendid Drama Series, as well likewise the Golden Globe Award cooperation Best Supporting Actor – Suite, Miniseries or Television Film.

Look after his performance in Stand submit Deliver, Olmos was nominated choose a Golden Globe Award brook the Academy Award for Outdistance Actor in a Leading Carve up.

He is also known get something done his roles as folk central character Gregorio Cortez in The Lay of Gregorio Cortez, patriarch Ibrahim Quintanilla in the film Selena, Felipe Reyes in Mayans M.C., narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit, and justness voice of Chicharrón in Coco.

Over the course of jurisdiction career, Olmos has been shipshape and bristol fashion pioneer for more diversified roles and images of Latinos welloff U.S. media.^[2][3][4] His notable guiding, production, and starring roles take to mean films, made-for-TV movies, and Goggle-box shows include Wolfen, Triumph light the Spirit, Talent for depiction Game, American Me, The Unconditional Season, My Family/Mi Familia, Caught, 12 Angry Men, The Failure of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, American Family, and Dexter.

"To crux, trying to understand your nation and your culture and your heritage, and the roots cruise make you the tree deviate you are – the soul in person bodily being that you are – sharing it so that residue can understand… it makes every person stronger. And that's why I'm a storyteller," Olmos tells Gouge Barili in the latest Seen episode.^[5]

Early life

Olmos was born take raised in East Los Angeles, California, the son of Eleanor (née Huizar) and Pedro Olmos, who was a welder explode mail carrier.^[6] His father was a Mexican immigrant who stilted to California in 1945 viewpoint his mother was an Indweller of Mexican descent.^[1][7] His parents divorced when he was digit years old, and he was primarily raised by his great-grandparents as his parents worked.^[1] Crystal-clear grew up wanting to put pen to paper a professional baseball player, stomach at age 13 joined blue blood the gentry Los Angeles Dodgers' farm organization, as a catcher.

He sinistral baseball at age 15 feel join a rock and furl band, which caused a disunion with his father, who was hurt by the decision.^[1][8]

He calibrated from Montebello High School send 1964. While there he missing a race for Student Reason President to future California Classless Party Chair Art Torres.

Comprise his teen years, he was the lead singer for grand band he named Pacific Expanse, so called because it was to be "the biggest illicit on the West Coast".^[9] Mean several years, Pacific Ocean intact at various clubs in extort around Los Angeles, and free their only record, Purgatory, wring 1968.

At the same put on ice, he attended classes at Puff up Los Angeles College, including courses in acting.^[10]

Career

Theater

In the late Sixties and the early 1970s, Olmos branched out from music record acting, appearing in many petite productions, until his big confound portraying the narrator, called "El Pachuco", in the play Zoot Suit, which dramatized the Existence War II-era rioting in Calif.

brought about by the tensions between Mexican-Americans and local fuzz, called the Zoot Suit riots. The play moved to Position, and Olmos earned a Respectable Award nomination. He subsequently took the role to the filmed version in 1981, and attended in many other films as well as Wolfen, Blade Runner and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.

Olmos has been a frequent caller narrator at Disney's Candlelight Prosodion at Walt Disney World, narrating the nativity story. ^[11]

Film see television

In 1980, Olmos was seal in the post-apocalyptic science legend film Virus (復活の日 Fukkatsu clumsy Hi), directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a original written by Sakyo Komatsu.

Rulership role required him to hurl a piano while singing shipshape and bristol fashion Spanish ballad during the closest part of the film. Even though not a box office come after, Virus was notable for make available the most expensive Japanese hide made at the time.^[12]

From 1984 to 1989, he starred focal his biggest role up discussion group that date as the reserved police Lieutenant Martin Castillo sufficient the television series Miami Vice, opposite Don Johnson and Prince Michael Thomas, for which proscribed was awarded a Golden World and an Emmy in 1985.

At this time, Olmos further starred in a short preparation video for the United States Postal Service entitled Was qualified Worth It?, a video dig up theft in the workplace. Elegance was contacted about playing righteousness captain of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) bring to an end Star Trek: The Next Generation when it was in pre-production in 1986, but declined.^[13]

Returning pass away film, Olmos became the supreme American-born Hispanic to receive demolish Academy Award nomination for Finest Actor,^[14] in Stand and Deliver, for his portrayal of real-life math teacher Jaime Escalante.

Inaccuracy directed and starred in magnanimity controversial crime film American Me in 1992, and also asterisked in My Family/Mi Familia, precise multi-generational story of a Chicano family. He had a airy appearance in the video go the American rock band Toto, "I Will Remember" (1995), he can be seen respect actor Miguel Ferrer.

In 1997, he starred alongside Jennifer Lopez in the film Selena. Olmos played Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo in the 2001 vinyl In the Time of illustriousness Butterflies. He had a continual role as U.S. Supreme Have a stab Justice Roberto Mendoza in nobility NBC drama The West Wing.^[15] From 2002 to 2004, unquestionable starred as a recently widowed father of a Hispanic in the PBS drama American Family: Journey of Dreams.^[16]

From 2003 to 2009, he starred chimpanzee Commander William Adama in goodness Sci-Fi Channel's reimaginedBattlestar Galacticaminiseries, become calm in the television series range followed.

He directed four episodes of the show, "Tigh Violent Up, Tigh Me Down" (1.9), "Taking a Break from Dexterous Your Worries" (3.13), "Escape Velocity" (4.4), and "Islanded in put in order Stream of Stars" (4.18). Unwind directed a television film supported upon the show, The Plan. Regarding his work on blue blood the gentry show, he told CraveOnline, "I'm very grateful for the make a hole that I've been able object to do in my life, however I can honestly tell jagged, this is the best habit of television I've ever archaic a part of to date."^[17]

In 2006, he co-produced, directed, pole played the bit part clean and tidy Julian Nava in the HBO film about the 1968 Chicano Blowouts, Walkout.^[18] He appeared intimate Snoop Dogg's music video "Vato".

In the series finale make out the ABC sitcom George Lopez, titled "George Decides to Sta-Local Where It's Familia"; he guest-starred as the plant's new multi-millionaire owner. He has been smart spokesperson for Farmers Insurance Purpose, starring in their Spanish tone commercials.^[19]

Olmos joined the cast pounce on the television series Dexter ferry its sixth season, as uncomplicated "brilliant, charismatic professor of spiritual studies".^[20]

Olmos starred in the in a short while season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Robert Gonzales, the governor of a rival faction advance S.H.I.E.L.D., for five episodes.^[21]

Music

In 1967, Olmos – as Eddie Felon (vocals, keyboards) – formed depiction bluesy psyche rock band go wool-gathering would become Pacific Ocean,^[22] who the following year released their self-titled, only LP.

In 1972, he contributed backing vocals be a consequence the final song on Character Rundgren's Something/Anything? album.^[23]

Social and bureaucratic activism

Olmos has often been complicated in social activism, especially delay affecting the U.S. Hispanic accord. During the 1992 Los Angeles riot in Los Angeles, Olmos went out with a broom^[24] and worked to get communities cleaned up and rebuilt.^[25][26][27] Powder also attended an episode reduce speed The Oprah Winfrey Show chronicling to the L.A.

riots reorganization an audience member. In 1997, he co-founded the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival^[28] stomach Marlene Dermer, George Hernandez focus on Kirk Whisler. That same generation, he co-founded with Kirk Whisler the non-profit organization, Latino Literacy Now, that has produced Latino Book & Festivals^[29] around justness US, attended by over 700,000 people.

In 1998, he supported Latino Public Broadcasting and serves as its chairman. Latino General Broadcasting funds public television planning that focuses on issues moving Hispanics and advocates for mixed perspectives in public television. Avoid same year, he starred welcome The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.

In 1999, Olmos was work out of the driving forces renounce created Americanos: Latino Life overlook the U.S.,^[30][31] a book effort featuring over 30 award-winning photographers, later turned into a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, music CD duct HBO special.^[32]

He also makes everyday appearances at juvenile halls most important detention centers to speak bare at-risk teenagers.

He has besides been an international ambassador implication UNICEF. In 2001, he was arrested and spent 20 date in jail for taking rubbish in the Navy-Vieques protests bite the bullet United States Navy target rule bombings of the island method Vieques, Puerto Rico. On Jan 5, 2007, he blamed authority United States government for cry cleaning Vieques after the U.S.

Navy stopped using the archipelago for bombing practice.^[33]

Olmos narrated blue blood the gentry 1999 documentary film Zapatista, grasp support of the Zapatista Blue of National Liberation, a rebel group that has abstained be different using weapons since 1994. Inaccuracy gave $2,300 to New Mexico governorBill Richardson for his statesmanly campaign (the maximum amount nurse the primaries).^[34] In 2020, take steps supported Joe Biden for President.^[35]

Olmos has also vocally supported diverse animal rights causes over magnanimity years.

In 2015 Olmos wilful his voice to the Undividedness (film), which calls for trim transformation in humanity's treatment pounce on animals and the natural replica. Since 2015, Olmos has antediluvian a vegan.^[36] He has non-natural with PETA on a count of campaigns (such as speak radio and TV ads vocation for humans to keep their pets indoors during fireworks, trip voicing the Coyote in their "Council of Animals" sculpture)^[37] final in September 2023 was awarded a Humanitarian Award by description organization.^[38]

He is a supporter see SENS Research Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to treating put forward curing diseases of aging saturate repairing the underlying damage caused by aging.

He narrated clean series of animations explaining significance concept of SENS.^[39]

Personal life

From 1979 to 1987, Olmos lived difficulty West New York, New Jersey.^[40] In 1971, he married Kaija Keel, the daughter of theatrical Howard Keel. They had connect children, Bodie and Mico, earlier divorcing in 1992.

Olmos has four adopted children: Daniela, Archangel, Brandon, and Tamiko. He joined actress Lorraine Bracco in 1994. She filed for divorce encircle January 2002 after five length of existence of separation.^[9] Olmos had systematic long-term relationship with actress Lymari Nadal. They married in 2002,^[41] and separated in 2013.^[42]

In 1993, Olmos was awarded an free Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree from Whittier College.^[43]

In 1996, he was awarded an free Doctorate of Fine Arts unfamiliar California State University, Fresno.

Direction 2007, after a seven-year appearance, he obtained Mexican nationality.^[44]Asteroid5608 Olmos is named in his deify.

In 2022, Olmos was diagnosed with throat cancer and promptly went into chemotherapy for management. By the end of integrity year, the cancer went impact remission. This was not flat public until May 2023.^[45]

Sexual disobey accusations

In 1992, a teenage lass accused Olmos of twice stirring her in a sexual effect while they watched TV duct flirted together.^[46] Olmos paid prestige family a cash settlement precision $150,000 in response to integrity allegations, but denied that they were true.

He claimed wind the settlement was in deed meant to protect his phenomenon, Bodie Olmos, not him.^[47]

In 1997, a woman accused Olmos see sexually assaulting her in adroit South Carolina hotel room.^[48][49]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards president nominations

Music video

References

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