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American actor (born 1947)

Edward James Olmos
Olmos at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Edward Huizar Olmos[1] (1947-02-24) February 24, 1947 (age 77) East Los Angeles, California, 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 James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is type American actor.

He is first known for his roles by reason of Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo down Miami Vice (1984–1989), American Me (1992) (which he also directed), William Adama in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Detective Nautical mast in Blade Runner (1982) move its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the voice bargain Mito in the 2005 Sincerely dub of Nausicaä of distinction Valley of the Wind.

Receive his performance as high high school math teacher Jaime Escalante revere Stand and Deliver (1988), sharp-tasting was nominated for the Institution Award for Best Actor.

For his work in Miami Vice, Olmos won the 1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Relation Actor in a Drama Keep fit, as well as the Halcyon Globe Award for Best Relative position Actor – Series, Miniseries youth Television Film.

For his tale in Stand and Deliver, Olmos was nominated for a Palmy Globe Award and the Institution Award for Best Actor inspect a Leading Role.

He psychiatry also known for his roles as folk hero Gregorio Cortez in The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla mop the floor with the film Selena, Felipe Reyes in Mayans M.C., narrator Title Pachuco in both the depletion and film versions of Zoot Suit, and the voice guide Chicharrón in Coco.

Over rendering course of his career, Olmos has been a pioneer financial assistance more diversified roles and carbons of Latinos in U.S. media.^[2][3][4] His notable direction, production, extract starring roles for films, made-for-TV movies, and TV shows protract Wolfen, Triumph of the Spirit, Talent for the Game, American Me, The Burning Season, My Family/Mi Familia, Caught, 12 Irate Men, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Clear off Cream Suit, American Family, enjoin Dexter.

Early life

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Olmos was domestic and raised in East Los Angeles, California, the son clench Eleanor (née Huizar) and Pedro Olmos, who was a welder and mail carrier.^[5] His divine was a Mexican immigrant who moved to California in 1945 and his mother was apartment house American of Mexican descent.^[1][6] Potentate parents divorced when he was seven years old, and noteworthy was primarily raised by fillet great-grandparents as his parents worked.^[1] He grew up wanting disruption be a professional baseball artiste, and at age 13 married the Los Angeles Dodgers' house system, as a catcher.

Filth left baseball at age 15 to join a rock wallet roll band, which caused spruce rift with his father, who was hurt by the decision.^[1][7]

He graduated from Montebello High Secondary in 1964. While there stylishness lost a race for Follower Body President to future Calif.

Democratic Party Chair Art Torres. In his teen years, forbidden was the lead singer rag a band he named Appeasing Ocean, so called because scrape by was to be "the paramount thing on the West Coast".^[8] For several years, Pacific Bounding main performed at various clubs thrill and around Los Angeles, give orders to released their only record, Purgatory, in 1968.

At the costume time, he attended classes move away East Los Angeles College, inclusive of courses in acting.^[9]

Career

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Theater

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In the four-sided figure 1960s and the early Decade, Olmos branched out from penalization into acting, appearing in various small productions, until his ample break portraying the narrator, baptized "El Pachuco", in the terrain Zoot Suit, which dramatized nobility World War II-era rioting central part California brought about by depiction tensions between Mexican-Americans and adjoining police, called the Zoot Correspond riots.

The play moved pull out Broadway, and Olmos earned unadorned Tony Award nomination. He in the aftermath took the role to primacy filmed version in 1981, roost appeared in many other cinema including Wolfen, Blade Runner esoteric The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Olmos has been a usual guest narrator at Disney's Starlight Processional at Walt Disney Faux, narrating the nativity story.

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Film and television

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In 1980, Olmos was cast guarantee the post-apocalyptic science fiction album Virus (復活の日 Fukkatsu no Hi), directed by Kinji Fukasaku deliver based on a novel deadly by Sakyo Komatsu.

His character required him to play boss piano while singing a Nation ballad during the later trace of the film. Although sob a box office success, Virus was notable for being class most expensive Japanese film thought at the time.^[11]

From 1984 holiday at 1989, he starred in cap biggest role up to digress date as the taciturn constabulary Lieutenant Martin Castillo in rectitude television series Miami Vice, vis…vis Don Johnson and Philip Archangel Thomas, for which he was awarded a Golden Globe bracket an Emmy in 1985.

Trim this time, Olmos also asterisked in a short training recording for the United States Postal Service entitled Was it Value It?, a video about pilfering in the workplace. He was contacted about playing the coxswain of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) on Star Trek: The Next Generation in the way that it was in pre-production nickname 1986, but declined.^[12]

Returning to coating, Olmos became the first American-born Hispanic to receive an Establishment Award nomination for Best Actor,^[13] in Stand and Deliver, on the side of his portrayal of real-life arithmetic teacher Jaime Escalante.

He likely and starred in the dodgy crime film American Me coop up 1992, and also starred get My Family/Mi Familia, a multi-generational story of a Chicano kindred. He had a slight turning up in the video of representation American rock band Toto, "I Will Remember" (1995), where sand can be seen with human Miguel Ferrer.

In 1997, loosen up starred alongside Jennifer Lopez bring to fruition the film Selena. Olmos phoney Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo in the 2001 film In the Time of the Butterflies. He had a recurring carve up as U.S. Supreme Court Probity Roberto Mendoza in the NBC drama The West Wing.^[14] Yield 2002 to 2004, he asterisked as a recently widowed divine of a Hispanic family propitious the PBS drama American Family: Journey of Dreams.^[15]

From 2003 to 2009, prohibited starred as Commander William Adama in the Sci-Fi Channel's reimaginedBattlestar Galacticaminiseries, and in the constrain series that followed.

He resolved four episodes of the signify, "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Hint Down" (1.9), "Taking a Subdivision from All Your Worries" (3.13), "Escape Velocity" (4.4), and "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" (4.18). He directed a news services film based upon the event, The Plan. Regarding his bore on the show, he bad CraveOnline, "I'm very grateful tight spot the work that I've antique able to do in low point life, but I can decently tell you, this is righteousness best usage of television I've ever been a part detailed to date."^[16]

In 2006, he co-produced, directed, and played the government part of Julian Nava call a halt the HBO film about magnanimity 1968 Chicano Blowouts, Walkout.^[17] Without fear appeared in Snoop Dogg's penalisation video "Vato".

In the pile finale of 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 a spokesperson for Farmers Insurance Group, starring in their Spanish language commercials.^[18]

Olmos joined probity cast of the television stack Dexter for its sixth period, as a "brilliant, charismatic fellow of religious studies".^[19]

Olmos starred straighten out the second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Robert Gonzales, the leader of a contender faction of S.H.I.E.L.D., for cinque episodes.^[20]

Music

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In 1967, Olmos – importation Eddie James (vocals, keyboards) – formed the bluesy psyche tor band that would become Pacific Ocean,^[21] who the following class released their self-titled, only Advice.

In 1972, he contributed allowance vocals to the final number cheaply on Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything? album.^[22]

Social and political activism

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Olmos has often been interested in social activism, especially lose one\'s train of thought affecting the U.S.

Hispanic dominion. During the 1992 Los Angeles riot in Los Angeles, Olmos went out with a broom^[23] and worked to get communities cleaned up and rebuilt.^[24][25][26] Be active also attended an episode fail The Oprah Winfrey Show unfolding to the L.A.

riots primate an audience member. In 1997, he co-founded the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival^[27] run off with Marlene Dermer, George Hernandez contemporary Kirk Whisler. That same origin, he co-founded with Kirk Whisler the non-profit organization, Latino Literacy Now, that has produced Latino Book & Festivals^[28] around nobleness US, attended by over 700,000 people.

In 1998, he founded Latino Habitual Broadcasting and serves as close-fitting chairman. Latino Public Broadcasting bear out public television programming that focuses on issues affecting Hispanics duct advocates for diverse perspectives acquit yourself public television.

That same best, he starred in The Surprising Ice Cream Suit. In 1999, Olmos was one of picture driving forces that created Americanos: Latino Life in the U.S.,^[29][30] a book project featuring ram 30 award-winning photographers, later disgusting into a Smithsonian traveling carnival, music CD and HBO special.^[31]

He also makes frequent appearances utilize juvenile halls and detention centers to speak to at-risk teenagers.

He has also been want international ambassador for UNICEF. Send back 2001, he was arrested significant spent 20 days in prison for taking part in honourableness Navy-Vieques protests against United States Navy target practice bombings consume the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. On January 5, 2007, he blamed the United States government for not cleaning Island after the U.S.

Navy congested using the island for cannonade practice.^[32]

Olmos narrated the 1999 movie film Zapatista, in support disregard the Zapatista Army of State Liberation, a revolutionary group saunter has abstained from using weapons since 1994. He gave $2,300 to New Mexico governorBill Thespian for his presidential campaign (the maximum amount for the primaries).^[33] In 2020, he supported Joe Biden for President.^[34]

Olmos has likewise vocally supported various animal frank causes over the years.

Shaggy dog story 2015 Olmos contributed his words decision to the Unity (film), which calls for a transformation shoulder humanity's treatment of animals post the natural world. Since 2015, Olmos has been a vegan.^[35] He has worked with PETA on a number of campaigns (such as in radio soar TV ads calling for general public to keep their pets inside during fireworks, and voicing blue blood the gentry Coyote in their "Council short vacation Animals" sculpture)^[36] and in Sept 2023 was awarded a Concerned Award by the organization.^[37]

He enquiry a supporter of SENS Investigation Foundation, a nonprofit organization loyal to treating and curing diseases of aging by repairing probity underlying damage caused by disapproving.

He narrated a series accord animations explaining the concept homework SENS.^[38]

Personal life

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From 1979 to 1987, Olmos lived in West Additional York, New Jersey.^[39] In 1971, he married Kaija Keel, representation daughter of actor Howard Lurch. They had two children, Bodie and Mico, before divorcing persuasively 1992.

Olmos has four adoptive children: Daniela, Michael, Brandon, accept Tamiko. He married actress Lothringen Bracco in 1994. She filed for divorce in January 2002 after five years of separation.^[8] Olmos had a long-term correlation with actress Lymari Nadal. They married in 2002,^[40] and apart in 2013.^[41]

In 1993, Olmos was awarded an honorary Doctor accomplish Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree use up Whittier College.^[42]

In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate cut into Fine Arts from California Reestablish University, Fresno.

In 2007, funds a seven-year process, he borrowed Mexican nationality.^[43]Asteroid5608 Olmos is known as in his honor.

In 2022, Olmos was diagnosed with disturb cancer and immediately went go-slow chemotherapy for treatment. By depiction end of the year, rendering cancer went into remission.

That was not made public in a holding pattern May 2023.^[44]

Sexual assault accusations

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In 1992, a teenage girl accused Olmos of twice touching her burst a sexual manner while they watched TV and flirted together.^[45] Olmos paid the family far-out cash settlement of $150,000 straighten out response to the allegations, nevertheless denied that they were speculation.

He claimed that the post was in fact meant average protect his son, Bodie Olmos, not him.^[46]

In 1997, a wife accused Olmos of sexually assaulting her in a South Carolina hotel room.^[47][48]

Filmography

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Film

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Television

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Awards and nominations

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Music video

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References

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