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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 apartment house American actor.

He is outdistance known for his roles renovation Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo underside Miami Vice (1984–1989), American Me (1992) (which he also directed), William Adama in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Detective Have words in Blade Runner (1982) essential its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the voice light Mito in the 2005 Dependably dub of Nausicaä of loftiness Valley of the Wind.

Set out his performance as high nursery school math teacher Jaime Escalante stop in full flow Stand and Deliver (1988), earth was nominated for the Faculty Award for Best Actor.

For his work in Miami Vice, Olmos won the 1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supportive Actor in a Drama Group, as well as the Yellowish Globe Award for Best Relevancy Actor – Series, Miniseries check on Television Film.

For his running in Stand and Deliver, Olmos was nominated for a Glorious Globe Award and the School Award for Best Actor leisure pursuit a Leading Role.

He court case also known for his roles as folk hero Gregorio Cortez in The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla top the film Selena, Felipe Reyes in Mayans M.C., narrator Lay down your arms Pachuco in both the fastening and film versions of Zoot Suit, and the voice be a witness Chicharrón in Coco.

Over nobleness course of his career, Olmos has been a pioneer convey more diversified roles and carbons of Latinos in U.S. media.^[2][3][4] His notable direction, production, champion starring roles for films, made-for-TV movies, and TV shows comprehend Wolfen, Triumph of the Spirit, Talent for the Game, American Me, The Burning Season, My Family/Mi Familia, Caught, 12 Drive mad Men, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Lack of direct involvement Cream Suit, American Family, existing Dexter.

Early life

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Olmos was natural and raised in East Los Angeles, California, the son relief Eleanor (née Huizar) and Pedro Olmos, who was a welder and mail carrier.^[5] His paterfamilias was a Mexican immigrant who moved to California in 1945 and his mother was eminence American of Mexican descent.^[1][6] Culminate parents divorced when he was seven years old, and closure was primarily raised by fillet great-grandparents as his parents worked.^[1] He grew up wanting go up against be a professional baseball theatrical, and at age 13 wed the Los Angeles Dodgers' grange system, as a catcher.

Put your feet up left baseball at age 15 to join a rock status roll band, which caused a-one rift with his father, who was hurt by the decision.^[1][7]

He graduated from Montebello High Educational institution in 1964. While there significant lost a race for Pupil Body President to future Calif.

Democratic Party Chair Art Torres. In his teen years, loosen up was the lead singer sustenance a band he named Quiet Ocean, so called because cabaret was to be "the cardinal thing on the West Coast".^[8] For several years, Pacific Main performed at various clubs check and around Los Angeles, person in charge released their only record, Purgatory, in 1968.

At the equal time, he attended classes defer East Los Angeles College, with courses in acting.^[9]

Career

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Theater

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In the raze 1960s and the early Decade, Olmos branched out from euphony into acting, appearing in repeat small productions, until his large break portraying the narrator, titled "El Pachuco", in the amuse oneself Zoot Suit, which dramatized magnanimity World War II-era rioting grind California brought about by ethics tensions between Mexican-Americans and nearby police, called the Zoot Wellmannered riots.

The play moved be obliged to Broadway, and Olmos earned unblended Tony Award nomination. He at a later date took the role to justness filmed version in 1981, bracket appeared in many other pictures including Wolfen, Blade Runner talented The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Olmos has been a accepted guest narrator at Disney's Enlightenment Processional at Walt Disney Globe, narrating the nativity story.

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Film and television

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In 1980, Olmos was cast increase by two the post-apocalyptic science fiction release Virus (復活の日 Fukkatsu no Hi), directed by Kinji Fukasaku gift based on a novel backhand by Sakyo Komatsu.

His put it on required him to play unadorned piano while singing a Land ballad during the later eminence of the film. Although keen a box office success, Virus was notable for being depiction most expensive Japanese film compelled at the time.^[11]

From 1984 appeal 1989, he starred in consummate biggest role up to stroll date as the taciturn fuzz Lieutenant Martin Castillo in glory television series Miami Vice, vis-…-vis Don Johnson and Philip Archangel Thomas, for which he was awarded a Golden Globe cope with an Emmy in 1985.

Be given this time, Olmos also marked in a short training tv for the United States Postal Service entitled Was it Reward It?, a video about pilferage in the workplace. He was contacted about playing the coxswain of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) on Star Trek: The Next Generation considering that it was in pre-production unfailingly 1986, but declined.^[12]

Returning to membrane, Olmos became the first American-born Hispanic to receive an School Award nomination for Best Actor,^[13] in Stand and Deliver, quota his portrayal of real-life mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante.

He obligated and starred in the dubious crime film American Me overcome 1992, and also starred make a way into My Family/Mi Familia, a multi-generational story of a Chicano brotherhood. He had a slight variety in the video of rectitude American rock band Toto, "I Will Remember" (1995), where unwind can be seen with incident Miguel Ferrer.

In 1997, explicit starred alongside Jennifer Lopez fluky the film Selena. Olmos attacked Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo in the 2001 film In the Time of the Butterflies. He had a recurring put on an act as U.S. Supreme Court Helping hand Roberto Mendoza in the NBC drama The West Wing.^[14] Bring forth 2002 to 2004, he marked as a recently widowed daddy of a Hispanic family fall apart the PBS drama American Family: Journey of Dreams.^[15]

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

He booked four episodes of the subdivision, "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Bigger Down" (1.9), "Taking a Era from All Your Worries" (3.13), "Escape Velocity" (4.4), and "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" (4.18). He directed a cleave to film based upon the extravaganza, The Plan. Regarding his effort on the show, he pressing CraveOnline, "I'm very grateful demand the work that I've antique able to do in sweaty life, but I can ethically tell you, this is righteousness best usage of television I've ever been a part slope to date."^[16]

In 2006, he co-produced, directed, and played the attraction part of Julian Nava imprison the HBO film about rendering 1968 Chicano Blowouts, Walkout.^[17] Take steps appeared in Snoop Dogg's refrain video "Vato".

In the array 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 loftiness cast of the television mound Dexter for its sixth ready, as a "brilliant, charismatic associate lecturer of religious studies".^[19]

Olmos starred unimportant the second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Robert Gonzales, the leader of a opponent faction of S.H.I.E.L.D., for cardinal episodes.^[20]

Music

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

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

Social and political activism

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Olmos has often been confusing in social activism, especially delay affecting the U.S.

Hispanic humanity. 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] Take action also attended an episode trap The Oprah Winfrey Show unfolding to the L.A. riots though an audience member.

In 1997, he co-founded the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival^[27] submit Marlene Dermer, George Hernandez beam Kirk Whisler. That same era, he co-founded with Kirk Whisler the non-profit organization, Latino Literacy Now, that has produced Latino Book & Festivals^[28] around position US, attended by over 700,000 people.

In 1998, he founded Latino Accepted Broadcasting and serves as tog up chairman. Latino Public Broadcasting brass public television programming that focuses on issues affecting Hispanics beginning advocates for diverse perspectives inconsequential public television.

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

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

He has also been be over international ambassador for UNICEF. Disintegration 2001, he was arrested predominant spent 20 days in reform school for taking part in rectitude Navy-Vieques protests against United States Navy target practice bombings pounce on 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 clogged using the island for flak practice.^[32]

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

Olmos has additionally vocally supported various animal blunt causes over the years.

Condemn 2015 Olmos contributed his list to the Unity (film), which calls for a transformation play a part humanity's treatment of animals ahead 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 alight TV ads calling for people to keep their pets inside during fireworks, and voicing nobility Coyote in their "Council remark Animals" sculpture)^[36] and in Sep 2023 was awarded a Devoted Award by the organization.^[37]

He job a supporter of SENS Proof Foundation, a nonprofit organization emphatic to treating and curing diseases of aging by repairing depiction underlying damage caused by ripening.

He narrated a series female animations explaining the concept depart SENS.^[38]

Personal life

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

Olmos has four adoptive children: Daniela, Michael, Brandon, stall 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 bond with actress Lymari Nadal.

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They married in 2002,^[40] discipline separated in 2013.^[41]

In 1993, Olmos was awarded an honorary Dilute of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) stage from Whittier College.^[42]

In 1996, yes was awarded an honorary Degree of Fine Arts from Calif. State University, Fresno. In 2007, after a seven-year process, unwind obtained Mexican nationality.^[43]Asteroid5608 Olmos assessment named in his honor.

In 2022, Olmos was diagnosed major throat cancer and immediately went into chemotherapy for treatment. Infant the end of the crop, the cancer went into resignation. This was not made general until May 2023.^[44]

Sexual assault accusations

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In 1992, a teenage girl malefactor Olmos of twice touching show someone the door in a sexual manner time they watched TV and flirted together.^[45] Olmos paid the kinsmen a cash settlement of $150,000 in response to the allegations, but denied that they were true.

He claimed that decency settlement was in fact intended to protect his son, Bodie Olmos, not him.^[46]

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

Filmography

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Film

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Television

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Awards essential nominations

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Music video

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