
Edward James Olmos
Born February 24, 1947 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and activist. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), actor in and director of American Me (1992), William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), and Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982), and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017). In 2018, he played the father of two members of an outlaw motorcycle club in the FX series Mayans MC. For his work in Miami Vice, Olmos won the 1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. For his performance in Stand and Deliver, Olmos was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He is also known for his roles as patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit, and the voice of Chicharrón in Coco. Over the course of his career, Olmos has been a pioneer for more diversified roles and images of Hispanics in the U.S. media. His notable direction, production, and starring roles for films, made-for-TV movies, and TV shows include Wolfen, Triumph of the Spirit, Talent for the Game, American Me, The Burning Season, My Family/Mi Familia, Caught, 12 Angry Men, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, American Family, and Dexter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward James Olmos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Blade Runner 2049

Coco

Blade Runner

Office Romance

The Road to El Dorado

The Green Hornet

2 Guns

A Dog's Way Home

One Fast Move

12 Angry Men

I'm Still Here

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Stand and Deliver

American Me

Selena

Wolfen

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

Virus

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

My Family

The Earth Day Special

The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II

Gossip

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Talent for the Game

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story

In the Time of the Butterflies

Americano

Unity

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

Triumph of the Spirit

The Devil Has a Name

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

A Million to Juan

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

Zoot Suit

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema

Splinter
TV Shows

Hawaii Five-O

Touched by an Angel

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Miami Vice

American Playhouse

Hill Street Blues

Battlestar Galactica

The Batman

Cannon

Starsky & Hutch

Eureka

Police Woman

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Kojak

Mayans M.C.

Portlandia

Police Story

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Faerie Tale Theatre

CHiPs

The Magic School Bus

100 Years of Warner Bros.

George Lopez

M.I.A.

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Battlestar Galactica

The Real History of Science Fiction

Bless This Mess

Gun

American Family

The Fitzpatricks

Greetings from Tucson

Dead Man's Walk

500 Nations

The Blue Knight

E! True Hollywood Story

The Fortunate Pilgrim

Evening in Byzantium

La Californie !

The Judge
More Movies

Windows on the World

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Go for Sisters

Death in Granada

Aloha Bobby and Rose

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

The Princess and the Barrio Boy

Caught

Saving Grace

Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard

The Judge

Beyond the Border: Latino Representation in Hollywood

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

Walkout

America

The Blade Runner Phenomenon

Seguin

The Burning Season

Outlaw Posse

LA 92

Selena Remembered

Walking with Herb

Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire

The Journey of a Female Comic

Mirage

Hollywood Confidential

Filly Brown

Space Songs: Through the Distance

Imprisoned

Chasing Wonders

L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later

Monday Nights at Seven

300 Miles for Stephanie

The Unfinished Journey

The Nightingale

Every Night's a Saturday Night

Slave of Dreams

The Wall

Miami Vice: Freefall

Dead Angle

Maria's Story

The Limbic Region

Manu: Peru's Hidden Rain Forest

A Bridge Apart

Exile Nation: The Plastic People

Alambrista!

The Eyes of Martin Castillo

A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story

Lives in Hazard

Roosters

Agave is Life

Zapatista




