Edward James Olmos

At 77 years old, Edward James Olmos has this physical status:

Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and activist.

Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), Actor and Director in American Me (1992), and William Adama in Blade Runner (1988), and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) are two of his many roles.

In the FX series Mayans MC, he played the father of two biker gang members. Olmos received the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Olmos was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in Stand and Deliver. He is also known for his appearances in the film Selena, narrator El Pachuco, and in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit and the voice of Chicharrón in Coco. Olmos has been a pioneer for more diverse careers and images of Hispanics in the United States media over his lifetime.

Wolfen, Triumph of the Spirit, Talent for the Game, American Me, My Family/Mi Familia, Dexter, and Dexter were among his notable film, production, and television stars.

Early life

Olmos was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California, the son of Eleanor (née Huizar) and Pedro Olmos, a welder and mail carrier. His father, a Mexican immigrant, immigrated to California in 1945, and his mother, an American of Mexican descent, was deported. He was seven years old when his parents divorced, but he was mainly raised by his grandparents as his parents worked. He aspired to be a professional baseball player growing up and played as a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers at age 13. He left baseball at the age of 15 to join a rock and roll band, which resulted in a rift with his father, who was devastated by the decision.

In 1964, he graduated from Montebello High School. He lost a battle for Student Body President to future California Democratic Party Chair Art Torres while attending Montebello High School. He was the lead singer for a band he named Pacific Ocean in his teens, so named because it was to be "the biggest thing on the West Coast." Pacific Ocean performed at many clubs in and around Los Angeles for many years, including Purgatory, which was their first record, which was released in 1968. He took acting classes at East Los Angeles College at the same time.

Personal life

Olmos lived in West New York, New Jersey, from 1979 to 1987. Kaija Keel, the daughter of actor Howard Keel, was married in 1971. Before divorcing in 1992, they had two children, Bodie and Mico. Daniela, Michael, Brandon, and Tamiko are among Olmos' four adopted children: Daniela, Michael, Brandon, and Tamiko. In 1994, he married actress Lorraine Bracco. After five years of separation, she applied for divorce in January 2002. Olmos had a long-term relationship with actress Lymari Nadal. They married in 2002 and divorced in 2013.

Olmos was named an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 1993 (L.H.D.). Whittier College earned a degree.

He received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from California State University, Fresno, in 1996. He obtained Mexican citizenship in 2007, after a seven-year process. In his honor, Asteroid 5608 Olmos has been named in his honor.

A teen girl accused Olmos of twice touching her in a sexual manner as they watched television and flirted together in 1992. Olmos paid the family a $150,000 cash settlement in response to the allegations, but denied that they were true. Bodie Olmos, not him, was the plaintiff, not him, according to him.

A woman accused Olmos of sexually assaulting a woman in a South Carolina hotel room in 1997.

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Career

Olmos devolved from music to acting in a few small productions until his big break portraying the narrator, "El Pachuco," in the play Zoot Suit, which brought about the tensions between Mexican-Americans and local police in California in the late 1960s and 1970s. (See Zoot Suit Riots.) The play shifted to Broadway, and Olmos received a Tony Award nomination. He appeared in numerous other films including Wolfen, Blade Runner, and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez later in 1981.

Olmos appeared in the post-apocalyptic science fiction film Virus (Fukatsu no Hi), directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a Sakyo Komatsu novel. During the later part of the film, his role required him to play a piano while singing a Spanish ballad. Virus was notable for being the most expensive Japanese film ever made at the time, although not a box office success.

He appeared in his best role up to that time as the taciturn police Lieutenant Martin Castillo in the television series Miami Vice, opposite Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, for which he was given a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 1985. At this time, Olmos appeared in a brief training video for the United States Postal Service titled Was it Worth It?, a video about workplace robbery. When it was announced in 1986, he was interested in playing Captain of the US Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In Stand and Deliver, Olmos was the first American-born Hispanic to be nominated for Best Actor for his role as Jaime Escalante, a real-life math tutor. He produced and starred in American Me, 1992, as well as in My Family/Mi Familia, a multi-generational tale about a Chicano family. He made a brief appearance in Toto's "I Will Remember" (1995), where he can be seen with actor Miguel Ferrer. He appeared in the film Selena in 1997 alongside Jennifer Lopez. In the 2001 film In the Time of the Butterflies, Olmos played Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. In the NBC drama The West Wing, he appeared on NBC as Supreme Court Justice Roberto Mendoza. In the PBS film American Family: Journey of Dreams, he starred from 2002 to 2004 as a newly widowed father of a Hispanic L.A.-family.

He appeared in the Sci-Fi Channel's reimagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and later in the television series that followed from 2003 to 2009. "Take a Break From All Your Worries" (1.9), "Taking a Break from All Your Worries" (3.4), and "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" (4.18). The Plan was also based on a television film directed by Peter Levy. "I'm very grateful for the work that I've been able to do in my personal life," the show's producer told CraveOnline, "I can honestly say that this is the best use of television I've ever been a part of to date."

Julian Nava's Wikipedia film about the 1968 Chicano Blowouts, Walkout, was co-produced, produced, and appeared as the bit actor. He has appeared in "Vato" by Snoop Dogg. George Decides to Sta-Local, Where It Is Familia," the ABC sitcom George Lopez's series finale, he guest-starred as the plant's new multi-millionaire owner. He has been a spokesperson for Farmers Insurance Group, appearing in their Spanish language ads more recently.

Olmos appeared on the television series Dexter's sixth season as a "brilliant, charismatic professor of religious studies."

In the second season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.L.D., Olmos appeared. For five episodes, Robert Gonzales, the leader of a rival faction of S.H.I.E.L.D., appeared.

Olmos performed backing vocals on Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything? The album is a version of the One Lover.

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