Edward James Olmos
Gender: Male
Born: 24th February 1947 (currently 65 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica (The Miniseries), Miami Vice, American Family, 500 Nations, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, The Fitzpatricks, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, The Blue Knight, Hill Street Blues, American Family, Greetings from Tucson, CSI: NY, CHiPs, The West Wing, George Lopez, Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks, The Magic School Bus, Delvecchio, Touched by an Angel, Cannon, Hill Street Blues, Hawaii Five-O, Gun, Visions, Dexter, American Playhouse, Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Police Woman, The Batman, Faerie Tale Theatre
Movies: American Me, Blade Runner, My Family, Selena, Stand and Deliver, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, Gossip, Wolfen, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Saving Grace, Zoot Suit, A Million to Juan, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, In the Time of the Butterflies, Triumph of the Spirit, The Road to El Dorado, Caught, The Wall, Hollywood Confidential, Razor, The Green Hornet, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, The Princess and the Barrio Boy, Talent for the Game, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Fukkatsu no hi, Roosters, America, Splinter, Steve Martini's The Judge, Filly Brown, Walkout, 12 Angry Men, The Burning Season, Alambrista!, Black Fist, Evening in Byzantium, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, Disturbing the Peace, The Limbic Region, Aloha, Bobby and Rose, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, A Class Apart, Slave of Dreams
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American (with Mexican citizenship) actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit.
In 1988, Olmos was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the film Stand and Deliver.
He has also been a longtime pioneer for more diversified roles and images of Latinos in the U.S. media besides from his most notable roles/work by him starring, directing and producing films, Made for TV Movies and TV shows such as American Me, The Burning Season, My Family/Mi Familia, 12 Angry Men, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and American Family: Journey of Dreams.
Olmos was born Edward Olmos in Los Angeles, California, where he was raised, the son of Eleanor (née Huizar) and Pedro Olmos, who was a welder and mail carrier. His father was a Mexican immigrant and his mother was Mexican American. He
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