Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos has won viewers' hearts in his numerous television and movie roles. Having been featured on such hit titles as Miami Vice, Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica and Agents of SHIELD, EJO has done and seen it all.

He has been in the industry since the 1980s, getting his acting break portraying the narrator, called “El Pachuco,” in the play Zoot Suit.

In 1981 he made Wolfen with Albert Finney, and in 1982 he accepted the role of Gaff in Blade Runner with Harrison Ford. In 1984, after difficult negotiations in which he gained the right of creative control over his character of Lieutenant Martin Castillo, Eddie joined the cast of the very popular “Miami Vice.”

EJO is well known for “Battlestar Galactica,” which enjoyed four seasons of rave reviews and became one of the most honored science fiction shows of all time winning the Peabody Award and several Emmys. He played the lead character of Admiral Adama, the heart and soul of the show and of the series. He directed several episodes of “Battlestar Galactica” and a BSG movie titled The Plan.

Eddie was also seen in the role of Michael Axford in The Green Hornet and featured in Agents of SHIELD as Robert Gonzales, the leader of “the real SHIELD”.