Is co-founder, with Sonia Braga and Jimmy Smits of the National Hispanic
Foundation for the Arts.
Spoke only Spanish until age 5.
His first name frequently appears in crossword puzzles, since it is rare to find an English four-letter word that is 75% vowels, and especially rare for such a word to end in a vowel.
Participated in the 2011 National Record-A-Thon by recording children's book titles for RFB&D (Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic)'s audiobook library. (March 2011)
Studied at Manhattan's High School for the Performing Arts.
As a child, Esai was so concerned about his mother's smoking that he
hid her cigarettes.
Esai's Puerto Rican parents divorced when he was a baby.
He is the fourth actor to play the DC Comics character Slade Wilson/Deathstroke in a live-action adaptation after Michael Hogan, Manu Bennett and Joe Manganiello.