Edward James Olmos 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), American Me (1992) (which he also directed), William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988) (for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and the English dub voice of Mito in the 2005 Disney dub of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

From 2018 through 2022, he played the father of two members of an outlaw motorcycle club in the FX series Mayans MC.