Giancarlo Esposito

Also Known As: Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito, جانکارلو اسپوزیتو

Biography: Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad from 2009 to 2011 and its prequel series Better Call Saul from 2017 to 2022. He won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series twice for this role. He earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. His other television roles include federal agent Mike Giardello in the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street (1998–1999), Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2017), Tom Neville in the NBC series Revolution (2012–2014), Dr. Edward Ruskins in the Netflix series Dear White People (2017–2021), Stan Edgar in the Amazon series The Boys (2019–present) and The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022), and Moff Gideon in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019–2023), the lattermost of which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also portrayed Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the MGM+ series Godfather of Harlem (2019–present), acted in the HBO drama series Westworld (2016), and starred in the Netflix television series Kaleidoscope (2023), The Gentlemen (2024), and The Residence (2025). He is also known for his collaboration with Spike Lee, acting in several of his films, such as School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), and Malcolm X (1992). His other major films include Taps (1981), King of New York (1990), Bob Roberts (1992), Fresh (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Ali (2001), Monkeybone (2001), Last Holiday (2006), Rabbit Hole (2010), Okja (2017), Megalopolis (2024), MaXXXine (2024), and Captain America: Brave New World (2025). He voiced Akela in the live-action remake of The Jungle Book (2016). Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Esposito, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark

Adult: No

Birthday: April 26, 1958

Age: 67 years old

Gender: Male

Popularity:

7.51%

Known For:

Night on Earth
Megalopolis
Do the Right Thing
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Smoke
The Usual Suspects
The Brother from Another Planet
Malcolm X
Bob Roberts
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Taps
For NYC
A Killer Within
Gospel Hill
Feel The Noise
Blue in the Face
Bonnie
Homicide: The Movie
Nothing to Lose
Monkeybone
Ali
Derailed
Twilight
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Chupacabra Terror
Hate Crime
King of New York
Sherrybaby
Rabbit Hole
Back in the Day
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Phoenix
Fresh
Mo' Better Blues
School Daze
MaXXXine
Last Holiday
Big City Blues
Noise
Kla$h
The Keeper
The Box
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Piñero
Alex Cross
Abigail
The Maze
Trouble on the Corner
Et Salammbo?
Benders
The People
Mano
Dreaming American
I Did Not Forget You
I Will Avenge You, Iago!
Xenophobia
Certainty
Beauty
They Die by Dawn
Rain
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Over/Under
Son of Batman
Thirst
Ash Tuesday
Batman: Assault on Arkham
Five Desperate Hours
Sweet Lorraine
Please Don't Feed the Children
Brother Nature
Poker Night
Stardust
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
The Jungle Book
The Cotton Club
Heartbeat
Maximum Overdrive
The Electric State
Mood Indigo
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Money Monster
Euphoria
Roanoak
Timms Valley
The Gentleman Bandit
The Show
The Pills: Sempre meglio che lavorare
The Long Home
Captain America: Brave New World
The Prince
Okja
Where's Marlowe?
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
On Meditation
Running
Desperately Seeking Susan
Unacknowledged
The Tomorrow Man
Trading Places
Blind Horizon
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Amos & Andrew
Josephine
Requiem for the Big East
Stuck
Finnegan Begin Again
Coda
Tutti a squola
Reckless
Waiting to Exhale
Stargirl
Line of Duty
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
The Nagano Tapes
Unpregnant
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
Chelsea on the Rocks
PAYDAY THE MOVIE
Rockabye
Doing Hard Time
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
PoliWood
Miracle on 42nd Street
Blood River Crossing
NYPD 2069
Out Come the Wolves
Kill Me
Racing Daylight
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
By Any Means
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
California