Giancarlo Esposito

Known for ActingBorn 1958-04-26 (age 68)Copenhagen, Denmark

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Kill Me

Disney 100: Remember That

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Josephine

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Sweet Lorraine

Hollywood Black

Breaking Bad

Benders

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Mood Indigo

Better Call Saul

The Nagano Tapes

The Boys

The Mandalorian

Harley Quinn

Godfather of Harlem

Half & Half

Game Changer

Bones

100 Centre Street

Westworld

The Usual Suspects

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Ghost Whisperer

Community

Xenophobia

The Gentlemen

Homicide: Life on the Street

Rockabye

DuckTales

Better Call Saul Employee Training

Lie to Me

Third Watch

Gen V

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

The Residence

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Poker Face

CSI: Miami

Et Salammbo?

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Leverage

Do the Right Thing

The Practice

Creepshow

Stargirl

Bakersfield P.D.