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Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

Birthday: 1958-04-26 | Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2009–2011) and the prequel series Better Call Saul (2017–present). For this role he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Esposito's other television roles include Federal Agent Mike Giardello in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street (1998–1999), Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror in the ABC supernatural drama series Once Upon a Time (2011–2017), Tom Neville in the NBC science fiction series Revolution (2012–2014), Dr. Edward Ruskins in the Netflix comedy-drama series Dear White People (2017–present), Stan Edgar in the Amazon Prime Video superhero drama series The Boys (2019–present), and Moff Gideon in the Disney+ space western drama series The Mandalorian (2019–present), the lattermost of which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also portrayed American Baptist pastor and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the TV series Godfather of Harlem (2019–present). Esposito also portrays Antón Castillo, the main antagonist of the video game Far Cry 6, released in 2021. He is also known for his appearances in several Spike Lee films, such as School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), and Malcolm X (1992). Esposito's other major films include Taps (1981), King of New York (1990), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), Fresh (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Ali (2001), Last Holiday (2006), Gospel Hill (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), The Jungle Book (2016), Money Monster (2016), Okja (2017), Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), and Stargirl (2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Esposito, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Beauty

as    Beauty's Father

2020
Stargirl

as    Archie Brubaker

2020
Unpregnant

as    Bob

2020
Coda

as    Paul

2019
Jett

as    Charlie Baudelaire

2019
Stuck

as    Lloyd

2019
Line of Duty

as    Tom Volk

2018
Maze Runner: The Death Cure

as    Jorge

2017
Rebel

as    Charles

2017
Okja

as    Frank Dawson

2017
The Show

as    Mason Washington

2017
Unacknowledged

as    Narrator

2017
Dear White People

as    Narrator

2016
The Jungle Book

as    Akela (voice)

2016
Money Monster

as    Captain Powell

2015
Better Call Saul

as    Gustavo Fring

2015
2014
Poker Night

as    Bernard

2014
Batman: Assault on Arkham

as    Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)

2014
Requiem for the Big East

as    Narrator

2014
Son of Batman

as    Ra's al Ghul (voice)

2013
Timms Valley

as    Pruit Normings