
Giancarlo Esposito
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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).
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Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Law & Order

Touched by an Angel

CSI: Miami

Once Upon a Time

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Strong Medicine

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Miami Vice

The Boys

DuckTales

Las Vegas

Poker Face

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Bones

Fallen Angels

Community

Ghost Whisperer

The Mandalorian

Leverage

Allegiance

The Hunger

Nash Bridges

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

The Equalizer

Drunk History

Leg Work

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

The Practice

Third Watch

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Soul Food

Chicago Hope

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

NYC 22

Street Time

Kidnapped

Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys

The Game Awards

Harley Quinn

Westworld

Better Call Saul

Trading Places

Malcolm X

Maximum Overdrive

The Residence

The Get Down

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

The Cat in the Hat

Batman: Assault on Arkham

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

Godfather of Harlem

The Usual Suspects

MaXXXine

Dear White People

Abigail

The Jungle Book

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

Captain America: Brave New World

Breaking Bad

Twilight

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Okja

Stargirl

Money Monster

The Electric State

Smoke

Ultra City Smiths

Do the Right Thing

Son of Batman

Derailed

S.W.A.T.: Firefight

Revolution

Line of Duty

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Last Holiday

Homicide: Life on the Street

The Gentlemen

Unpregnant

Night on Earth

NYPD 2069

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine

Megalopolis

Bob Roberts

The Broken and the Bad

Kaleidoscope

Euphoria

Parish

Better Call Saul Employee Training
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