Giancarlo Esposito
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Giancarlo Esposito

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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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Films Featuring Giancarlo Esposito

Night on Earth

19917.5

Megalopolis

20245.2

Do the Right Thing

19897.8

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

19834.6

Smoke

19957.2

The Usual Suspects

19958.2

The Brother from Another Planet

19846.7

Malcolm X

19927.6

Bob Roberts

19926.6

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

19916.3

Taps

19816.7

For NYC

2020

A Killer Within

20045.0

Gospel Hill

20084.8

Feel The Noise

20074.7

Blue in the Face

19956.5

Bonnie

20225.3

Homicide: The Movie

20006.9

Nothing to Lose

19976.6

Monkeybone

20015.2

Ali

20016.7

Derailed

20056.4

Twilight

19986.1

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

20054.8

Chupacabra Terror

20055.1

Hate Crime

20055.7

King of New York

19906.8

Sherrybaby

20066.1

Rabbit Hole

20106.6

Back in the Day

20055.2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

20237.2

Phoenix

19985.5

Fresh

19947.2

Mo' Better Blues

19906.5

School Daze

19885.7

MaXXXine

20246.3

Last Holiday

20067.3

Big City Blues

19974.5

Noise

20047.2

Kla$h

19956.7

The Keeper

19955.7

The Box

20075.3

S.W.A.T.: Firefight

20115.7

Piñero

20016.1

Alex Cross

20125.1

Abigail

20246.7

The Maze

19977.5

Trouble on the Corner

19973.3

Benders

Benders

19949.0

Et Salammbo?

Et Salammbo?

19708.0

Mano

2007

I Will Avenge You, Iago!

I Will Avenge You, Iago!

20053.3

I Did Not Forget You

2015

Dreaming American

Dreaming American

2011

Xenophobia

Xenophobia

20088.0

Certainty

2011

Beauty

20224.8

They Die by Dawn

20132.7

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

201310.0

Go Tell It on the Mountain

19846.3

Over/Under

20133.8

Son of Batman

20147.1

Thirst

19984.8

Ash Tuesday

20036.2

Batman: Assault on Arkham

20147.3

Five Desperate Hours

19976.0

Sweet Lorraine

198710.0

Please Don't Feed the Children

20256.2

Brother Nature

20165.1

Poker Night

20145.9

Stardust

19986.0

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

20156.7

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

19984.2

The Jungle Book

20166.9

The Cotton Club

19846.5

Heartbeat

19877.0

Maximum Overdrive

19865.8

Mood Indigo

19939.0

The Electric State

20256.5

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

20187.1

Money Monster

20166.4

Euphoria

2022

Roanoak

19867.0

Timms Valley

20136.2

The Gentleman Bandit

19815.7

The Show

20175.7

The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare

20165.7

The Long Home

The Long Home

Captain America: Brave New World

20255.9

The Prince

The Prince

Okja

20177.3

Where's Marlowe?

19985.5

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

19896.9

On Meditation

20167.0

Running

19796.7

Desperately Seeking Susan

19856.1

Unacknowledged

20176.3

The Tomorrow Man

19965.2

Trading Places

19837.2

Blind Horizon

20035.9

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

199310.0

Amos & Andrew

19935.5

Josephine

20008.5

Requiem for the Big East

20147.0

Stuck

20197.0

Finnegan Begin Again

19856.5

Coda

20206.0

Tutti a squola

19794.1

Reckless

19956.6

Waiting to Exhale

19956.2

Stargirl

20207.4

Line of Duty

20195.9

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

19949.0

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

20141.5

The Nagano Tapes

20188.6

Unpregnant

20206.8

Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

2015

Chelsea on the Rocks

20085.7

Rockabye

19868.2

Doing Hard Time

20045.0

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

20216.0

PoliWood

20096.5

Miracle on 42nd Street

2017

Blood River Crossing

20137.0

NYPD 2069

NYPD 2069

20047.0

...And Out Comes the Wolf

...And Out Comes the Wolf

Kill Me

20267.3

Racing Daylight

20073.3

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

2026

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

2026

Karoshi

Karoshi

2027

The Cat in the Hat

2026

Rain

20066.0

Megadoc

20256.5

Jungle Fever

19916.4

Disney 100: Remember That

202310.0

By Any Means

2026

7 Dogs

20266.1

The Making of 'Ali'

2001

Peace and Quiet

Peace and Quiet

1994