Giancarlo Esposito
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.
Filmography (52)
By Any Means
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Captain America: Brave New World
The Electric State
Please Don't Feed the Children
Abigail
MaXXXine
Megalopolis
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Stargirl
Coda
Line of Duty
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Okja
The Jungle Book
Money Monster
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Batman: Assault on Arkham
Son of Batman
Poker Night
Alex Cross
Rabbit Hole
Gospel Hill
Last Holiday
Sherrybaby
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Derailed
Blind Horizon
Ali
Monkeybone
Twilight
Nothing to Lose
The Usual Suspects
Smoke
Waiting to Exhale
Fresh
Amos & Andrew
Malcolm X
Bob Roberts
Night on Earth
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Jungle Fever
King of New York
Mo' Better Blues
Do the Right Thing
School Daze
Maximum Overdrive
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Brother from Another Planet
The Cotton Club
Trading Places
