Giancarlo Esposito
Acting
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Esposito, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Karoshi
2027
The Cat in the Hat
2026
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
2026
By Any Means
2026
7 Dogs
2026
The Boys - The Final
2026
Kill Me
2026
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026
Megadoc
2025
Please Don't Feed the Children
2025
The Residence
2025
The Electric State
2025
Captain America: Brave New World
2025
Megalopolis
2024
Hollywood Black
2024
MaXXXine
2024
Abigail
2024
Parish
2024
The Gentlemen
2024
Disney 100: Remember That
2023
Gen V
2023
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Poker Face
2023
Kaleidoscope
2023
Euphoria
2022
Bonnie
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Beauty
2022
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
2022
Show Me More
2021
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
2021
Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine
2021
The Eisen Hour
2021
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
2020
Unpregnant
2020
Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys
2020
The Broken and the Bad
2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
For NYC
2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
Stargirl
2020
Coda
2020
Line of Duty
2019
Harley Quinn
2019
The Mandalorian
2019
Godfather of Harlem
2019
Creepshow
2019
Game Changer
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Boys
2019
Jett
2019
Stuck
2019
Dallas & Robo
2018
The Nagano Tapes
2018
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
2018
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
The Show
2017
DuckTales
2017
Okja
2017
Unacknowledged
2017
Dear White People
2017
Better Call Saul Employee Training
2017
Rebel
2017
Westworld
2016
Brother Nature
2016
The Get Down
2016
On Meditation
2016
Money Monster
2016
The Jungle Book
2016
The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
2016
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
2015
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015
Better Call Saul
2015
Allegiance
2015
I Did Not Forget You
2015
Poker Night
2014
The Game Awards
2014
Batman: Assault on Arkham
2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
Son of Batman
2014
Requiem for the Big East
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Timms Valley
2013
They Die by Dawn
2013
Talking Bad
2013
Drunk History
2013
Blood River Crossing
2013
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Over/Under
2013
The Haunting Of...
2012
Alex Cross
2012
Revolution
2012
NYC 22
2012
Once Upon a Time
2011
Certainty
2011
Dreaming American
2011
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
2011
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
2011
Rabbit Hole
2010
Conan
2010
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Community
2009
PoliWood
2009
Lie to Me
2009
Leverage
2008
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
New Amsterdam
2008
Gospel Hill
2008
Breaking Bad
2008
Xenophobia
2008
Mano
2007
Feel The Noise
2007
Racing Daylight
2007
The Box
2007
Kidnapped
2006
Sherrybaby
2006
Rain
2006
Last Holiday
2006
South Beach
2006
Derailed
2005
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
2005
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Bones
2005
Back in the Day
2005
I Will Avenge You, Iago!
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Chupacabra Terror
2005
Hate Crime
2005
Doing Hard Time
2004
A Killer Within
2004
5ive Days to Midnight
2004
NYPD 2069
2004
Noise
2004
Blind Horizon
2003
Las Vegas
2003
Ash Tuesday
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Girls Club
2002
Half & Half
2002
CSI: Miami
2002
Street Time
2002
The Making of 'Ali'
2001
Ali
2001
Piñero
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
Monkeybone
2001
100 Centre Street
2001
The Division
2001
The $treet
2000
Strong Medicine
2000
Soul Food
2000
Click
2000
Homicide: The Movie
2000
Josephine
2000
Third Watch
1999
Thirst
1998
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
Where's Marlowe?
1998
Phoenix
1998
Creature
1998
Twilight
1998
Stardust
1998
Trouble on the Corner
1997
Five Desperate Hours
1997
Big City Blues
1997
The Hunger
1997
Nothing to Lose
1997
The Practice
1997
The Maze
1997
The Tomorrow Man
1996
Nash Bridges
1996
Mylène Farmer: California
1996
Swift Justice
1996
Waiting to Exhale
1995
Reckless
1995
Blue in the Face
1995
The Keeper
1995
The Usual Suspects
1995
Smoke
1995
Kla$h
1995
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
1994
Touched by an Angel
1994
Chicago Hope
1994
New York Undercover
1994
Fresh
1994
Peace and Quiet
1994
Benders
1994
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
Bakersfield P.D.
1993
Fallen Angels
1993
Amos & Andrew
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Mood Indigo
1993
Malcolm X
1992
Bob Roberts
1992
Night on Earth
1991
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
Jungle Fever
1991
Law & Order
1990
Mo' Better Blues
1990
King of New York
1990
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
Do the Right Thing
1989
School Daze
1988
Leg Work
1987
Heartbeat
1987
Sweet Lorraine
1987
Maximum Overdrive
1986
Roanoak
1986
Roanoak
1986
Rockabye
1986
The Equalizer
1985
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
The Cotton Club
1984
Miami Vice
1984
The Brother from Another Planet
1984
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
Trading Places
1983
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983
Taps
1981
The Gentleman Bandit
1981
Running
1979
Tutti a squola
1979
Et Salammbo?
1970
The Long Home
The Prince
...And Out Comes the Wolf