Giancarlo Esposito
ActingAlso Known As
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito, جانکارلو اسپوزیتو
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Esposito, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
(138 total)
The Usual Suspects
as Jack Baer
The Jungle Book
as Akela (voice)
Okja
as Frank Dawson
Trading Places
as Cellmate #2
Money Monster
as Captain Powell
Captain America: Brave New World
as Sidewinder
Abigail
as Lambert
Do the Right Thing
as Buggin Out
Malcolm X
as Thomas Hayer
Ali
as Cassius Clay, Sr.
The Electric State
as Colonel Bradbury / The Marshall
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
as Baxter Stockman (voice)
MaXXXine
as Teddy Knight, Esq.
Batman: Assault on Arkham
as Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)
Son of Batman
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Derailed
as Detective Church
Night on Earth
as YoYo
Megalopolis
as Mayor Cicero
TV Shows
(89 total)
Breaking Bad
as Gus Fring
The Boys
as Meerkat Stan Edgar (voice)
The Boys
as Stanford 'Stan' Edgar
The Mandalorian
as Moff Gideon
Better Call Saul
as Gus Fring
Westworld
as El Lazo
Bones
as Richard Benoit
Once Upon a Time
as Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror
Community
as Gilbert Lawson
Ghost Whisperer
as Ely Fisher
CSI: Miami
as Chief Braga
Gen V
as Stan Edgar
Harley Quinn
as Lex Luthor (voice)
The Gentlemen
as Stanley Johnston (Uncle Stan)
Godfather of Harlem
as Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Rodney Fallon
Law & Order
as Attorney Baylor
Revolution
as Tom Neville
Miami Vice
as Adonis Jackson
Miami Vice
as Luther