Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

Birthday: 1958-04-26

Place of birth: Copenhagen, Denmark

Also known as: Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito, جانکارلو اسپوزیتو

imdb_id: nm0002064

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.

Played in movies:

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Score: 10.0

The Nagano Tapes

Score: 8.7

The Usual Suspects

Score: 8.2

Rockabye

Score: 8.0

Do the Right Thing

Score: 7.8

Malcolm X

Score: 7.5

Night on Earth

Score: 7.5

Stargirl

Score: 7.4

Okja

Score: 7.3

Batman: Assault on Arkham

Score: 7.3

Trading Places

Score: 7.2

Last Holiday

Score: 7.2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Score: 7.2

Fresh

Score: 7.2

Smoke

Score: 7.2

Stuck

Score: 7.1

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Score: 7.1

Son of Batman

Score: 7.1

Blood River Crossing

Score: 7.0

Requiem for the Big East

Score: 7.0

On Meditation

Score: 7.0

Noise

Score: 7.0

Unpregnant

Score: 7.0

The Jungle Book

Score: 6.9

Homicide: The Movie

Score: 6.8

Ali

Score: 6.8

Taps

Score: 6.8

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Score: 6.7

Abigail

Score: 6.7

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Score: 6.7

Rabbit Hole

Score: 6.7

King of New York

Score: 6.7

The Brother from Another Planet

Score: 6.6

Nothing to Lose

Score: 6.6

Running

Score: 6.6

The Cotton Club

Score: 6.5

The Electric State

Score: 6.5

PoliWood

Score: 6.5

Blue in the Face

Score: 6.5

Bob Roberts

Score: 6.5

Mo' Better Blues

Score: 6.5

Money Monster

Score: 6.4

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Score: 6.4

Reckless

Score: 6.4

Derailed

Score: 6.4

Jungle Fever

Score: 6.4

MaXXXine

Score: 6.3

Finnegan Begin Again

Score: 6.3

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

Score: 6.3

Waiting to Exhale

Score: 6.3

Unacknowledged

Score: 6.2

Kla$h

Score: 6.2

Timms Valley

Score: 6.2

Piñero

Score: 6.2

Sherrybaby

Score: 6.1

Desperately Seeking Susan

Score: 6.1

Twilight

Score: 6.1

Captain America: Brave New World

Score: 6.0

Coda

Score: 6.0

Poker Night

Score: 5.9

Line of Duty

Score: 5.9

Maximum Overdrive

Score: 5.8

Ash Tuesday

Score: 5.8

Hate Crime

Score: 5.8

School Daze

Score: 5.7

Where's Marlowe?

Score: 5.7

The Pills: Sempre meglio che lavorare

Score: 5.7

Blind Horizon

Score: 5.7

S.W.A.T.: Firefight

Score: 5.7

The Show

Score: 5.7

Rain

Score: 5.6

Chelsea on the Rocks

Score: 5.6

Heartbeat

Score: 5.5

Amos & Andrew

Score: 5.4

Phoenix

Score: 5.3

Beauty

Score: 5.2

Megalopolis

Score: 5.2

Five Desperate Hours

Score: 5.2

Alex Cross

Score: 5.1

Brother Nature

Score: 5.1

Chupacabra Terror

Score: 5.1

Monkeybone

Score: 5.1

Doing Hard Time

Score: 5.0

The Maze

Score: 5.0

The Keeper

Score: 5.0

Bonnie

Score: 5.0

A Killer Within

Score: 5.0

The Box

Score: 4.9

Gospel Hill

Score: 4.9

The Gentleman Bandit

Score: 4.8

Back in the Day

Score: 4.7

The Tomorrow Man

Score: 4.6

Please Don't Feed the Children

Score: 4.6

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

Score: 4.6

Thirst

Score: 4.4

Feel The Noise

Score: 4.4

Big City Blues

Score: 4.1

Tutti a squola

Score: 4.1

Stardust

Score: 4.0

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Score: 3.8

Over/Under

Score: 3.8

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

Score: 3.7

Racing Daylight

Score: 3.3

They Die by Dawn

Score: 3.0

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Score: 1.5

Trouble on the Corner

Score: 1.5

I Will Avenge You, Iago!

Score: 1.0

The Daily Bugle: Breaking Bad - NGL Chat, We Spent The Whole Show's Entire Animation Budget On This Episode

Score: 0.0

MegaDoc

Score: 0.0

Mylène Farmer: California

Score: 0.0

The Cat in the Hat

Score: 0.0

Karoshi

Score: 0.0

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

Score: 0.0

By Any Means

Score: 0.0

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

Score: 0.0

Kill Me

Score: 0.0

And Out Comes The Wolf

Score: 0.0

NYPD 2069

Score: 0.0

Miracle on 42nd Street

Score: 0.0

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

Score: 0.0

Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

Score: 0.0

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Score: 0.0

Josephine

Score: 0.0

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Score: 0.0

The Prince

Score: 0.0

The Long Home

Score: 0.0

Roanoak

Score: 0.0

Euphoria

Score: 0.0

Mood Indigo

Score: 0.0

Sweet Lorraine

Score: 0.0

Certainty

Score: 0.0

Xenophobia

Score: 0.0

Dreaming American

Score: 0.0

I Did Not Forget You

Score: 0.0

Mano

Score: 0.0

Et Salammbo?

Score: 0.0

Benders

Score: 0.0

For NYC

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Breaking Bad

Score: 8.9

Better Call Saul

Score: 8.7

The Boys

Score: 8.5

The Boys

Score: 8.5

The Mandalorian

Score: 8.4

Game Changer

Score: 8.4

Harley Quinn

Score: 8.3

Half & Half

Score: 8.3

Bones

Score: 8.2

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Score: 8.1

Ghost Whisperer

Score: 8.1

Godfather of Harlem

Score: 8.1

Homicide: Life on the Street

Score: 8.1

Westworld

Score: 8.0

Bakersfield P.D.

Score: 8.0

Community

Score: 8.0

Third Watch

Score: 7.9

The Gentlemen

Score: 7.9

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Score: 7.9

DuckTales

Score: 7.8

CSI: Miami

Score: 7.7

100 Centre Street

Score: 7.7

Better Call Saul Employee Training

Score: 7.7

The Practice

Score: 7.7

Leverage

Score: 7.6

Poker Face

Score: 7.6

The Residence

Score: 7.5

Girls Club

Score: 7.5

Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Score: 7.5

Creepshow

Score: 7.5

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Score: 7.5

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Once Upon a Time

Score: 7.4

The Get Down

Score: 7.3

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Score: 7.3

New Amsterdam

Score: 7.3

Chicago Hope

Score: 7.2

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

The Haunting Of...

Score: 7.2

New York Undercover

Score: 7.2

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

Score: 7.2

The Equalizer

Score: 7.1

Conan

Score: 7.1

Kidnapped

Score: 7.1

Strong Medicine

Score: 7.1

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

Score: 7.1

Las Vegas

Score: 7.0

Swift Justice

Score: 7.0

Soul Food

Score: 7.0

The Division

Score: 7.0

Jett

Score: 6.9

Rebel

Score: 6.9

Allegiance

Score: 6.9

Kaleidoscope

Score: 6.9

Drunk History

Score: 6.9

Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine

Score: 6.8

The Game Awards

Score: 6.7

Nash Bridges

Score: 6.7

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.5

Parish

Score: 6.5

5ive Days to Midnight

Score: 6.5

Revolution

Score: 6.4

NYC 22

Score: 6.2

Dear White People

Score: 6.1

Click

Score: 6.1

Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys

Score: 6.1

The Broken and the Bad

Score: 6.0

The Hunger

Score: 6.0

Dallas & Robo

Score: 6.0

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Score: 6.0

Fallen Angels

Score: 5.9

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.8

South Beach

Score: 5.7

The $treet

Score: 5.4

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

Leg Work

Score: 5.0

The Eisen Hour

Score: 5.0

Creature

Score: 4.8

By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem

Score: 3.3

Street Time

Score: 2.5

Show Me More

Score: 0.0