Giancarlo Esposito
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
227
Gender
Male
Birthday
1958-04-26 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Copenhagen, Denmark
Giancarlo Esposito
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.
Known For
Law & Order
Law & Order
Breaking Bad
Bones
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
CSI: Miami
The Boys
The Boys
Better Call Saul
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Conan
The Mandalorian
Third Watch
Once Upon a Time
Westworld
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Miami Vice
Miami Vice
Miami Vice
The Practice
Ghost Whisperer
Gen V
Community
Strong Medicine
Las Vegas
Chicago Hope
DuckTales
Nash Bridges
Nash Bridges
Please Don't Feed the Children
The Equalizer
Leverage
Touched by an Angel
Captain America: Brave New World
Harley Quinn
Godfather of Harlem
Homicide: Life on the Street
Poker Face
Smoke
The Gentlemen
The Division
The Residence
The Usual Suspects
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Drunk History
Sherrybaby
The Jungle Book
Click
New York Undercover
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Trading Places
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Fallen Angels
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Xenophobia
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
Taps
Racing Daylight
Rockabye
The Electric State
Monkeybone
Certainty
Game Changer
Josephine
Abigail
Creepshow
Stargirl
King of New York
Kaleidoscope
Benders
Twilight
Doing Hard Time
The Get Down
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Fresh
Stardust
Bonnie
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The Hunger
Coda
Mano
Kill Me
For NYC
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Revolution
Euphoria
Roanoak
MaXXXine
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Jett
Half & Half
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Parish
Dear White People
The Long Home
Last Holiday
Megalopolis
Allegiance
Phoenix
I Will Avenge You, Iago!
Poker Night
Street Time
Running
Better Call Saul Employee Training
Malcolm X
Where's Marlowe?
Okja
The $treet
Kidnapped
100 Centre Street
Desperately Seeking Susan
New Amsterdam
Karoshi
Ali
Do the Right Thing
They Die by Dawn
Money Monster
NYC 22
Creature
Thirst
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Maximum Overdrive
Bakersfield P.D.
Nothing to Lose
Noise
Soul Food
The Maze
Waiting to Exhale
Son of Batman
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
The Cat in the Hat
Derailed
The Game Awards
Leg Work
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Night on Earth
Blue in the Face
Swift Justice
Batman: Assault on Arkham
Alex Cross
Dreaming American
Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys
The Nagano Tapes
The Show
South Beach
The Cotton Club
Et Salammbo?
Show Me More
Jungle Fever
A Killer Within
Bob Roberts
Line of Duty
5ive Days to Midnight
Rabbit Hole
Talking Bad
Mo' Better Blues
School Daze
The Haunting Of...
Dallas & Robo
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Blind Horizon
Unpregnant
Unacknowledged
The Eisen Hour
Megadoc
Amos & Andrew
The Brother from Another Planet
Rebel
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
I Did Not Forget You
Girls Club
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
By Any Means
The Box
Chupacabra Terror
The Broken and the Bad
Back in the Day
Homicide: The Movie
Brother Nature
Making of Better Call Saul: Finale
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Piñero
Beauty
Gospel Hill
Feel The Noise
Reckless
PoliWood
Timms Valley
Stuck
Hate Crime
...And Out Comes the Wolf
Chelsea on the Rocks
Kla$h
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Finnegan Begin Again
Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine
The Prince
Over/Under
The Keeper
Trouble on the Corner
Mood Indigo
NYPD 2069
Disney 100: Remember That
Miracle on 42nd Street
Sweet Lorraine
Heartbeat
The Gentleman Bandit
The Tomorrow Man
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Big City Blues
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Tutti a squola
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
Blood River Crossing
Rain
On Meditation
Five Desperate Hours
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Ash Tuesday
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Requiem for the Big East
Mylène Farmer: California
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
