Giancarlo Esposito
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
223
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
Breaking Bad
Gen V
Law & Order
Law & Order
Bones
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Boys
The Boys
Conan
CSI: Miami
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Better Call Saul
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Once Upon a Time
Ghost Whisperer
Westworld
Community
The Practice
Miami Vice
Miami Vice
Miami Vice
Las Vegas
Captain America: Brave New World
Third Watch
Touched by an Angel
The Mandalorian
Chicago Hope
Strong Medicine
DuckTales
The Equalizer
Homicide: Life on the Street
Godfather of Harlem
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Leverage
Nash Bridges
Click
Harley Quinn
Poker Face
Creepshow
New York Undercover
The Division
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
The Gentlemen
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Drunk History
Abigail
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
MaXXXine
Game Changer
The Usual Suspects
The Residence
Fallen Angels
Last Holiday
The Hunger
Half & Half
Trading Places
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The Jungle Book
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Revolution
The Electric State
Malcolm X
Nothing to Lose
Megalopolis
King of New York
The Show
Bakersfield P.D.
100 Centre Street
Son of Batman
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
Dear White People
Jett
Ali
Street Time
Kidnapped
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Taps
Parish
Requiem for the Big East
And Out Comes The Wolf
Brother Nature
Derailed
Trouble on the Corner
Alex Cross
Money Monster
Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys
School Daze
Rain
New Amsterdam
Batman: Assault on Arkham
Stargirl
Desperately Seeking Susan
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Okja
Feel The Noise
Soul Food
Allegiance
Doing Hard Time
Homicide: The Movie
Kaleidoscope
Miracle on 42nd Street
Monkeybone
Sherrybaby
Please Don't Feed the Children
Chupacabra Terror
The $treet
They Die by Dawn
Unpregnant
Josephine
Amos & Andrew
Racing Daylight
Waiting to Exhale
NYC 22
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Karoshi
Jungle Fever
Maximum Overdrive
Bob Roberts
The Cat in the Hat
Smoke
The Keeper
Coda
Show Me More
Better Call Saul Employee Training
Night on Earth
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Twilight
The Get Down
Thirst
For NYC
Xenophobia
Bonnie
The Tomorrow Man
By Any Means
Creature
Stuck
Stardust
Fresh
Hate Crime
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Dreaming American
Leg Work
Sweet Lorraine
Dallas & Robo
Heartbeat
Ash Tuesday
The Box
Line of Duty
Mylène Farmer: California
5ive Days to Midnight
Benders
Over/Under
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Chelsea on the Rocks
Rockabye
Mo' Better Blues
South Beach
PoliWood
The Cotton Club
The Prince
Do the Right Thing
The Long Home
Running
Noise
The Broken and the Bad
Beauty
Swift Justice
Phoenix
Euphoria
Back in the Day
Certainty
Blue in the Face
The Game Awards
Girls Club
Five Desperate Hours
The Eisen Hour
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Rabbit Hole
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Reckless
Poker Night
Rebel
Mood Indigo
The Brother from Another Planet
Unacknowledged
Timms Valley
Where's Marlowe?
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Megadoc
A Killer Within
Mano
Kill Me
Kla$h
Gospel Hill
Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine
The Haunting Of...
Blind Horizon
I Did Not Forget You
Roanoak
Tutti a squola
Big City Blues
The Nagano Tapes
The Maze
I Will Avenge You, Iago!
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Blood River Crossing
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Et Salammbo?
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
NYPD 2069
Piñero
The Gentleman Bandit
Finnegan Begin Again
The Pills: Sempre meglio che lavorare
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
On Meditation
