
Place of Birth:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of Birth:
4/26/1958
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.

Night on Earth

Megalopolis

Do the Right Thing

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Smoke

The Usual Suspects

The Brother from Another Planet

Malcolm X

Bob Roberts

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

Taps

For NYC

A Killer Within

Gospel Hill

Feel The Noise

Blue in the Face

Bonnie

Homicide: The Movie

Nothing to Lose

Monkeybone

Ali

Derailed

Twilight

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

Chupacabra Terror

Hate Crime

King of New York

Sherrybaby

Rabbit Hole

Back in the Day

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Phoenix

Fresh

Mo' Better Blues

School Daze

MaXXXine

Last Holiday

Big City Blues

Noise

Kla$h

The Keeper

The Box

S.W.A.T.: Firefight

Piñero

Alex Cross

Abigail

The Maze

Trouble on the Corner
Benders
Dreaming American

I Did Not Forget You
I Will Avenge You, Iago!

Mano
Et Salammbo?
Xenophobia

Certainty

Beauty

They Die by Dawn

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Over/Under

Son of Batman

Thirst

Ash Tuesday

Batman: Assault on Arkham

Five Desperate Hours

Sweet Lorraine

Please Don't Feed the Children

Brother Nature

Poker Night

Stardust

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

The Jungle Book

The Cotton Club

Heartbeat

Maximum Overdrive

Mood Indigo

The Electric State

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Money Monster

Euphoria

Roanoak

Timms Valley

The Gentleman Bandit

The Show

The Pills: Sempre meglio che lavorare
The Long Home

Captain America: Brave New World
The Prince

Okja

Where's Marlowe?
Making 'Do the Right Thing'

On Meditation

Running

Desperately Seeking Susan

Unacknowledged

The Tomorrow Man

Trading Places

Blind Horizon

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Amos & Andrew

Josephine

Requiem for the Big East

Stuck

Finnegan Begin Again

Coda

Tutti a squola

Reckless

Waiting to Exhale

Stargirl

Line of Duty

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

The Nagano Tapes

Unpregnant

Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

Chelsea on the Rocks

Rockabye

Doing Hard Time

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

PoliWood

Miracle on 42nd Street

Blood River Crossing
NYPD 2069

...And Out Comes the Wolf

Kill Me

Racing Daylight
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
By Any Means
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Karoshi

The Cat in the Hat

Rain

Mylène Farmer: California

Megadoc

Jungle Fever