
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).
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Acting (122 movies)

Night on Earth
1991

Megalopolis
2024

Do the Right Thing
1989

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983

Smoke
1995

The Usual Suspects
1995

The Brother from Another Planet
1984

Malcolm X
1992

Bob Roberts
1992

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991

Taps
1981

For NYC
2020

A Killer Within
2004

Gospel Hill
2008

Feel The Noise
2007

Blue in the Face
1995

Bonnie
2022

Homicide: The Movie
2000

Nothing to Lose
1997

Monkeybone
2001

Ali
2001

Derailed
2005

Twilight
1998

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
2005

Chupacabra Terror
2005

Hate Crime
2005

King of New York
1990

Sherrybaby
2006

Rabbit Hole
2010

Back in the Day
2005

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023

Phoenix
1998

Fresh
1994

Mo' Better Blues
1990

School Daze
1988

MaXXXine
2024

Last Holiday
2006

Big City Blues
1997

Noise
2004

Kla$h
1995

The Keeper
1995

The Box
2007

S.W.A.T.: Firefight
2011

Piñero
2001

Alex Cross
2012

Abigail
2024

The Maze
1997

Trouble on the Corner
1997

I Did Not Forget You
2015

Mano
2007

Certainty
2011

Beauty
2022

They Die by Dawn
2013

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013

Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984

Over/Under
2013

Son of Batman
2014

Thirst
1998

Ash Tuesday
2003

Batman: Assault on Arkham
2014

Five Desperate Hours
1997

Sweet Lorraine
1987

Please Don't Feed the Children
2025

Brother Nature
2016

Poker Night
2014

Stardust
1998

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998

The Jungle Book
2016

The Cotton Club
1984

Heartbeat
1987

Maximum Overdrive
1986

Mood Indigo
1993

The Electric State
2025

Maze Runner: The Death Cure
2018

Money Monster
2016

Euphoria
2022

Roanoak
1986

Timms Valley
2013

The Gentleman Bandit
1981

The Show
2017

The Pills: Sempre meglio che lavorare
2016

Captain America: Brave New World
2025

Okja
2017

Where's Marlowe?
1998

On Meditation
2016

Running
1979

Desperately Seeking Susan
1985

Unacknowledged
2017

The Tomorrow Man
1996

Trading Places
1983

Blind Horizon
2003

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993

Amos & Andrew
1993

Josephine
2000

Requiem for the Big East
2014

Stuck
2019

Finnegan Begin Again
1985

Coda
2020

Tutti a squola
1979
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Show | 2017 | Producer |