
Acting
Born April 26, 1958 · Copenhagen, Denmark
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.

The Cat in the Hat
2026

Kill Me
2026

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026

Megadoc
2025

Please Don't Feed the Children
2025

The Electric State
2025

Captain America: Brave New World
2025

Megalopolis
2024

MaXXXine
2024

Abigail
2024

Disney 100: Remember That
2023

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023

Euphoria
2022

Bonnie
2022

Beauty
2022

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
2021

Unpregnant
2020

For NYC
2020

Stargirl
2020

Coda
2020

Line of Duty
2019

Stuck
2019

The Nagano Tapes
2018

Maze Runner: The Death Cure
2018

Miracle on 42nd Street
2017

The Show
2017

Okja
2017

Unacknowledged
2017

Brother Nature
2016

On Meditation
2016

Money Monster
2016