Giancarlo Esposito

Acting · 4.9 popularity

Age

Movies

140

Born: April 26, 1958
From: Copenhagen, Denmark

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.

Works

140 films

Captain America: Brave New World

20256.0

The Usual Suspects

19958.2

The Electric State

20256.5

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

20156.7

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

20187.1

Trading Places

19837.2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

20237.2

The Jungle Book

20166.9

Abigail

20246.7

MaXXXine

20246.3

Last Holiday

20067.3

7 Dogs

20266.1

Malcolm X

19927.6

Megalopolis

20245.2

Desperately Seeking Susan

19856.1

Nothing to Lose

19976.6

King of New York

19906.8

Maximum Overdrive

19865.8

Alex Cross

20125.1

The Cat in the Hat

2026

Do the Right Thing

19897.8

Okja

20177.3

Batman: Assault on Arkham

20147.3

Money Monster

20166.4

Ali

20016.7

Rabbit Hole

20106.6

Bonnie

20225.3

Monkeybone

20015.2

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

19916.3

Derailed

20056.4

Line of Duty

20195.9

S.W.A.T.: Firefight

20115.7

Son of Batman

20147.1

Taps

19816.7

Night on Earth

19917.5

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

2026

Please Don't Feed the Children

20256.2

Waiting to Exhale

19956.3

Stargirl

20207.4

Jungle Fever

19916.4

Fresh

19947.2

The Cotton Club

19846.5

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

20054.8

The Show

20175.7

School Daze

19885.7

Kill Me

20267.3

By Any Means

2026

Amos & Andrew

19935.5

Coda

20206.0

Smoke

19957.2

The Brother from Another Planet

19846.7

Phoenix

19985.5

Doing Hard Time

20045.0

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

20141.5

Mo' Better Blues

19906.5

Twilight

19986.1

Unpregnant

20206.9

Blind Horizon

20035.8

The Long Home

2026

Et Salammbo?

19708.0

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

2026

Homicide: The Movie

20006.9

Poker Night

20145.9

Bob Roberts

19926.6

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

19984.2

Megadoc

20256.5

Feel The Noise

20074.7

Disney 100: Remember That

202310.0

Where's Marlowe?

19985.5

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

19896.9

Blue in the Face

19956.5

Unacknowledged

20176.3

Euphoria

2022

Back in the Day

20055.2

Chupacabra Terror

20055.1

Sherrybaby

20066.1

Mano

2007

Go Tell It on the Mountain

19846.3

Beauty

20224.8

Reckless

19956.6

A Killer Within

20045.0

The Prince

2026

Trouble on the Corner

19973.3

Brother Nature

20165.1

They Die by Dawn

20132.7

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

19834.6

Gospel Hill

20084.7

Hate Crime

20055.7

Running

19796.7

I Will Avenge You, Iago!

20053.3

I Did Not Forget You

2015

Miracle on 42nd Street

2017

PoliWood

20096.5

Five Desperate Hours

19976.0

...And Out Comes the Wolf

2026

Piñero

20016.1

Karoshi

2027

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

19949.0

The Box

20075.3

Roanoak

19867.0

Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

2015

Rain

20066.0

Mood Indigo

19939.0

The Tomorrow Man

19965.2

Timms Valley

20136.2

Kla$h

19956.7

The Keeper

19955.7

The Making of 'Ali'

2001

Over/Under

20133.8

The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare

20165.7

The Gentleman Bandit

19815.7

Sweet Lorraine

198710.0

Noise

20047.2

Tutti a squola

19794.1

Big City Blues

19974.5

Certainty

2011

Heartbeat

19877.0

Chelsea on the Rocks

20085.6

The Maze

19977.5

Josephine

20008.5

Finnegan Begin Again

19856.5

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

199310.0

NYPD 2069

20047.0

The Nagano Tapes

20188.6

Thirst

19984.8

Stuck

20197.0

Peace and Quiet

1994

Rockabye

19868.2

Requiem for the Big East

20147.0

Ash Tuesday

20036.2

On Meditation

20167.0

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

2021

Xenophobia

20088.0

Blood River Crossing

20137.0

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

201310.0

For NYC

2020

Racing Daylight

20073.3

Stardust

19986.0

Benders

19949.0

Dreaming American

2011