Giancarlo Esposito

Acting · 4.7 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

Trading Places

19837.2

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

20187.1

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

Alex Cross

20125.1

The Cat in the Hat

2026

Nothing to Lose

19976.6

King of New York

19906.8

Desperately Seeking Susan

19856.1

Do the Right Thing

19897.8

Okja

20177.3

Maximum Overdrive

19865.8

Money Monster

20166.4

Batman: Assault on Arkham

20147.3

Rabbit Hole

20106.6

Ali

20016.7

Derailed

20056.4

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

19916.3

Line of Duty

20195.9

Monkeybone

20015.2

Taps

19816.7

Son of Batman

20147.1

Please Don't Feed the Children

20256.2

Night on Earth

19917.5

S.W.A.T.: Firefight

20115.7

Waiting to Exhale

19956.3

Jungle Fever

19916.4

Fresh

19947.2

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

2026

The Cotton Club

19846.5

Stargirl

20207.4

The Show

20175.7

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

20054.8

School Daze

19885.7

By Any Means

2026

Bonnie

20225.3

Amos & Andrew

19935.5

Doing Hard Time

20045.0

Mo' Better Blues

19906.5

Smoke

19957.2

Kill Me

20267.3

Unpregnant

20206.9

Phoenix

19985.5

Coda

20206.0

The Brother from Another Planet

19846.7

Twilight

19986.1

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

20141.5

Et Salammbo?

19708.0

Blind Horizon

20035.8

Poker Night

20145.9

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

2026

Where's Marlowe?

19985.5

The Long Home

2026

Bob Roberts

19926.6

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

19984.2

Blue in the Face

19956.5

Euphoria

2022

Megadoc

20256.5

Feel The Noise

20074.7

Chupacabra Terror

20055.1

Disney 100: Remember That

202310.0

Unacknowledged

20176.3

They Die by Dawn

20132.7

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

19896.9

Mano

2007

Homicide: The Movie

20006.9

Gospel Hill

20084.7

PoliWood

20096.5

Brother Nature

20165.1

The Prince

2026

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

19834.6

A Killer Within

20045.0

Sherrybaby

20066.1

Piñero

20016.1

Back in the Day

20055.2

Reckless

19956.6

Hate Crime

20055.7

Running

19796.7

Beauty

20224.8

Roanoak

19867.0

I Will Avenge You, Iago!

20053.3

Five Desperate Hours

19976.0

Miracle on 42nd Street

2017

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

19949.0

Big City Blues

19974.5

Trouble on the Corner

19973.3

The Box

20075.3

Go Tell It on the Mountain

19846.3

The Gentleman Bandit

19815.7

I Did Not Forget You

2015

Karoshi

2027

Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

2015

Mood Indigo

19939.0

Noise

20047.2

...And Out Comes the Wolf

2026

Over/Under

20133.8

Timms Valley

20136.2

Heartbeat

19877.0

The Maze

19977.5

Sweet Lorraine

198710.0

The Making of 'Ali'

2001

The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare

20165.7

Kla$h

19956.7

The Tomorrow Man

19965.2

The Nagano Tapes

20188.6

Rockabye

19868.2

Rain

20066.0

Peace and Quiet

1994

Stuck

20197.0

Requiem for the Big East

20147.0

NYPD 2069

20047.0

Chelsea on the Rocks

20085.6

On Meditation

20167.0

The Keeper

19955.7

Blood River Crossing

20137.0

Certainty

2011

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

199310.0

Ash Tuesday

20036.2

Tutti a squola

19794.1

Finnegan Begin Again

19856.5

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

201310.0

Josephine

20008.5

Racing Daylight

20073.3

Thirst

19984.8

For NYC

2020

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

2021

Stardust

19986.0

Xenophobia

20088.0

Benders

19949.0

Dreaming American

2011