Giancarlo Esposito
Born 1958
Known for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Breaking Bad, The Usual Suspects.
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).
Movie Credits
Unacknowledged (2017)
Blood River Crossing (2013)
Megalopolis (2024)
Miracle on 42nd Street (2017)
On Meditation (2016)
Piñero (2001)
The Tomorrow Man (1996)
Kla$h (1995)
Fresh (1994)
Bob Roberts (1992)
School Daze (1988)
Coda (2020)
Unpregnant (2020)
The Show (2017)
Poker Night (2014)
They Die by Dawn (2013)
Feel The Noise (2007)
Big City Blues (1997)
Night on Earth (1991)
Kill Me (1969)
Beauty (2022)
Line of Duty (2019)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Certainty (2011)
S.W.A.T.: Firefight (2011)
Gospel Hill (2008)
The Box (2007)
Last Holiday (2006)
Sherrybaby (2006)
Chupacabra Terror (2005)
Doing Hard Time (2004)
Nothing to Lose (1997)
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
By Any Means (2026)
Son of Batman (2014)
Rain (2006)
Derailed (2005)
A Killer Within (2004)
Monkeybone (2001)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
By Any Means (2026)
The Electric State (2025)
Stargirl (2020)
Okja (2017)
Money Monster (2016)
Racing Daylight (2007)
Back in the Day (2005)
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Noise (2004)
Homicide: The Movie (2000)
Smoke (1995)
LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2026)
LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2026)
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
The Birthday Party (2024)
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Rabbit Hole (2010)
Blind Horizon (2003)
Phoenix (1998)
Twilight (1998)
Abigail (2024)
MaXXXine (2024)
Please Don't Feed the Children (2024)
The Jungle Book (2016)
Alex Cross (2012)
King of New York (1990)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)
Hate Crime (2005)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Taps (1981)
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Brother Nature (2016)
Chelsea on the Rocks (2008)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
PoliWood (2009)
Ali (2001)
