Giancarlo Esposito

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.

Cast

Night on Earth
YoYo
Megalopolis
Mayor Cicero
Do the Right Thing
Buggin Out
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Julio
Smoke
1st OTB Man / Tommy
The Usual Suspects
Jack Baer
The Brother from Another Planet
Man Being Arrested (uncredited)
Malcolm X
Thomas Hayer
Bob Roberts
Bugs Raplin
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Jimmy Jiles
Taps
Cadet Captain J.C. Pierce
For NYC
Unknown
A Killer Within
Vargas
Gospel Hill
Dr. Palmer
Feel The Noise
Roberto Vega
Blue in the Face
Tommy Finelli
Bonnie
Self
Homicide: The Movie
Mike Giardello
Nothing to Lose
Charlie Dunt
Monkeybone
Hypnos
Ali
Cassius Clay, Sr.
Derailed
Detective Church
Twilight
Reuben Escobar
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Little Jeff
Chupacabra Terror
Dr. Peña
Hate Crime
Detective Esposito
King of New York
Lance
Sherrybaby
Parole Officer Hernandez
Rabbit Hole
Auggie
Back in the Day
Benson Cooper
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Baxter Stockman (voice)
Phoenix
Louie
Fresh
Esteban
Mo' Better Blues
Left Hand Lacey (Piano)
School Daze
Julian 'Dean Big Brother Almighty' Eaves
MaXXXine
Teddy Knight, Esq.
Last Holiday
Senator Dillings
Big City Blues
Georgie
Noise
Hank
Kla$h
Stoney
The Keeper
Paul Lamont
The Box
Dwayne Burkhalter
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Inspector Hollander
Piñero
Miguel Algarin
Alex Cross
Daramus Holiday
Abigail
Lambert
The Maze
Henry Kunitz
Trouble on the Corner
Darryl
Et Salammbo?
Unknown
Benders
Jack
Mano
Nino
Dreaming American
Daytona LeMans
I Did Not Forget You
Dr. Sabian
I Will Avenge You, Iago!
Director
Xenophobia
Young
Certainty
Father Heery
Beauty
Beauty's Father
They Die by Dawn
Rufus Buck
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Elisha
Over/Under
Oliver Ohrt
Son of Batman
Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Thirst
Dr. Lawrence Carver
Ash Tuesday
Karl
Batman: Assault on Arkham
Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)
Five Desperate Hours
Joseph Grange
Sweet Lorraine
Howie
Please Don't Feed the Children
Fitz
Brother Nature
Congressman Frank McClaren
Poker Night
Bernard
Stardust
Mr. Peavey
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Jorge
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Chaz Villanueva
The Jungle Book
Akela (voice)
The Cotton Club
Bumpy Hood
Heartbeat
Gang Member #1
Maximum Overdrive
Videoplayer
The Electric State
Colonel Bradbury / The Marshall
Mood Indigo
Arthur Sistrunk
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Jorge
Money Monster
Captain Powell
Euphoria
Taxi Driver
Roanoak
Simon Fernandes
Timms Valley
Pruit Normings
The Gentleman Bandit
Jamie
The Show
Mason Washington
The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
Il Boss
The Long Home
Unknown
Captain America: Brave New World
Sidewinder
The Prince
Unknown
Okja
Frank Dawson
Where's Marlowe?
Blind Man (uncredited)
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Self
On Meditation
Self
Running
Puerto Rican Teenager
Desperately Seeking Susan
Street Vendor
Unacknowledged
Narrator
The Tomorrow Man
Jonathan Driscoll
Trading Places
Cellmate #2
Blind Horizon
J.C. Reynolds
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Autobiography Reading (voice)
Amos & Andrew
The Reverend Fenton Brunch
Josephine
Spike
Requiem for the Big East
Narrator
Stuck
Lloyd
Finnegan Begin Again
Intruder
Coda
Paul
Tutti a squola
Unknown
Reckless
Host Tim Timko
Waiting to Exhale
David Matthews (uncredited)
Stargirl
Archie Brubaker
Line of Duty
Tom Volk
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
Self
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
The Nagano Tapes
Narrator
Unpregnant
Bob
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
Self (archive footage)
Chelsea on the Rocks
Tip
Rockabye
Marcus
Doing Hard Time
Captain Pierce
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Self
PoliWood
Self
Miracle on 42nd Street
self
Blood River Crossing
Narrator
NYPD 2069
Lt. Garner
...And Out Comes the Wolf
Unknown
Kill Me
Unknown
Racing Daylight
Fred
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Unknown
By Any Means
Vernon Dahmer
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Unknown
Karoshi
Unknown
The Cat in the Hat
Mr. Hoogeboom (voice)
Rain
Ken Arnold
Mylène Farmer: California
Rich Man/Pimp
Megadoc
Self
Jungle Fever
Homeless Man
Making of Better Call Saul: Finale
Self