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.
228 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 228
The Boys
2019
Law & Order
1990
Breaking Bad
2008
Bones
2005
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
CSI: Miami
2002
Better Call Saul
2015
The Mandalorian
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Westworld
2016
Conan
2010
Once Upon a Time
2011
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Miami Vice
1984
Third Watch
1999
The Practice
1997
7 Dogs
2026
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Chicago Hope
1994
Gen V
2023
Strong Medicine
2000
Community
2009
Las Vegas
2003
The Equalizer
1985
Touched by an Angel
1994
Nash Bridges
1996
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Lie to Me
2009
Leverage
2008
The Division
2001
Harley Quinn
2019
DuckTales
2017
Godfather of Harlem
2019
New York Undercover
1994
Drunk History
2013
Poker Face
2023
Click
2000
Captain America: Brave New World
2025
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Trading Places
1983
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
2022
The Gentlemen
2024
Creepshow
2019
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Fallen Angels
1993
Half & Half
2002
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
The Usual Suspects
1995
Game Changer
2019
Revolution
2012
The Hunger
1997
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
The Residence
2025
Dear White People
2017
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
Abigail
2024
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
The Jungle Book
2016
Street Time
2002
100 Centre Street
2001
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
2018
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023
New Amsterdam
2008
The Electric State
2025
MaXXXine
2024
Jett
2019
Kidnapped
2006
Parish
2024
Allegiance
2015
Soul Food
2000
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
2011
Kaleidoscope
2023
Okja
2017
Swift Justice
1996
Megalopolis
2024
Better Call Saul Employee Training
2017
Bakersfield P.D.
1993
The $treet
2000
The Get Down
2016
NYC 22
2012
Malcolm X
1992
Leg Work
1987
Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys
2020
Ali
2001
Show Me More
2021
Hollywood Black
2024
Please Don't Feed the Children
2025
South Beach
2006
Last Holiday
2006
Maximum Overdrive
1986
The Game Awards
2014
Derailed
2005
Money Monster
2016
Dallas & Robo
2018
Monkeybone
2001
Talking Bad
2013
Nothing to Lose
1997
The Eisen Hour
2021
Do the Right Thing
1989
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
2020
King of New York
1990
Waiting to Exhale
1995
Girls Club
2002
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
Son of Batman
2014
5ive Days to Midnight
2004
Alex Cross
2012
Batman: Assault on Arkham
2014
Smoke
1995
The Cat in the Hat
2026
The Cotton Club
1984
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
Rabbit Hole
2010
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
2011
Creature
1998
Fresh
1994
Night on Earth
1991
Taps
1981
The Broken and the Bad
2020
Line of Duty
2019
Twilight
1998
Jungle Fever
1991
Mo' Better Blues
1990
The Brother from Another Planet
1984
Rebel
2017
Bob Roberts
1992
Stargirl
2020
The Show
2017
The Long Home
—
Homicide: The Movie
2000
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
2005
Unpregnant
2020
Megadoc
2025
Sherrybaby
2006
Blind Horizon
2003
School Daze
1988
Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine
2021
PoliWood
2009
Blue in the Face
1995
Bonnie
2022
Kill Me
2026
Gospel Hill
2008
Roanoak
1986
Coda
2020
Chupacabra Terror
2005
Amos & Andrew
1993
Phoenix
1998
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
Reckless
1995
The Haunting Of...
2012
Doing Hard Time
2004
Disney 100: Remember That
2023
Hate Crime
2005
Beauty
2022
Brother Nature
2016
The Box
2007
Piñero
2001
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
A Killer Within
2004
Rain
2006
They Die by Dawn
2013
Back in the Day
2005
Trouble on the Corner
1997
By Any Means
2026
Where's Marlowe?
1998
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
Feel The Noise
2007
Rockabye
1986
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983
Stuck
2019
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
—
Poker Night
2014
The Gentleman Bandit
1981
Kla$h
1995
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
Running
1979
Unacknowledged
2017
Ash Tuesday
2003
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
Certainty
2011
The Prince
—
The Keeper
1995
Timms Valley
2013
Over/Under
2013
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
NYPD 2069
2004
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Heartbeat
1987
Karoshi
—
Thirst
1998
For NYC
2020
Euphoria
2022
Sweet Lorraine
1987
Big City Blues
1997
Mood Indigo
1993
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
2021
Benders
1994
Racing Daylight
2007
Roanoak
1986
The Tomorrow Man
1996
Mano
2007
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
Five Desperate Hours
1997
The Maze
1997
Noise
2004
The Nagano Tapes
2018
I Will Avenge You, Iago!
2005
...And Out Comes the Wolf
—
Tutti a squola
1979
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
1994
The Making of 'Ali'
2001
I Did Not Forget You
2015
The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
2016
Stardust
1998
Requiem for the Big East
2014
Xenophobia
2008
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
Dreaming American
2011
Josephine
2000
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
2015
On Meditation
2016
Mylène Farmer: California
1996
Et Salammbo?
1970
Blood River Crossing
2013