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.
132 movies · 89 shows
7 Dogs
2026·5.8
Kill Me
2026·10.0
Megadoc
2025·6.5
Please Don't Feed the Children
2025·6.2
The Electric State
2025·6.5
Captain America: Brave New World
2025·6.0
Megalopolis
2024·5.2
MaXXXine
2024·6.3
Abigail
2024·6.7
Disney 100: Remember That
2023·10.0
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023·7.2
Euphoria
2022·0.0
Bonnie
2022·5.3
Beauty
2022·4.8
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
2021·0.0
Unpregnant
2020·6.9
For NYC
2020·0.0
Stargirl
2020·7.4
Coda
2020·6.0
Line of Duty
2019·5.9
Stuck
2019·7.0
The Nagano Tapes
2018·8.6
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
2018·7.1
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017·0.0
The Show
2017·5.7
Okja
2017·7.3
Unacknowledged
2017·6.3
Brother Nature
2016·5.1
On Meditation
2016·7.0
Money Monster
2016·6.4
The Jungle Book
2016·6.9
The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
2016·5.7
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
2015·0.0
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015·6.7
I Did Not Forget You
2015·0.0
Poker Night
2014·5.9
Batman: Assault on Arkham
2014·7.3
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014·1.5
Son of Batman
2014·7.1
Requiem for the Big East
2014·7.0
Timms Valley
2013·6.2
They Die by Dawn
2013·2.7
Blood River Crossing
2013·7.0
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013·10.0
Over/Under
2013·3.8
Alex Cross
2012·5.1
Certainty
2011·0.0
Dreaming American
2011·0.0
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
2011·5.7
Rabbit Hole
2010·6.6
PoliWood
2009·6.5
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008·5.6
Gospel Hill
2008·4.7
Xenophobia
2008·8.0
Mano
2007·0.0
Feel The Noise
2007·4.7
Racing Daylight
2007·3.3
The Box
2007·5.3
Sherrybaby
2006·6.1
Rain
2006·6.0
Last Holiday
2006·7.3
Derailed
2005·6.4
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
2005·4.8
Back in the Day
2005·5.2
I Will Avenge You, Iago!
2005·3.3
Chupacabra Terror
2005·5.1
Hate Crime
2005·5.7
Doing Hard Time
2004·5.0
A Killer Within
2004·5.0
NYPD 2069
2004·7.0
Noise
2004·7.2
Blind Horizon
2003·5.8
Ash Tuesday
2003·6.2
The Making of 'Ali'
2001·0.0
Ali
2001·6.8
Piñero
2001·6.1
Monkeybone
2001·5.2
Homicide: The Movie
2000·6.9
Josephine
2000·8.5
Thirst
1998·4.7
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998·4.2
Where's Marlowe?
1998·5.5
Phoenix
1998·5.5
Twilight
1998·6.1
Stardust
1998·6.0
Trouble on the Corner
1997·3.3
Five Desperate Hours
1997·6.0
Big City Blues
1997·4.6
Nothing to Lose
1997·6.6
The Maze
1997·7.5
The Tomorrow Man
1996·5.2
Waiting to Exhale
1995·6.3
Reckless
1995·6.6
Blue in the Face
1995·6.5
The Keeper
1995·5.7
The Usual Suspects
1995·8.2
Smoke
1995·7.2
Kla$h
1995·6.7
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
1994·9.0
Fresh
1994·7.2
Peace and Quiet
1994·0.0
Benders
1994·9.0
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993·10.0
Amos & Andrew
1993·5.5
Mood Indigo
1993·9.0
Malcolm X
1992·7.6
Bob Roberts
1992·6.5
Night on Earth
1991·7.5
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991·6.3
Jungle Fever
1991·6.4
Mo' Better Blues
1990·6.5
King of New York
1990·6.8
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989·6.9
Do the Right Thing
1989·7.8
School Daze
1988·5.7
Heartbeat
1987·7.0
Sweet Lorraine
1987·10.0
Maximum Overdrive
1986·5.8
Roanoak
1986·7.0
Rockabye
1986·8.2
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985·6.1
Finnegan Begin Again
1985·6.5
The Cotton Club
1984·6.5
The Brother from Another Planet
1984·6.7
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984·6.3
Trading Places
1983·7.2
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983·4.6
Taps
1981·6.7
The Gentleman Bandit
1981·5.7
Running
1979·6.7
Tutti a squola
1979·4.1
Et Salammbo?
1970·8.0