Giancarlo Esposito

Acting · Born 1958-04-26 in 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…

Filmography

• Night on Earth as YoYo
• Do the Right Thing as Buggin Out
• Smoke as 1st OTB Man / Tommy
• The Usual Suspects as Jack Baer
• Malcolm X as Thomas Hayer
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem as Baxter Stockman (voice)
• Fresh as Esteban
• Last Holiday as Senator Dillings
• Son of Batman as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
• Batman: Assault on Arkham as Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)

TV

• Third Watch as Father Romero
• Ghost Whisperer as Ely Fisher
• CSI: Miami as Chief Braga
• Bones as Richard Benoit
• The Practice as Ray McMurphy
• DuckTales as Phantom Blot (voice)
• Homicide: Life on the Street as Michael Giardello
• Breaking Bad as Gus Fring
• Community as Gilbert Lawson
• Better Call Saul as Gus Fring