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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.

as Gus Fring

as Meerkat Stan Edgar (voice)
2019

as Defense Attorney Rodney Fallon
1990

as Gus Fring
2008

as Richard Benoit
2005

as Self
2014

as Self - Guest
2014

as Chief Braga
2002

as Gus Fring
2015

as Self
2019

as Self
2010

as Moff Gideon
2019

as Self
2022
2026

as Mr. Hoogeboom (voice)
2026
2026

as Vernon Dahmer
2026

2026

as Dr. Singer
2026

as Detective Warren
2026

as Self
2025

as Fitz
2025

as Colonel Bradbury / The Marshall
2025

as Sidewinder
2025

as Mayor Cicero
2024

as Teddy Knight, Esq.
2024

as Lambert
2024

as Self
2023

as Baxter Stockman (voice)
2023

as Taxi Driver
2022

as Self
2022

as Beauty's Father
2022

as Self
2021

as Bob
2020

2020

as Archie Brubaker
2020

as Paul
2020

as Tom Volk
2019
as Gus Fring
28 ep.

as Meerkat Stan Edgar (voice)
1 episodes

as Defense Attorney Rodney Fallon
3 episodes

as Gus Fring
28 episodes

as Richard Benoit
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
1 episodes

as Chief Braga
3 episodes

as Gus Fring
40 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Moff Gideon
9 episodes

as Self
2 episodes

as El Lazo
1 episodes

as Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror
14 episodes

as Ely Fisher
1 episodes

as Ray McMurphy
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
1 episodes

as Father Romero
1 episodes

as Cherchez LaFemme
1 episodes

as Adonis Jackson
1 episodes

as Gilbert Lawson
2 episodes

as James 'Junior' Bell
1 episodes

as Reggie Archibald
1 episodes

as Antonio Gaudi
1 episodes