Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 26th, 1958 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 66, Giancarlo Esposito biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an actor and director that holds Italian and American citizenship.
He has played Gustavo "Gus" Fring on the AMC shows Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, a role for which he won the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Award at the 2012 Critics' Choice Television Awards and was nominated for an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards.
He stars in the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian on Disney+ which premiered in 2019. He has appeared in Spike Lee films such as Do the Right Thing, School Daze, and Mo' Better Blues.
His feature film appearances include Fresh, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, The Usual Suspects, and King of New York.
He has played Tom Neville in the NBC series Revolution and Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
He has had roles in two Netflix original series: The Get Down, wherein he portrays Pastor Ramon Cruz, and Dear White People, which he narrates.
He also voiced "The Dentist" in the video game Payday 2.
Early life
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of Giovanni "John" C. Esposito (1931–2002), an Italian stagehand and carpenter from Naples, and Elizabeth "Leesa" Foster (1926–2017), an African American opera and nightclub singer from Alabama.
When Esposito was six, his family moved to Manhattan. He attended Elizabeth Seton College in New York and earned a two-year degree in radio and television communications.
Personal life
Esposito was married to Joy McManigal. They have four daughters. They subsequently divorced.
He was raised Catholic and considered becoming a priest.
Career
Esposito made his Broadway debut in 1968, portraying an enslaved child opposite Shirley Jones in the short-lived musical Maggie Flynn (1968), which occurred during the New York Draft Riots of 1863. He was also a member of the Stephen Sondheim-Harold Prince project Merrily We Roll Along, which ended with 16 performances and 56 previews in 1981.
Esposito appeared in films including Maximum Overdrive, King of New York, and Trading Places during the 1980s. He has appeared on television shows such as Miami Vice and Spenser: For Hire. In the 1981 film Taps, J. C. Pierce, a cadet, appeared.
He landed his breakout role in director Spike Lee's film School Daze in 1988 as the leader ("Dean Big Brother Almighty") of the black fraternity "Gamma Phi Gamma," investigating race relations in black colleges. Esposito and Lee worked on three other films, Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, and Malcolm X. Esposito appeared in Night on Earth, Fresh and Smoke, as well as its sequel Blue in the Face in the 1990s. He appeared in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Reckless with Mia Farrow, and Waiting to Exhale starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett. Esposito was featured in a French superstar Mylène Farmer's "California" music video directed by Abel Ferrara in 1996.
On the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street, Esposito played FBI agent Mike Giardello. Both his African American and Italian roots influenced his role. He appeared in the show's seventh and final seasons, as well as reprised his role in the 2000 made-for-TV film. Sergeant Paul Gigante played a second multiracial role in Bakersfield, P.D., in the television comedy.
Esposito appeared in Darryl on the Corner and Charlie Dunt in Nothing to Lose in 1997. Other television credits include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Practice, New York Undercover, and Fearless.
Esposito has portrayed drug dealers (Fresh, Breaking Bad, King of New York, Better Call Saul), policemen (The Usual Suspects, Derailed), political radicals (Bob Roberts, Do the Right Thing), and a demonic version of the Greek God of Sleep Hypnos from another dimension (Monkeybone). Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. in Ali, and Miguel Algarn, a friend and collaborator of Nuyorican poet Miguel Piero, played in Piero in 2001.
Esposito was first introduced as a legal eagle in the David E. Kelley television drama Girls Club in 2002. Although the series only lasted one season and received no glowing feedback, Esposito, who reported to The Washington Post, "I started to play bosses." "Okay, here's a chance," I thought.' It was a great start for me to show who I really was. And it's still going like this."
Esposito played Esposito, the nefarious detective in the film Hate Crime, which revolves around homophobia as a theme.
Esposito appeared in Last Holiday as Senator Dillings, as well as Queen Latifah and Timothy Hutton. On the UPN television show South Beach, Esposito played Robert Fuentes, a Miami businessman with shady connections. He appeared in New Amsterdam and Miami as well as CSI: Miami. He performed ex-musician Roberto, the Puerto Rican father of Omarion Grandberry's character, in "Felt the Noise" (2006), a young rap actor. He made his directorial debut with Gospel Hill in 2008, as both a producer and actor.
The Me Nobody Knows, Lost in the Stars, Seesaw, and Merrily We Roll Along are all three Broadway plays for Esposito. In 2008, he appeared on Broadway as Gooper in an African American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, and Terrence Howard.
Esposito appeared in seasons 2 to 4 of AMC's Breaking Bad as Gus Fring, the head of a New Mexico-based methamphetamine drug ring. He was the show's key antagonist in the fourth season and received critical acclaim for his role. He received the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama award at the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards, but lost to co-star Aaron Paul.
Esposito appeared in the film Rabbit Hole (2010). In addition, he appeared in the ABC program Once Upon a Time, which premiered in October 2011. In the town of Storybrooke, Maine, Sidney Glass, a reporter for The Daily Mirror, played the dual role of a genie trapped in The Magic Mirror, which is possessed by the Evil Queen in a similar fairy tale setting. Esposito will reprise his role in later seasons as a guest star. Esposito appeared in Revolution as Major Tom Neville, a central figure who murders Ben Matheson in the pilot. He takes a fugited Danny to the Monroe Republic's capital, Philadelphia.
Esposito appeared on "Digital Estate Planning" in the community as a guest star. In the episode titled "Paranormal Parentage," he appeared again in the fourth season. Esposito has also appeared in a video of Destiny's action role-playing sci-fi first-person shooter game Destiny, as well as plays The Dentist, a non-playable story character in the game Payday 2.
He's been a member of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies collection. In Son of Batman and Eric Needham/Black Spider in Batman: Assault on Arkham, he appeared Ra's al Ghul. He appeared in the first season of The Get Down on Netflix. Esposito reprised his role as Gus Fring in the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul in 2017. Stan Edgar played him in the first season of The Boys in 2019 and reprised the role in the second and third seasons.
In the film The Jungle Book, directed by Jon Favreau, Esposito portrayed Akela in 2016. Esposito and Favreau will collaborate in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, in which Esposito appears in a supporting role, while Favreau plays as both a producer and a writer. In the 2019 Epix series Godfather of Harlem, he plays New York congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Esposito's role in "a huge video game" was teased in July 2020. His role as the chief antagonist of Ubisoft's Far Cry 6, in which he will portray and voice Antón Castillo, the rebel king of Yara, was revealed later.
