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) ...
Known For
Movies
- Night on Earth
1991
- Megalopolis
2024
- Do the Right Thing
1989
- Mylène Farmer: Californ...
1996
- Enormous Changes at the...
1983
- Smoke
1995
- The Usual Suspects
1995
- The Brother from Anothe...
1984
- Malcolm X
1992
- Bob Roberts
1992
- Harley Davidson and the...
1991
- Taps
1981
- For NYC
2020
- A Killer Within
2004
- Gospel Hill
2008
- Feel The Noise
2007
- Blue in the Face
1995
- Bonnie
2022
- Homicide: The Movie
2000
- Nothing to Lose
1997
- Monkeybone
2001
- Ali
2001
- Derailed
2005
- Twilight
1998
- Carlito's Way: Rise to ...
2005
- Chupacabra Terror
2005
- Hate Crime
2005
- King of New York
1990
- Sherrybaby
2006
- Rabbit Hole
2010
- Back in the Day
2005
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Tu...
2023
- Phoenix
1998
- Fresh
1994
- Mo' Better Blues
1990
- School Daze
1988
- MaXXXine
2024
- Last Holiday
2006
- Big City Blues
1997
- Noise
2004
- Kla$h
1995
- The Keeper
1995
- The Box
2007
- S.W.A.T.: Firefight
2011
- Piñero
2001
- Alex Cross
2012
- Abigail
2024
- The Maze
1997
- Trouble on the Corner
1997
- Et Salammbo?
1970
- Benders
1994
- The People
1997
- Mano
2007
- Dreaming American
2011
- I Did Not Forget You
2015
- I Will Avenge You, Iago!
2005
- Xenophobia
2008
- Certainty
2011
- Beauty
2022
- They Die by Dawn
2013
- Rain
2006
- Long Distance Revolutio...
2013
- Go Tell It on the Mount...
1985
- Over/Under
2013
- Son of Batman
2014
- Thirst
1998
- Ash Tuesday
2003
- Batman: Assault on Arkh...
2014
- Five Desperate Hours
1997
- Sweet Lorraine
1987
- Please Don't Feed the C...
2025
- Brother Nature
2016
- Poker Night
2014
- Stardust
1998
- Maze Runner: The Scorch...
2015
- Naked City: Justice wit...
1998
- The Jungle Book
2016
- The Cotton Club
1984
- Heartbeat
1987
- Maximum Overdrive
1986
- The Electric State
2025
- Mood Indigo
1993
- Maze Runner: The Death ...
2018
- Money Monster
2016
- Euphoria
2022
- Roanoak
1986
- Timms Valley
2013
- The Gentleman Bandit
1981
- The Show
2017
- The Pills: Sempre megli...
2016
- The Long Home
- Captain America: Brave ...
2025
- The Prince
2025
- Okja
2017
- Where's Marlowe?
1998
- Making 'Do the Right Th...
1989
- On Meditation
2016
- Running
1979
- Desperately Seeking Sus...
1985
- Unacknowledged
2017
- The Tomorrow Man
1996
- Trading Places
1983
- Blind Horizon
2003
- Seven Songs for Malcolm...
1993
- Amos & Andrew
1993
- Josephine
2000
- Requiem for the Big East
2014
- Stuck
2019
- Finnegan Begin Again
1985
- Coda
2020
- Tutti a squola
1979
- Reckless
1995
- Waiting to Exhale
1995
- Stargirl
2020
- Line of Duty
2019
- Stolen Moments: Red Hot...
1994
- Life's Essentials with ...
2014
- The Nagano Tapes
2018
- Unpregnant
2020
- Enzian: When the Lights...
2015
- Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
- PAYDAY THE MOVIE
2016
- Rockabye
1986
- Doing Hard Time
2004
- Armin Mueller-Stahl - E...
2021
- PoliWood
2009
- Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
- Blood River Crossing
2013
- NYPD 2069
2004
- Out Come the Wolves
- Kill Me
- Racing Daylight
2007
- Your Mother Your Mother...
- By Any Means
TV Shows
- Nash Bridges
1996
- Third Watch
1999
- Law & Order
1990
- Revolution
2012
- Half & Half
2002
- Kidnapped
2006
- New Amsterdam
2008
- Ghost Whisperer
2005
- The $treet
2000
- CSI: Miami
2002
- The Division
2001
- Miami Vice
1984
- Bones
2005
- Las Vegas
2003
- The Eisen Hour
2021
- Soul Food
2000
- Supervillain: The Makin...
2021
- New York Undercover
1994
- The Practice
1997
- The Equalizer
1985
- South Beach
2006
- DuckTales
2017
- Homicide: Life on the S...
1993
- Chicago Hope
1994
- Girls Club
2002
- Bakersfield P.D.
1993
- Criminal Minds: Suspect...
2011
- Law & Order: Trial by J...
2005
- 5ive Days to Midnight
2004
- Street Time
2002
- Swift Justice
1996
- The Haunting Of...
2012
- Breaking Bad
2008
- Community
2009
- Show Me More
2021
- Allegiance
2015
- Drunk History
2013
- Late Night with Seth Me...
2014
- The Get Down
2016
- Game Changer
2019
- Rebel
2017
- Kaleidoscope
2023
- The Boys Presents: Diab...
2022
- Parish
2024
- Home Movie: The Princes...
2020
- Better Call Saul
2015
- Creature
1998
- The Game Awards
2014
- Law & Order
1990
- The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
- Westworld
2016
- The Boys
2019
- Dallas & Robo
2018
- Godfather of Harlem
2019
- Jett
2019
- The Hunger
1997
- The Residence
2025
- Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
- Fallen Angels
1993
- The Gentlemen
2024
- Marvel's Moon Girl and ...
2023
- Ultra City Smiths
2021
- Better Call Saul Employ...
2017
- Dear White People
2017
- The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
- Creepshow
2019
- Leverage
2008
- Harley Quinn
2019
- Strong Medicine
2000
- Once Upon a Time
2011
- Miami Vice
1984
- The Broken and the Bad
2020
- Miami Vice
1984
- NYC 22
2012
- Touched by an Angel
1994
- Prime Rewind: Inside Th...
2020
- The Boys
2019
- 100 Centre Street
2001
- Disney Gallery / Star W...
2020
- Conan
2010
- The Mandalorian
2019
- The Tonight Show Starri...
2014
- Leg Work
1987
- Click
2000
- By Whatever Means Neces...
2020