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Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is an American actor and director. He rose to prominence for his portrayal of Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2009–2011), a role he reprised in the spin-off Better Call Saul (2017–2022). For this role, Esposito won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series twice and earned three nominations for the…
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Born 26 April 1958 · Q726142
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2026· 2 entries
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2025· 1 entry
Also had a guest role in the second season of the crime mystery series Poker Face
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2024· 1 entry
Launched his first graphic novel, The Venetian
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2022· 1 entry
Esposito played Taxi Driver in Euphoria, a film installation by Julian Rosefeldt
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2019· 1 entry
Appeared in the first-season finale of The Boys as Stan Edgar, and reprised the role in the second and third season
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2017· 1 entry
Esposito reprised his role as Gus Fring in the Breaking Bad prequel series, Better Call Saul
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2016· 1 entry
Esposito voiced Akela in the film The Jungle Book, which was directed by Jon Favreau
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2008· 2 entries
Made his directorial debut with Gospel Hill, serving also as producer and star of the film
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Appeared on Broadway as Gooper in an African American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Debbie Allen and starring James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Anik
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2006· 1 entry
Esposito starred in Last Holiday as Senator Dillings, alongside Queen Latifah and Timothy Hutton
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2005· 1 entry
Esposito played an unsympathetic detective named Esposito in the film Hate Crime, which centers upon homophobia as a theme
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2002· 1 entry
Esposito was cast as a legal eagle in the David E
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1997· 1 entry
Esposito played the film roles of Darryl in Trouble on the Corner and Charlie Dunt in Nothing to Lose
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1996· 1 entry
Esposito was featured in a music video "California" by French superstar Mylène Farmer, directed by Abel Ferrara
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1988· 1 entry
Landed his breakout role as the leader ("Dean Big Brother Almighty") of the black fraternity "Gamma Phi Gamma" in director Spike Lee's film School Daze, exploring color relations at black colleges
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1968· 1 entry
Playing a child opposite Shirley Jones in the short-lived musical Maggie Flynn (1968), set during the New York Draft Riots of 1863
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-04-26.
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