
Age: 68
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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.

Giancarlo Esposito

Victor Fries
for Victor Fries in Christopher Nolan's Nightwing
Suggested by underworld_stories

When professor Hugo Strange starts creating meta-humans including Killer Croc, Solomon Grundy, and Silver Banshee John "Robin" Blake aka Nightwing starts looking into it and eventually starts to find that Hugo Strange has been dead for decades and someone else has been using his name. Throughout the movie John looks into these meta-humans while a man named Victor Fries starts getting involved with criminals to pay for his sick wife's treatment eventually leading him to meet his untimely end in a vat of chemicals while being chased by Commissioner Barbara Gordon II into Ace Chemicals. Lucky for Victor his employer who has been using the alias Hugo Strange brings him back as Mr. Freeze. John eventually gets into a confrontation with Victor where Victor accidentally kills himself with his ice gun. John tracks down Hugo only to discover that Hugo is actually Amanda Waller the warden of Belle Reve prison. The movie ends with Amanda going to prison and John at Alfred Pennyworth's grave vowing to stop these meta-humans as a man steps out of his car and goes to speak with John. He tells John that he knows he is Nightwing and wants to help. John asks who he is and the man tells him his name is Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne sent him.





