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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.

After getting kicked out of his home and losing all his friends because he's a mutant, Scott Summers loses the will to live and goes to a bridge to jump, but before he can a man named Eric Lensherr approaches him and tells him of his team where if he joins, he will be loved and accepted and can put the humans who abandoned him to shame. It takes a while to decide but Scott eventually agrees to go with Eric. Throughout the movie Eric makes Scott do terrible things while Scott believes he's doing good. Eric manipulates Scott into becoming the monster the world thinks he is all while telling him things that his family never told him that make him feel accepted. Scott eventually ends up fighting the Iceman and while doing so puts Iceman in a coma. Eventually another guy working with Eric tells Scott that a kid like him shouldn't be there and that Eric is manipulating him. Scott asks why Logan is there and Logan tells him that it's all he can do now. Scott soon realizes that things aren't as they should be, he let his need to feel accepted and will to do what he thought was right cloud his judgment. He turns on Eric leading to a fight between Scott and Logan. Logan tells Sott he should have left, and they start fighting to the death until it's cut short by Jean Grey who had been spying on them and she takes Scott to the X Mansion where Scott meets Charles Xavier. Bobby soon wakes up from his coma and forgives Scott and they decide to work to defeat Eric and his mutants.

