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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.
Latveria is a small European nation located in southeastern Europe, outside of the city of Haasenstadt is where the Zefiro clan often camped. The clan were referred to as gypsies by the outside world despite the people living peaceful lives as Latverian and Romani wanderers. The clan however were often the victims of harassment, discrimination and persecution the Baron and his men, and while many Zefiro accepted this behaviour, there was one member of the clan that would. A sorceress named Cynthia von Doom who had witnessed her people persecuted and harassed for decades cast a spell in an attempt to give her magical powers to fight for her people. The spell was unsuccessful however it summoned a power demon known as Mephisto. Cynthia made a deal with the demon, promising her soul in order to gain the power of Mephisto. Once Cynthia gained her new power, she went into the village in an attempt to fight back against the Baron and its men. While successful, it also came at the cost of Cynthia accidentally killing many of the children of the village, sadden by her faults she renounced her power and was killed by the village’s soldiers. Cynthia’s body was left for dead until it was discovered by her husband Werner, in her last dying breathe she begs her husband to keep their son safe.
