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
General William Starkey
for General William Starkey in Josh Boone's The Stand - Part 1
Suggested by michaelcosby
In a world decimated by "Captain Trips," a super-flu that kills 99% of the population, the few survivors are haunted by prophetic dreams. They are called west by Mother Abagail, a 108-year-old woman who represents the remaining light, and east by Randall Flagg, a grinning, darkly charismatic figure who embodies pure, chaotic evil. As the survivors—including Texas everyman Stu Redman, pregnant young Frannie Goldsmith, struggling musician Larry Underwood, deaf-mute drifter Nick Andros, and gentle giant Tom Cullen—journey across a corpse-choked America, they must choose a side. The film follows their harrowing paths through plague, tornadoes, and madness, culminating in their gathering in Nebraska. As Flagg amasses his followers in Las Vegas, the stage is set for a final confrontation between good and evil, ending on a cliffhanger as the dark man's red eye opens and Trashcan Man whispers, "My life for you."
