
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

Ralph Branner
for Ralph Branner in Plastic Man (2009)
Suggested by crimsonking44

Patrick O’Brian is a petty criminal willing to take almost any job alongside his best friend, Woozy Winks. While working as an enforcer for a small gang, Patrick is kidnapped and exposed to mysterious chemicals that melt his body, leaving him presumed dead. Found by FBI agent Nancy Morgan, Patrick awakens with immense shapeshifting powers. Brought before FBI Chief Branner, Patrick learns the gang who betrayed him is part of a vast criminal network kidnapping and mutating people for unknown purposes. He is offered a clean slate in exchange for helping bring them down. Patrick, now calling himself Plastic Man, alongside Woozy and Nancy, investigate similar past incidents like his own, battling a series of bizarre mutated villains while he struggles to leave his criminal past behind and prove he can change. Their investigation finally leads them to Gotham City, where Plastic Man teams up with the no-nonsense Batman to stop the true mastermind, Professor Radium, a scientist who mutated others in a desperate attempt to create someone who could cure his own radioactive condition. After a chaotic final battle, Plastic Man defeats the villain, earns a place as an FBI ally, and begins a new life.