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
Director Cyrano
for Director Cyrano in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero
Suggested by demurelyhydrated
The grand finale to the Scarlet and Violet live-action/CGI animation movie series, which adapts the games' DLC storyline. Some time has passed since Florian, Juliana and their friends made their fateful trip down to Area Zero, and things have mostly returned to normal. With the school's Treasure Hunt drawing to a close, everyone's minds are on the annual report they have to write about the treasure they discovered during the hunt, and the future aspirations they're contemplating as graduation draws near... But as they try to piece this together, our heroes find themselves chosen for a school field trip to Kitakami and an exchange program with their school's sister university Blueberry Academy, which draws them into the lives of timid Kieran and his brash older sister Carmine in an epic journey that leads them right back to Area Zero... Age-accurate casting only, don't cast white people as characters of color or light-skinned actors as dark-skinned characters, see roles for further character details.
