
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

The Magic Mirror
for The Magic Mirror in Snow White (Dark Fantasy Reboot)
Suggested by kaueoliveira

The Kingdom is trapped in an unnatural, eternal winter. Queen Grimhilde, a sorceress obsessed with immortality, rules with an iron fist, using the life essence of the land to maintain her youth. Her stepdaughter, Snow White, is kept hidden in the castle towers—not just because of her beauty, but because she possesses a rare, raw connection to nature that the Queen fears. When the Magic Mirror reveals that Snow White’s power has surpassed the Queen's, the order is given to cut out her heart. Snow White escapes the executioner (The Huntsman) and flees into the Black Forest, a terrifying realm of twisting roots and dark magic. There, she is taken in not by seven "dwarfs," but by seven outcast miners—disfigured survivors of the Queen's greed living deep underground. The film is a survival thriller where Snow White must harden her heart, learn to wield a blade, and lead a revolution of the broken and the banished to shatter the Queen's mirror and end the winter forever.