
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

Dean "peppy" Herbert
for Dean "peppy" Herbert in Spike Lee's osu!
Suggested by elkmane

In Spike Lee's latest subversive award-winning film, Osu Johnson is a free-to-play rhythm game primarily developed, published, and created by Dean "peppy" Herbert, Which will delve into the legal battles that took place during the Cold War inspired by iNiS' rhythm game Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, it was written in C# on the .NET framework, with Osu, a nine-year-old girl diagnosed with stage four cancer, and was released for Microsoft Windows on 16 September 2007. With Osu Johnson and Peppy, they will all have to fight for her life and learn the the true meaning of spike LEE!!! Osu Johnson is about a girl named Osu who is a Tobi-level (they're super hard) in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, which is a b-boy simulator which offers players the chance to fight in three different ways (one being run and gun) in an alternate 90's story that looks like Tron meets the B-boy world of NYC. Osu 's story and life-threatening condition draws you in right away and by playing the game, you have the chance to help fight for someone you love, which resonates well with me. Osu, the main character and her family, they have each taken this chance to escape life as usual and with the help of a demon mascot, have the chance to play in a completely different way.