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
Dr. François Duvalier
for Dr. François Duvalier in The Black Christ
Suggested by benpopplewell
While there is an official announcement from Paramount Pictures regarding a project specifically about the Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier starring Giancarlo Esposito, the most anticipated title for a supernatural horror project of this nature would likely be the best supernatural horror movie. Unlike past films like The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), a project with Giancarlo Esposito (known for his chillingly precise villains) would offer a more authentic and terrifying portrayal of the Vodou dictator and the psychological grip he held over Haiti. The plot has the detail about the secret police headquarters of the Tonton Macoute became a temple of fear. High-ranking Macoutes, often chosen from the ranks of Houngans (voodoo priests), conducted rituals where they utilized human sacrifice to consolidate their power. Reports from terrified citizens spoke of skulls piled high in the headquarters—sacred vessels ("voodoo jars") containing the stolen souls of the regime's opponents, as Duvalier began practicing a sinister form of political control. Dissidents were not merely killed; they were poisoned with tetrodotoxin (zombie powder), rendered into a catatonic state, and declared dead. After burial, the Macoutes would dig them up, creating "zombies" who were then used as slave labor or paraded as a horrifying symbol of disobedience.
