
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

Emmanuel Da Costa
for Emmanuel Da Costa in The New Mutants 3 (2024/2025)
Suggested by ceejeezy

In the epic third and final chapter of the New Mutants trilogy, the story unfolds in a post-"Logan" (2030s) world where mutants are in decline and hope is scarce. The New Mutants, now more mature and united, are one of the last hopes for the survival of mutants. When a new threat emerges, bringing the return of Nathaniel Essex, aka Mister Sinister, the New Mutants find themselves facing their greatest challenge yet. Essex, obsessed with mutant evolution and genetic manipulation, plans to use the remaining mutants for his own sinister ends. And to do so, he is willing to destroy anyone who opposes him. With the help of Laura Kinney, X-23, who escaped from the Essex Corporation, the New Mutants must gather their strength and skills to stop Mister Sinister and his conspiracy. The film delves into the mutants' fight for survival in a hostile and hopeless world, exploring the legacy left by Logan and the impact he had on the lives of the New Mutants.
