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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.
After a decade of hiding, mutants are finally encouraged to step forward into the real world and not be afraid anymore. Due to the fear of what the rest of the world would do if they found out, many mutants stayed hiding in plain sight if they could, others were forced out into the darkness where they could not be seen. Charles Xavier is approached by the government who inform him that they had been keeping his old friend Erik Lensherr in a high security prison for the last couple years after discovering his powers, the government tell Charles that he has just recently escaped among all the talk of mutants being among the community. Charles becomes worried that Erik may use the popularity of mutants to his advantage and create a team of mutants to go to war against the humans with him. Charles uses Cerebro to encourage other mutanout there to come forward and join him at his school for gifted children where he will teach them to control their abilities and gear them toward defeating Erik and his team of mutants. Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Hank McCoy and Bobby Drake are some of the only mutants who had the courage to come forward to Charles while others stayed in hiding. Charles trains them up as a team to practice for whatever Erik has up his sleeve, while also trying to protect themselves and other mutants from the rest of the world who see mutants as a problem and something to exterminate.
