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
Charles Xavier
for Charles Xavier in The X-Men: Rise and Fall
Suggested by underworld_stories
On their last legs, the final fight for all that is good, there is no hope but they still go on. Iceman, Rogue, Beast, Mystique, Juggernaut, Jean Grey, all dead within a week. Mr. Sinister, Nathaniel Essex has risen, a product of the Mutant Control Agency's interference with the way mutants are created. Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Colossus, Spider-Man, Captain America, and Magneto have to get into Essex tower before they use the Scarlet Witch to turn the population of the Earth into mutants, to show humans they are inferior. They launch a full scale assault on Essex tower as they push their way to the Center Room where Quicksilver and Pyro are waiting for them. Pyro reveals he killed Iceman causing Spider-Man to go after Pyro. Meanwhile the rest turn their attention to Quicksilver knowing he could kill them all instantly. Cyclops and Wolverine sneak off to go face Mr. Sinister while Colossus, Gambit, Captain America, and Magneto take on Quicksilver. The fight is intense and Quicksilver kills Colossus and Captain America but just then Mangeto gets close enough to talk to Quicksilver, Quicksilver reveals he's Magneto's son and Magneto says "I know" and send a metal bar through the back of his head, killing him. Cyclops and Magneto get to the top and see Charles Xavier in a coma, and Scarlet Witch killing Mr. Sinister due to the sudden death of her brother. Cyclops goes to stop her but he's shredded and Mr. Sinister is killed. Scarlet Witch whispers the words "Only Mutants".
