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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
Professor Thorton
for Professor Thorton in Wolverine
Suggested by underworld_stories
Years after volunteering for the Weapon X program, Logan has become a government-sanctioned weapon with no memory of his past. His handler, Colonel Cassius Tomlinson, knows Logan deserves freedom, but Logan willingly entered the program. The film opens with Logan's brutal battle against the Hulk. Wolverine fights well, leaving permanent scars across Hulk's back, but ultimately loses as Hulk grows increasingly enraged. Afterward, Logan is repaired and returned to the Weapon X chamber, where the government prepares to enhance him further. But with the Super Soldier Serum under development, Logan's future as a government asset is uncertain. Then Sabretooth emerges. Victor Creed, Logan's half-brother and former Team X partner, has become an enforcer for the mysterious Omega Red, a weapons trafficker using stolen military technology to prolong wars and sell weapons of mass destruction. Logan doesn't remember Victor, but the government knows their history and believes Logan is the only man capable of stopping him. Their first confrontation nearly ends with Logan winning, but Victor escapes with Cyber, Omega Red's other top operative. Logan and Cassius are sent into northern Canada to dismantle Omega Red's operation, accompanied by three Weapon X offshoots: mutant soldier Lucas Bishop, unstable super-soldier Frank Simpson, and young combat savant Anthony Marston. The mission collapses when Cassius is killed, giving Logan a means to destroy his control chip and escape. Searching for answers, Logan finds John Wraith, a mutant mercenary who remembers him. Wraith reveals that Logan's real name is James Howlett and that Victor is his half-brother. Together, they launch one final assault on Omega Red's compound. Cyber dies, Omega Red escapes, and Logan confronts Victor one last time—but cannot kill him. Victor escapes, while Logan is captured by the government. Before he can be reclaimed by Weapon X, General Thaddeus Ross intervenes. Telling them Logan is his now.
