
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 X-Men: Episode 1
Suggested by underworld_stories

The episode opens in a small house as a young boy who looks to be about 16 walks down a dark hallway and into the living room where he finds himself home alone. He looks around for a bit but then takes out his phone and calls him mother who tells him they left and weren't coming back. The boy asks why but she hangs up and the boy sits on the couch and just cries. We cut to X-Mansion where Professor Charles Xavier and his best friend Eric Lensherr are walking up the stairs and over to Xavier's office to discuss Charles's idea to make a school for mutants who don't have anyone. Eric asks Charles if he really thinks this is smart considering the world hates mutants and would probably shut this down immediately. Charles tells Eric that the world doesn't have to know and they can do it in secret until the world changes their view. Charles goes downstairs and talks with Hank Mccoy a scientist whose mutant ability was unlocked at the age of 22 which gave him incredible strength and now at the age of 36 is helping Charles Xavier start his school. Hank tells Charles that him and Raven Darkholme another friend of Charles found a boy whose family abandoned him because of his abilities. Charles goes up to the boy who tells him his name is Bobby Drake. Charles looks at the boy and starts to see something familiar. The episode ends as Charles takes Bobby to meet the other students Scott Summers, Warren Worthington III, and Jean Grey.