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
Erik Lehnsherr
for Erik Lehnsherr in X-men Wrath of Sauron
Suggested by grayfog16
Years ago, a man called Dr. Anderssen hired Karl Lykos' father as a guide to a trip in Tierra del Fuego Henderssen's young daughter disappeared, and it was Karl who found her inside a cave full of pterodactyls. While defending Tanya from mutant pterodactyls, Karl was bitten by one of the creatures. During his recovery, he discovered that he could now drain the life-force of other organisms. Dr. Lykos became a colleague of Professor Charles Xavier, but while Xavier had been looking for mutants to help them, Dr. Lykos secretly wanted to drain their force. When Havok was injured by the Living Monolith, they sought treatment with Dr. Lykos. He absorbed energy from the mutant, and a horrible side-effect happened he transformed into a pterodactyl-like monster.When Sauron got to Dr. Anderssen's apartment in order to kill him and steal Tanya, the X-Men stopped him. he was at her father's old mountain home and went there by herself, only to watch Karl jump off a cliff in order to prevent himself from killing her.At first presumed dead, Karl actually survived, on a ledge below. He journeyed to the Savage Land and survived in human form by only draining energy from animals. He befriended Ka-Zar But when several X-Men were stranded in the Savage Land, Lykos was again overwhelmed with the desire to absorb the powerful life energy of mutants. He transformed into Sauron once againHe reverted back to human form during a battle with the X-Men, and Ka-Zar explained that Lykos was an ally.
