Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is a Danish-born American actor. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and the prequel series Better Call Saul. He has also appeared in several Spike Lee films, such as School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, and Malcolm X.
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Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is a Danish-born American actor. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and the prequel series Better Call Saul. His other television roles include Federal Agent Mike Giardello in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street, Sidney Glass Magic Mirror in the ABC supernatural drama series Once Upon a Time. He has also appeared in several Spike Lee films, such as School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, and Malcolm X. He made his Broadway debut in 1968 at age eight, playing an enslaved child opposite Shirley Jones in the short-lived musical Maggie Flynn. He also performed in TV shows such as Miami Vice and Spenser: For Hire.
He played J. C. Pierce, a cadet in the 1981 movie Taps. In 2001 he played Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. in Ali, a demonic version of the Greek version of God of Sleep. In 2002 he was cast as a legal eagle in the David E. Kelley television drama Girls Club, which lasted only one season and did not generally garner positive reviews. In 2004 he played Algarin, a Spanish poet, in Piñero, a biopic of Nuyorican poet and friend and collaborator of Miguel Piñera, Miguel Piño, in which he also co-wrote and co-starred. He appeared in the indie films Night on Earth, Fresh and Smoke, as well as its sequel Blue in the Face. In 1997 he played Darryl in Law & Order, New York, The Practice, Undercover, and Fallen Angels: Fear & Fear.
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