Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito
Esposito in 2024
Born	Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (1958-04-26) April 26, 1958 (age 66) Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Elizabeth Seton College
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1968–present
Spouse	Joy McManigal ​ (divorced)​
Children	4

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒuˈzɛppe alesˈsandro eˈspɔːzito]; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, from 2009 to 2011, as well as in its prequel series Better Call Saul, from 2017 to 2022. For this role, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2012) and 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 Westworld (2016), and starred in the Netflix television series Kaleidoscope (2023) and The Gentlemen (2024).

He is also known for his roles in several Spike Lee 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), The Jungle Book (2016), Okja (2017), and Stargirl (2020).

Early life

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of Giovanni "John" C. Esposito, an Italian stagehand and carpenter from Naples, and Elizabeth "Leesa" Foster, an African American opera and nightclub singer from Alabama.^[1][2][3][4]

When Esposito was six, his family moved to Manhattan.^[5][6] He attended Elizabeth Seton College in New York and earned a two-year degree in radio and television communications.^[6]

Career

Esposito in 1998

Esposito made his Broadway debut in 1968, playing a child opposite Shirley Jones in the short-lived musical Maggie Flynn (1968), set during the New York Draft Riots of 1863.^[7] He was also a member of the youthful cast of the Stephen Sondheim–Harold Prince collaboration Merrily We Roll Along, which closed with 16 performances and 56 previews in 1981.

During the 1980s, Esposito appeared in films such as Maximum Overdrive, King of New York, and Trading Places. 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.^[8]

In 1988, he landed his breakout role as the leader ("Dean Big Brother Almighty") of the black fraternity "Gamma Phi Gamma" in director Spike Lee's film School Daze, exploring color relations at black colleges. Over the next four years, Esposito and Lee collaborated on three other movies: Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, and Malcolm X. During the 1990s, Esposito appeared in the acclaimed indie films Night on Earth, Fresh and Smoke, as well as its sequel Blue in the Face. He also appeared in the mainstream films Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man with Mickey Rourke, Reckless with Mia Farrow, and Waiting to Exhale starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett. In 1996, Esposito was featured in a music video "California" by French superstar Mylène Farmer, directed by Abel Ferrara.

Esposito played FBI agent Mike Giardello on the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. That role drew from both his African American and Italian ancestry. He played this character during the show's seventh and final season, and reprised the role for its 2000 made-for-TV movie. He had another multiracial role as Sergeant Paul Gigante in the television comedy, Bakersfield P.D.

Esposito in 2012

In 1997, Esposito played the film roles of Darryl in Trouble on the Corner and Charlie Dunt in Nothing to Lose. Other TV credits include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Practice, New York Undercover, and Fallen Angels: Fearless.

Esposito has portrayed drug dealers (Fresh, Breaking Bad, King of New York, Better Call Saul, The Gentlemen), policemen (The Usual Suspects, Derailed), political radicals (Bob Roberts, Do the Right Thing), and a demonic version of the Greek god of sleep Hypnos from another dimension (Monkeybone). In 2001, he played Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. in Ali, and Miguel Algarín, friend and collaborator of Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero, in Piñero.

In 2002, Esposito was cast as a legal eagle in the David E. Kelley television drama Girls Club. Although the series only lasted one season, and did not garner generally positive reviews, it represented a personal turning point for Esposito, who relayed to The Washington Post: "I started to play bosses. And I realized, 'Oh, okay, this is an opportunity.' It was really a great opening for me to show who I really was. And it's kept going like that."^[5]

In 2005, Esposito played an unsympathetic detective named Esposito in the film Hate Crime, which centers upon homophobia as a theme.

In 2006, Esposito starred in Last Holiday as Senator Dillings, alongside Queen Latifah and Timothy Hutton. Esposito played Robert Fuentes, a Miami businessman with shady connections, on the UPN television series South Beach. He appeared in New Amsterdam and CSI: Miami. In Feel the Noise (2007), he played ex-musician Roberto, the Puerto Rican father of Omarion Grandberry's character, aspiring rap star "Rob". In 2008, he made his directorial debut with Gospel Hill, serving also as producer and star of the film.

New York theater credits for Esposito include The Me Nobody Knows, Lost in the Stars, Seesaw, and Merrily We Roll Along. In 2008, he appeared on Broadway as Gooper in an African American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Debbie Allen and starring James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, and Terrence Howard.^[9]

From 2009 to 2011, Esposito appeared in seasons 2 through 4 of the AMC drama Breaking Bad, as Gus Fring, the head of a New Mexico-based methamphetamine drug ring. In the fourth season, he was the show's primary antagonist, and won critical acclaim for this role. He won the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama award at the 2012 Critics' Choice Television Awards and was nominated for an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award at the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards, but lost to co-star Aaron Paul.

Esposito appeared in the film Rabbit Hole (2010). He also appeared in the first season of the ABC program Once Upon a Time, which debuted in October 2011. He portrayed the split role of Sidney Glass, a reporter for The Daily Mirror in the town of Storybrooke, Maine, who is really a genie trapped in the Magic Mirror, possessed by The Evil Queen in a parallel fairy tale world. Esposito would periodically reprise the role in later seasons as a guest star.^[10] Esposito appeared in Revolution as Major Tom Neville, a central character who kills Ben Matheson in the pilot. He escorts a captured Danny to the capital Philadelphia of the Monroe Republic.^[11]

Esposito also appeared in Community as a guest star for the episode titled "Digital Estate Planning". He performed again in the fourth season, in the episode titled "Paranormal Parentage".^[12] Esposito has additionally appeared in a video of the action role-playing sci-fi first-person shooter game Destiny. Esposito voices antagonist Faraday in the Netflix anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022). Esposito also voices Antón Castillo, the main antagonist of the video game Far Cry 6, who was modeled after Esposito's appearance. He was also included in the videogame Payday 2, as the supporting character, then antagonist "The Dentist".

Esposito at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con

He has joined the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series. He played Ra's al Ghul in Son of Batman and Eric Needham / Black Spider in Batman: Assault on Arkham. He also had a recurring role in the first season of The Get Down on Netflix. In 2017, Esposito reprised his role as Gus Fring in the Breaking Bad prequel series, Better Call Saul. In 2019, he appeared in the first-season finale of The Boys as Stan Edgar, and reprised the role in the second and third season.^[13]

In 2016, Esposito voiced Akela in the film The Jungle Book, which was directed by Jon Favreau.^[14] Esposito and Favreau would work together once again in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian in which Esposito appears in a starring role, while Favreau acts as an executive producer for the series and as its writer.^[15] He plays the role of New York congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the 2019 Epix series Godfather of Harlem.

Esposito at GalaxyCon Raleigh 2023

In July 2020, Esposito began teasing his role in "a huge video game".^[16] His role was later revealed as the main antagonist of Ubisoft's Far Cry 6, in which he would portray and voice Antón Castillo, the dictatorial ruler of Yara.^[17]

In 2022, Esposito played Taxi Driver in Euphoria, a film installation by Julian Rosefeldt.^[18]

In 2024, he launched his first graphic novel, The Venetian.^[19]

In May 2024, Esposito was cast as Seth Voelker/Sidewinder of the Serpent Society in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Captain America: Brave New World, scheduled to be released on February 14, 2025.^[20] Esposito was added to the film's reshoots.^[21]

Personal life

Esposito was married to Joy McManigal.^[22] They have four daughters. They later divorced.^[23] After his divorce, Esposito had to declare bankruptcy, and he considered suicide by arranging his own murder to provide insurance money for his children before being cast in Breaking Bad.^[24][25][26] He was raised Catholic and considered becoming a priest.^[27]

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Reference(s)
1979	Running	Puerto Rican teenager		[28]
1980	The Changeling	Extra
1981	Taps	Cadet Captain JC Pierce		[28][29]
1983	Trading Places	Cellmate #2		[28][29]
1984	The Brother from Another Planet	Man getting arrested
	The Cotton Club	Bumpy Hood		[28][29]
	Go Tell It on the Mountain	Elisha		[29]
1985	Desperately Seeking Susan	Street vendor		[28][29]
1986	Maximum Overdrive	Videoplayer		[28][29]
1987	Sweet Lorraine	Howie		[28][29][30]
1988	School Daze	Julian		[28][29]
1989	Do the Right Thing	Buggin' Out		[28][29]
1990	King of New York	Lance		[28][29]
	Mo' Better Blues	Left Hand Lacey		[28][29]
1991	Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man	Jimmy Jiles		[28][29]
	Night on Earth	YoYo		[28][29]
1992	Bob Roberts	John Alijah "Bugs" Raplin		[28][29]
	Malcolm X	Thomas Hagan		[28][29]
1993	Amos & Andrew	Reverend Fenton Brunch		[28][29]
	Seven Songs for Malcolm X	Autobiography reading	Voice; documentary	[28][29]
1994	Fresh	Esteban		[28][29]
1995	The Usual Suspects	Jack Baer		[28][29]
	Smoke	OTB Man #1 / Tommy Finelli		[28][29]
	Blue in the Face	Tommy Finelli		[28][29]
	Reckless	Tim Timko		[28][29]
	Waiting to Exhale	David Matthews		[28]
1997	Nothing to Lose	Charlie Dunt		[28][29]
	Loose Women	Stylist #2		[28][29]
	Trouble on the Corner	Darryl		[28][29]
	Big City Blues	Georgie		[28][29]
1998	Twilight	Reuben Escobar		[28][29]
	Phoenix	Louie		[28][29]
	Where's Marlowe?	Blind Man		[28]
2001	Josephine	Spike
	Monkeybone	Hypnos		[28][29]
	Piñero	Miguel Algarín		[28][29]
	Ali	Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.		[28][29]
2003	Ash Tuesday	Karl
	Blind Horizon	JC Reynolds		[28]
2004	Doing Hard Time	Captain Pierce	Direct-to-video	[28]
2005	Hate Crime	Detective Esposito		[28][29]
	Chupacabra: Dark Seas	Dr. Peña	Direct-to-video	[28][29]
	Back in the Day	Benson Copper		[28]
	Carlito's Way: Rise to Power	Little Jeff	Direct-to-video	[28][29]
	Derailed	Detective Franklin Church		[28][29]
2006	Last Holiday	Senator Dillings		[28][29]
	Sherrybaby	Parole Officer Hernandez		[28][29]
	Rain	Ken Arnold		[28]
2007	The Box	Detective Dwayne Burkhalter		[28][29]
	Feel the Noise	Roberto		[28][29]
2008	Gospel Hill	Dr. Palmer	Also director and producer	[28][29]
2010	Rabbit Hole	Auggie		[28][29]
2011	S.W.A.T.: Firefight	Inspector Hollander	Direct-to-video	[28][29]
	Certainty	Father Heery		[28]
2012	Alex Cross	Daramus Holiday		[28][29]
2014	Son of Batman	Ra's al Ghul	Voice	[29][28][31]
	Batman: Assault on Arkham	Eric Needham / Black Spider	Voice	[29][28][31]
	Poker Night	Bernard		[28][29]
2015	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	Jorge		[28][29]
2016	The Pills – Sempre meglio che lavorare	Bangla Boss
	The Jungle Book	Akela	Voice	[29][28][31]
	Money Monster	Captain Marcus Powell		[28][29]
	Brother Nature	Congressman Frank McClaren		[28]
2017	The Show	Mason Washington	Also director and producer	[28]
	Stuck	Lloyd	Also associate producer	[28]
	Okja	Frank Dawson		[28][29]
	Mutafukaz	Mr. K	Voice; English dub	[31]
2018	Maze Runner: The Death Cure	Jorge		[28][29]
2019	Coda	Paul		[28]
	Line of Duty	Tom Volk		[28]
2020	Stargirl	Archie Brubaker		[28]
	Unpregnant	Bob		[28]
2022	Beauty	Beauty's Father		[28]
2023	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Baxter Stockman	Voice	[28][31]
2024	Abigail	Lambert		[28]
	Megalopolis	Frank Cicero
	MaXXXine	Teddy Knight
	Please Don't Feed the Children			[32][33]
2025	Captain America: Brave New World †	Seth Voelker / Sidewinder	Post-production
	The Electric State †	Colonel Marshall Bradbury	Post-production
TBA	The Long Home †	William Tell Oliver	Completed	[29]
	The Prince †	TBA	Filming	[34]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Reference(s)
1981	The Gentleman Bandit	Jamie	Television film	[28][29]
1982	Another World	Willie Armstrong	Episode: "Episode #1.4498"
1982–1983	Guiding Light	Clay Tynan	Regular cast
1982–1984	Sesame Street	Mickey	7 episodes
1984–1985	Miami Vice	Luther / Ricky / Adonis Jackson	3 episodes	[28]
1985	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Kyle	Episode: "The Exchange Student"
	Finnegan Begin Again	Intruder	Television film	[28][29]
1985–1986	American Playhouse	Elisha / Simon Fernandes	2 episodes
1986	Rockabye	Marcus	Television film	[28][29]
	The Equalizer	Jumpin' Jack	Episode: "The Line"
1987	Spenser: For Hire	Ramos	Episode: "On the Night He Was Betrayed"	[28]
	Leg Work	Tyson	Episode: "Blind Trust"
1990	Lifestories	Julio	Episode: "Jerry Forchette"
1993	Relentless: Mind of a Killer	Arthur Sistrunk	Television film	[28][29]
	The American Experience	Dr. Kenneth Clark	Episode: "Simple Justice"	[28]
1993–1994	Bakersfield P.D.	Detective Paul Gigante	17 episodes	[28]
1995	New York Undercover	Adolfo Guzman	3 episodes	[28]
	Fallen Angels	Paris Minton	Episode: "Fearless"
1996	Chicago Hope	Cherchez LaFemme	Episode: "Right to Life"	[28]
	Swift Justice	Andrew Coffin	3 episodes
	Living Single	Jackson Turner	Episode: "Kiss of the Spider Man"	[28]
	The Tomorrow Man	Jonathan Driscoll	Television film	[28]
1996–1998	NYPD Blue	Ferdinand Hollie / Jamaal	2 episodes	[28]
1996–1999	Nash Bridges	Arnold / Gordon Keller / Whip Tyrell	2 episodes
1996–2005	Law & Order	Mr. Baylor / Rodney Fallon	4 episodes	[28]
1997	Five Desperate Hours	Joseph Grange	Television film	[28][29]
1998	The Hunger	Vampire	Episode: "Fly-By-Night"	[28]
	Creature	Lieutenant Thomas Peniston / Werewolf	Miniseries	[28][29]
	Naked City: Justice with a Bullet	Chaz Villanueva	Television film	[28][29]
	Thirst	Dr. Lawrence Carver	Television film	[28][29]
1998–1999	Homicide: Life on the Street	Federal Agent Mike Giardello	22 episodes	[28]
2000	Homicide: The Movie	Officer Mike Giardello	Television film	[28][29]
	Touched by an Angel	Antonio	Episode: "Here I Am"	[28]
2000–2001	The $treet	Tom Divack	12 episodes
2001	Strong Medicine	James 'Junior' Bell	Episode: "Mortality"	[28]
	100 Centre Street	Jacob Lenz	Episode: "Andromeda and the Monster"
2002	The Practice	Ray McMurphy	Episode: "Pro Se"	[28]
	Third Watch	Father Romero	Episode: "The Unforgiven"	[28]
	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Ambassador Theodore Kelefy	Episode: "Immune to Murder"	[28]
	Girls Club	Nicholas Hahn	9 episodes	[28]
2003	The Division	Dr. Pembroke	Episode: "Wish You Were Here"
	Lucky	Lord Marion	Episode: "The Method"	[28]
	Street Time	Jesse Haslim	Episode: "Brothers"
2004	Half & Half	Darrell Washington	Episode: "The Big Employee Benefits Episode"	[28]
	Soul Food	Jules	2 episodes
	5ive Days to Midnight	Tim Sanders	5 episodes	[28][29]
	NYPD 2069	Lieutenant Garner	Pilot
2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Orlando Ramirez	Episode: "Boys Will Be Boys"	[28]
2006	South Beach	Robert Fuentes	8 episodes	[28]
	Ghost Whisperer	Ely Fisher	Episode: "Fury"	[28]
	Bones	Richard Benoit	Episode: "The Man in the Morgue"	[28]
	Dr. Vegas		Episode: "For Love or Money"
	Las Vegas	Reggie Archibald	Episode: "White Christmas"
2006–2008	CSI: Miami	Chief Braga	2 episodes	[28]
2007	Kidnapped	Vance	2 episodes
2008	New Amsterdam	Special Agent James Lawson	Episode: "Legacy"
	Xenophobia	Young	Television film
2009–2013	Breaking Bad	Gus Fring	26 episodes	[28]
2010	Leverage	Alexander Moto	Episode: "The Scheherazade Job"	[28]
	Lie to Me	Beau Hackman	Episode: "Black and White"	[28]
	Detroit 1-8-7	Eddie Henderson	Episode: "Shelter"	[28]
2011	Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior	Gordon Ramirez	Episode: "The Time is Now"	[28]
2011–2017	Once Upon a Time	Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror	14 episodes	[28]
2012	NYC 22	Harvey Williams	2 episodes	[28]
2012–2013	Community	Gilbert Lawson	2 episodes	[28][31]
2012–2014	Revolution	Lieutenant Tom Neville	42 episodes	[28]
2013	Over / Under	Oliver Ohrt	Television film	[28][29]
	Revolution: Enemies of the State	Lieutenant Tom Neville	Television shorts
	Axe Cop	Army Chihuahua	Voice; episode: "Night Mission: Stealing Friends Back"	[28][31]
	Timms Valley	Pruit Normings	Voice; episode: "Pilot"
2014	30 for 30	Narrator	Voice; episode: "Requiem for the Big East"	[28]
2015	Allegiance	Oscar Christoph	7 episodes	[28]
	Drunk History	Andrés Pico	Episode: "Los Angeles"	[28]
2016–2017	The Get Down	Pastor Ramon Cruz	10 episodes	[28]
2017	Rebel	Charles Gold	4 episodes	[28]
2017–2019	Dear White People	Dr. Edward Ruskins / The Narrator	23 episodes	[28]
2017–2022	Better Call Saul	Gus Fring	34 episodes; also director for episode: "Axe and Grind"	[28]
2018	Westworld	El Lazo	Episode: "Reunion"	[28]
	Dallas & Robo	Victor Goldsmith	Voice; 5 episodes	[28]
2019	Jett	Charlie Baudelaire	9 episodes	[28]
	Creepshow	Doc	Episode: "Gray Matter"	[28]
2019–2023	Harley Quinn	Lex Luthor	Voice; 11 episodes	[28][31]
2019–present	Godfather of Harlem	Adam Clayton Powell Jr.	21 episodes	[28]
2019–2023	The Mandalorian	Moff Gideon	9 episodes	[28]
		Gideon's Force clones	Episode: "Chapter 24: The Return"
2019–present	The Boys	Stan Edgar / The Man From Vought	10 episodes	[28][31]
2020	Home Movie: The Princess Bride	The Grandfather	Episode: "Chapter Five: Life Is Pain"
2020–2021	DuckTales	Phantom Blot	Voice; 3 episodes	[31]
2022	The Boys Presents: Diabolical	Stan Edgar / The Man From Vought	Voice; episode: "One Plus One Equals Two"	[28][31]
	Cyberpunk: Edgerunners	Faraday	English dub; 6 episodes	[28][31][35]
2023	Kaleidoscope	Leo Pap / Ray Vernon	Miniseries; 8 episodes	[28]
2024	Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur	Granite	Voice; episode: "The Devil You Know"	[31]
	The Gentlemen	Stanley Johnston	5 episodes
	Parish	Gracián "Gray" Parish	6 episodes; also executive producer	[28][36][37]
TBA	The Residence †	A. B. Wynter	Upcoming series
	Poker Face †	TBA		[38]

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Reference(s)
1968–1969	Maggie Flynn	Andrew	ANTA Theatre, Broadway
1970–1971	The Me Nobody Knows	Understudy	Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway
1972	Lost in the Stars	Alex	Imperial Theatre, Broadway
1973	Seesaw	Julio Gonzalez	Uris Theatre, Broadway
1980–1981	Zooman and the Sign	Zooman	Theater Four, Off-Broadway
1981	Merrily We Roll Along	Valedictorian	Alvin Theatre, Broadway
1984	Do Lord Remember Me		American Palace Theatre, Off-Broadway
1984–1985	Balm in Gilead	Ernesto	Circle Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway
1987–1988	Don't Get God Started	Jack / Silk	Longacre Theatre, Broadway
1991	Distant Fires	Foos	Linda Gross Theater, Off-Broadway
1992			Circle in the Square Downtown, Off-Broadway
1993	The Root	Willie	Linda Gross Theater, Off-Broadway
1994	Trafficking in Broken Hearts	Papo	Linda Gross Theater, Off-Broadway
1995	Sacrilege	Ramon	Belasco Theatre, Broadway
2003	The 24 Hour Plays	Earl	American Airlines Theatre, Broadway
2008	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Gooper	Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway
2012	Storefront Church	Donald Calderon	Linda Gross Theater, Off-Broadway

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Reference(s)
2013	The Law of the Jungle	Father	Destiny video game trailer
2014	Payday 2	"The Dentist" / Dr. Helmann	Likeness and vocal performance
2021	Far Cry 6	"El Presidente" Antón Castillo	Likeness and vocal performance portrayed character in promotional marketing	[31][39]

Other work

Year	Title	Role	Project	Notes	Reference(s)
1986	"Growing Up"	Himself	Music video	Whodini song
1996	"California"	Rich man	Music video	Mylène Farmer song
2017	Better Call Saul: Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training	Gus Fring	Web series	Voice; 10 episodes
2020	Game Changer	Himself	Game show	Episode: "Ham It Up"
2021	Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman	Stan Edgar	Web series	Voice; episode Aug 2021
2022	The Big Lie	Dr. Greco	Podcast series

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1995	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Supporting Male	Fresh	Nominated
	National Board of Review	Best Cast	The Usual Suspects	Won
1999	NAACP Image Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Homicide: Life on the Street	Nominated
2011			Breaking Bad	Nominated
	Saturn Awards	Best Guest Starring Role on Television		Nominated
2012	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Won
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor on Television		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
2013	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor on Television	Revolution	Nominated
2019	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Better Call Saul	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
2020				Nominated
		Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series	The Mandalorian	Nominated
2021	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Better Call Saul	Nominated
	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Best Villain	The Mandalorian	Nominated
	Saturn Awards	Best Guest Starring Role on Television		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
	The Game Awards	Best Performance	Far Cry 6	Nominated
2022	New York Game Awards 2022	Great White Way Award for Best Overall Acting in a Game		Nominated
	Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series, Drama	Better Call Saul	Won
2023	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Won
	NAACP Image Awards[40]	Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series	Better Call Saul (for "Axe and Grind")	Won
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Better Call Saul	Nominated
2024	Saturn Awards[41]	Best Guest Star in a Television Series	The Mandalorian	Nominated
2024	Prize for American-Italian Relations (PAIR)	Arts & Culture		Won[42]

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External links

• Giancarlo Esposito at IMDb
• Giancarlo Esposito at the Internet Broadway Database
• Giancarlo Esposito at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Giancarlo Esposito at the TCM Movie Database