Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

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Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is a Danish-born American actor and director. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC drama series Breaking Bad (2009–2011) and Better Call Saul (2017–present), for which he won a Critics' Choice Television Award and earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

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Giancarlo Esposito was born on Saturday, 26 April 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His full name at birth was Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito. He is best known as an actor. Esposito's country of citizenship (nationality) is American. He is 5' 8" (173 cm) tall with a slim build. He has light brown eyes and black hair (color). His net worth is reported to be $6,000,000 US dollars. Giancarlo Esposito is 67 years old and his zodiac star sign is Taurus.

You can find people similar to Giancarlo Esposito by visiting our lists American people of Campanian descent and Film directors from Copenhagen.

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Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito
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Claim to fame
Do The Right Thing (1989), Fresh (1994), Breaking Bad (2009-2011).
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26 April 1958
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Actor, Producer, Director.
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My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day-even if someone's not paying you to do It. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.
  • Two children, with McManigal, Shayne (b. 1997) and Kale (b. 1998)
  • Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997.
  • Is a member of the Atlantic Theater Ensemble. Atlantic Theater is the theater company started by David Mamet and William H. Macy.
  • Lived in Europe, New York City, and Cleveland until he, his older brother, Vincent, and their parents moved Manhattan when Giancarlo was six. During the boys' teens, the family lived in Elmsford (Westchester County), New York.
  • He is half African-American, half Italian. His mother was an opera singer, and his father was a stagehand/carpenter from Naples, Italy.

Giancarlo Esposito is known for his role in the TV series Better Call Saul (2015) as 1 episode.

He is also known for his role in the TV series The Mandalorian (2019) as Moff Gideon.

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