Giancarlo Esposito

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Giancarlo Esposito 2015 at Comic-Con

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958 in Copenhagen , Denmark ) is an American actor .

life and work

His parents are partly of African American , partly of Italian descent. They lived in Europe until they moved to New York . Esposito played minor roles in films and television series from the late 1970s , his first major role alongside Laurence Fishburne in the 1988 film School Daze . In the 1995 film The Usual Suspects , he played alongside Kevin Spacey , Gabriel Byrne , Benicio del Toro and Stephen Baldwin . From 1998 to 1999 he was in the television series Homicide , for which he was nominated for an Image Award in 1999. In the film Big City Blues (1999) he had a bigger role alongside Burt Reynolds , in the fantasy film Monkeybone (2001) alongside Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda , in the thriller Blind Horizon (2003) he played alongside Val Kilmer , in the drama SherryBaby (2006) starring alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal . From 2009 to 2011 he played the criminal businessman and drug lord Gustavo Fring in the AMC television series Breaking Bad . For the role he was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in 2012 . He has played this role since the third season of the spin-off Better Call Saul . For his acting performance, he was nominated for another Emmy in the category Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series in 2019 .

From autumn 2012 to May 2014 Esposito starred as Captain Neville in the mystery series Revolution . In total, his work includes more than 160 film and television productions.

In the video game Payday 2 published in 2013 , Esposito appears several times as "The Dentist" and gives the player several assignments.

In 2008 Esposito made his directorial debut with Gospel Hill . His second film, The Show, followed in 2017 .

Esposito is a member of the Atlantic Theater Ensemble . He has won two Obie Awards for roles in the plays Distant Fires and Zooman and the Sign .

Esposito married Joy McManigal in 1995, from whom he has since divorced. He has four daughters.

He plays the main antagonist Anton Castillo in the video game Far Cry 6 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

Independent Spirit Awards

  • 1995 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Fresh

National Board of Review

  • 1995: Best Acting Company for The Usual Suspects

NAACP Image Awards

  • 1999: Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series - Drama for Homicide
  • 2011: Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series - Drama for Breaking Bad

Saturn Awards

Critics' Choice Television Awards

Emmys

  • 2012 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Breaking Bad
  • 2019 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Better Call Saul

Satellite Awards

  • 2012 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Breaking Bad

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Web links

Commons : Giancarlo Esposito  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steve Heisler: Giancarlo Esposito . In: AV Club . October 7, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Esposito, Giancarlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esposito, Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark