Giancarlo Esposito | |
General Information | |
Gender: | Male |
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Birthday: | April 26, 1958 |
Age: | 63 |
Hometown: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Birthplace: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Nationality: | Italian American African-American |
Social Networks: | Facebook |
Other Information | |
Height: | 5’7½» |
Occupation(s): | Actor |
Education: | Elizabeth Seton College in New York |
Talents: | Acting |
Family & Friends | |
Family: | Giovanni Esposito (father) Elizabeth Foster (mother) Shayne Lyra (daughter) Kale Lyn (daughter) Syrlucia (daughter) Ruby (daughter) |
Relationships: | Joy McManigal (ex-wife) |
Series Information | |
Character: | Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror / The Genie |
First appearance: | The Thing You Love Most |
Last appearance: | The Song in Your Heart |
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Gustavo «Gus» Fring on the AMC shows Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, for which 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.
He is well known for his roles in Spike Lee films, such as Do the Right Thing, School Daze, and Mo’ Better Blues. Other notable films include Fresh, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, The Usual Suspects and King of New York. He has portrayed Sidney Glass/Magic Mirror on ABC’s Once Upon a Time and Major Tom Neville in the NBC series Revolution.
View the Giancarlo Esposito Gallery.
Early life
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, the son of Giovanni Esposito and Elizabeth Foster. His mother was an African-American opera and nightclub singer from Alabama, and his father was an Italian stagehand and carpenter from Naples. Esposito was raised in Europe until the age of six, when his family settled in Manhattan, New York. He attended Elizabeth Seton College in New York and received a two-year degree in radio and television communications.
Career
Esposito made his Broadway debut (1966) at age 8 playing a slave child opposite Shirley Jones in the short-lived musical Maggie Flynn (1968), set during the New York Draft Riots of 1863.
During the 1980s, Esposito appeared in films such as Taps, 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.
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 film Reckless with Mia Farrow, and Waiting to Exhale starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett.
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. Mike’s estranged father, shift lieutenant Al Giardello, is portrayed as subject to racism, something Esposito’s character practiced in School Daze. Another multiracial role was as Sergeant Paul Gigante in the television comedy series, Bakersfield P.D. (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1993–94).
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), 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 2006 Esposito starred in Last Holiday as Senator Dillings, alongside Queen Latifah and Timothy Hutton. Also in 2006, he played an unsympathetic detective named Esposito in the 2005 film, Hate Crime. The film explores homophobia.
Esposito played Robert Fuentes, a Miami businessman with shady connections, on the UPN television series South Beach. He has 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».
He made his directorial debut with Gospel Hill (2008); he also produced the film and starred in it.
New York theatre 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.
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. He received 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.
He appeared in the film Rabbit Hole (2010).
Esposito 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, a reporter for The Daily Mirror in the town of Storybrooke, Maine, who is the Magic Mirror, possessed by The Evil Queen in a parallel fairy tale world.
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.
Esposito also appeared in Community as a guest star for the episode entitled «Digital Estate Planning». He performed again in the fourth season, in the episode titled «Paranormal Parentage».Esposito has additionally appeared in a video of the action role-playing sci-fi first-person shooter game Destiny, as well as plays The Dentist, a non-playable story character, in the game Payday 2.
He has joined the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series. He played Ra’s al Ghul in Son of Batman and Black Spider in Batman: Assault on Arkham. He 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 the show’s second season, an anagram of the first letters of every episode name spelled out «FRING’S BACK», which was revealed to be intentional by showrunners Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Esposito appeared in a teaser for the third season portraying Gus as the Los Pollos Hermanos owner, officially confirming Esposito’s involvement in season 3.
Personal life
Esposito married Joy McManigal in 1995; they later divorced. He has four daughters.
Filmography
Year | Title | Type | Role |
1970 | Et Salammbo? | Short | |
1979 | Running | Puerto Rican Teenager | |
1979 | Tutti a squola | ||
1980 | The Changeling | Extra (uncredited) | |
1981 | The Gentleman Bandit | TV Movie | Jamie |
1981 | Taps | J.C. Pierce | |
1982 | Another World | TV Series | Willie Armstrong |
1982-1983 | Guiding Light | TV Series | Clay Tynan |
1982 — 1984 | Sesame Street | TV Series | Mickey |
1983 | Trading Places | Cellmate #2 | |
1983 | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Julio | |
1984 | The Brother from Another Planet | Man Being Arrested (uncredited) | |
1984 | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Hood | |
1984 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Elisha | |
1984 — 1985 | Miami Vice | TV Series | Adonis Jackson / Ricky / Luther |
1985 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | TV Series | Kyle |
1985 | Finnegan Begin Again | TV Movie | Intruder |
1985 | Desperately Seeking Susan | Street Vendor | |
1985 — 1986 | American Playhouse | TV Series | Simon Fernandes / Elisha |
1986 | Rockabye | TV Movie | Marcus |
1986 | Maximum Overdrive | Videoplayer | |
1986 | The Equalizer | TV Series | Jumpin’ Jack |
1987 | Sweet Lorraine | Howie | |
1987 | Heartbeat | Video | Gang Member #1 |
1987 | Spenser: For Hire | TV Series | Ramos |
1987 | Leg Work | TV Series | Tyson |
1988 | School Daze | Julian ‘Big Brother Almighty’ Eaves | |
1989 | Do the Right Thing | Buggin Out | |
1990 | King of New York | Lance | |
1990 | Mo’ Better Blues | Left Hand Lacey (Piano) | |
1990 | Lifestories | TV Series | Julio |
1991 | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | Jimmy Jiles | |
1991 | Night on Earth | YoYo (segment «New York») | |
1992 | Bob Roberts | Bugs Raplin | |
1992 | Malcolm X | Thomas Hayer | |
1993 | Relentless: Mind of a Killer | TV Movie | Arthur Sistrunk |
1993 | American Experience | TV Series documentary | Dr. Kenneth Clark |
1993 | Amos & Andrew | Reverend Fenton Brunch | |
1993 | Seven Songs for Malcolm X | Documentary | Autobiography Reading (voice) |
1993 — 1994 | Bakersfield P.D. | TV Series | Detective Paul Gigante |
1994 | Fresh | Esteban | |
1994 | Benders | Jack | |
1995 | The Usual Suspects | Jack Baer | |
1995 | Smoke | OTB Man #1, Tommy | |
1995 | Blue in the Face | Tommy Finelli | |
1995 | Reckless | Host Tim Timko | |
1995 | The Keeper | Paul Lamont | |
1995 | New York Undercover | TV Series | Adolfo Guzman |
1995 | Fallen Angels | TV Series | Paris Minton |
1995 | Waiting to Exhale | David Matthews (uncredited) | |
1995 | Klash | Stoney | |
1996 | Chicago Hope | TV Series | Cherchez LaFemme |
1996 | Mylène Farmer: California | Video short | Rich Man / Pimp |
1996 | Swift Justice | TV Series | Andrew Coffin |
1996 | Living Single | TV Series | Jackson Turner |
1996 | The Tomorrow Man | TV Movie | Jonathan Driscoll |
1996 — 1998 | NYPD Blue | TV Series | Jamaal / Ferdinand Hollie |
1996 — 1999 | Nash Bridges | TV Series | Arnold / Gordon Keller / Whip Tyrell |
1996 — 2005 | Law & Order | TV Series | Rodney Fallon / Mr. Baylor |
1997 | Nothing to Lose | Charlie Dunt | |
1997 | Loose Women | Stylist #2 | |
1997 | Five Desperate Hours | TV Movie | Joseph Grange |
1997 | Trouble on the Corner | Darryl | |
1997 | Big City Blues | Georgie | |
1997 | The People | Anthony Rivera | |
1997 | The Maze | Henry Kunitz | |
1998 | The Hunger | TV Series | Vampire |
1998 | Twilight | Reuben Escobar | |
1998 | Creature | TV Mini-Series | Lt. Thomas Peniston / Werewolf |
1998 | Phoenix | Louie | |
1998 | Lulu on the Bridge | Black (DVD deleted scene) (uncredited) | |
1998 | Where’s Marlowe? | Blind Man (uncredited) | |
1998 | Naked City: Justice with a Bullet | TV Movie | Chaz Villanueva |
1998 | Thirst | TV Movie | Dr. Lawrence Carver |
1998 | Stardust | Mr. Peavey | |
1998 — 1999 | Homicide: Life on the Street | TV Series | Mike Giardello |
2000 | Homicide: The Movie | TV Movie | Officer Mike Giardello |
2000 | Touched by an Angel | TV Series | Antonio Gaudi |
2000 | Josephine | Spike | |
2000 — 2001 | The $treet | TV Series | Tom Divack |
2001 | Monkeybone | Hypnos | |
2001 | Strong Medicine | TV Series | James ‘Junior’ Bell |
2001 | Piñero | Miguel Algarin | |
2001 | Ali | Cassius Clay, Sr. | |
2001 | 100 Centre Street | TV Series | Jacob Lenz |
2002 | The Practice | TV Series | Ray McMurphy |
2002 | Third Watch | TV Series | Father Romero |
2002 | A Nero Wolfe Mystery | TV Series | Ambassador Theodore Kelefy |
2002 | Girls Club | TV Series | Nicholas Hahn |
2003 | Ash Tuesday | Karl | |
2003 | The Division | TV Series | Dr. Pembroke |
2003 | Lucky | TV Series | Lord Marion |
2003 | Street Time | TV Series | Jesse Haslim |
2003 | Blind Horizon | J.C. Reynolds | |
2004 | Noise | Hank | |
2004 | Half & Half | TV Series | Darrell Washington |
2004 | Soul Food | TV Series | Jules |
2004 | 5ive Days to Midnight | TV Mini-Series | Tim Sanders |
2004 | Doing Hard Time | Video | Captain Pierce |
2004 | A Killer Within | Vargas | |
2004 | NYPD 2069 | TV Movie | Lt. Garner |
2005 | Hate Crime | Detective Esposito | |
2005 | Chupacabra Terror | Video | Dr. Peña |
2005 | I Will Avenge You, Iago! | Director | |
2005 | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | TV Series | Orlando Ramirez |
2005 | Back in the Day | Benson Cooper | |
2005 | Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power | Video | Little Jeff |
2005 | Derailed | Detective Church | |
2006 | Last Holiday | Senator Dillings | |
2006 | Sherrybaby | Parole Officer Hernandez | |
2006 | South Beach | TV Series | Robert Fuentes |
2006 | Ghost Whisperer | TV Series | Ely Fisher |
2006 | Bones | TV Series | Richard Benoit |
2006 | Rain | Ken Arnold | |
2006 | Dr. Vegas | TV Series | |
2006 | Las Vegas | TV Series | Reggie Archibald |
2006 — 2008 | CSI: Miami | TV Series | Chief Braga |
2007 | Kidnapped | TV Series | Vance |
2007 | Racing Daylight | Fred / Drifter | |
2007 | The Box | Det. Dwayne Burkhalter | |
2007 | Feel the Noise | Roberto | |
2007 | Mano | Short | Nino |
2008 | New Amsterdam | TV Series | Special Agent James Lawson |
2008 | Gospel Hill | Dr. Palmer | |
2008 | Xenophobia | TV Movie | Young |
2009 — 2011 | Breaking Bad | TV Series | Gustavo ‘Gus’ Fring |
2010 | Leverage | TV Series | Alexander Moto |
2010 | Rabbit Hole | Auggie | |
2010 | Lie to Me | TV Series | Beau Hackman |
2010 | Detroit 1-8-7 | TV Series | Eddie Henderson |
2011 | S.W.A.T.: Firefight | Video | Inspector Hollander |
2011 | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior | TV Series | Gordon Ramirez |
2011 | Dreaming American | Short | Daytona LeMans |
2011 | Certainty | Father Heery | |
2011 — 2017 | Once Upon a Time | TV Series | Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror / The Genie |
2012 | NYC 22 | TV Series | Harvey Williams |
2012 | Alex Cross | Daramus Holiday | |
2012 — 2013 | Community | TV Series | Gilbert Lawson |
2012 — 2014 | Revolution | TV Series | Tom Neville |
2013 | Over/Under | TV Movie | Oliver Ohrt |
2013 | Revolution: Enemies of the State | TV Mini-Series | Lt. Tom Neville |
2013 | Axe Cop | TV Series | Army Chihuahua |
2013 | Payday 2 | Video Game | The Dentist (voice) |
2013 | They Die by Dawn | Isom Dart | |
2013 | Timms Valley | TV Series | Pruit Normings |
2014 | 30 for 30 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
2014 | Son of Batman | Video | Ra’s al Ghul (voice) |
2014 | Batman: Assault on Arkham | Video | Black Spider (voice) |
2014 | Poker Night | Bernard | |
2015 | Allegiance | TV Series | Oscar Christoph |
2015 | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | Jorge | |
2015 | Drunk History | TV Series | Andrés Pico |
2015 | I Did Not Forget You | Short | Dr. Sabian |
2016 | The Pills: Sempre meglio che lavorare | il Boss | |
2016 | The Jungle Book | Akela (voice) | |
2016 | Money Monster | Captain Powell | |
2016 | Brother Nature | Congressman Frank McClaren | |
2016 — 2017 | The Get Down | TV Series | Pastor Ramon Cruz |
2017 | The Show | Mason Washington | |
2017 | Stuck | Lloyd | |
2017 | Rebel | TV Series | Charles Gold |
2017 | Okja | Frank Dawson | |
2017 | Better Call Saul: Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training | TV Mini-Series | Gus Fring |
2017 | MFKZ | Mr. K (English version, voice) | |
2017 — 2019 | Dear White People | TV Series | Narrator |
2017 — 2020 | Better Call Saul | TV Series | Gustavo ‘Gus’ Fring |
2018 | Maze Runner: The Death Cure | Jorge | |
2018 | Westworld | TV Series | El Lazo |
2018 | Dallas & Robo | TV Series | Victor Goldsmith |
2019 | The Boys | TV Series | Stan Edgar |
2019 | Jett | TV Series | Charlie Baudelaire |
2019 | Creepshow | TV Series | Doc (segment «Gray Matter») |
2019 | Line of Duty | Volk | |
2019 | Coda | Paul | |
2019 | Godfather of Harlem | TV Series | Congressman Powell |
2019 | The Mandalorian | TV Series | Moff Gideon |
2019 | The Long Home | ||
2019 — 2020 | Harley Quinn | TV Series | Lex Luthor |
2020 | Stargirl (post-production) | Archie Brubaker | |
2020 | Da 5 Bloods (post-production) |
Trivia
- His mother was an American opera singer and his father was a stagehand and carpenter from Naples, Italy.
- His mother was doing a nightclub gig on a split bill with Josephine Baker in Copenhagen, Denmark, around the time he was born.
- Lived in Europe, New York City, and Cleveland until he; his older brother, Vincent; and their parents moved to Manhattan when Giancarlo was six. During the boys’ teens, the family lived in Elmsford in Westchester County, New York.
- Is a member of the Atlantic Theater Ensemble, the theater company started by David Mamet and William H. Macy.
- Won Obie Awards for his performances in «Zooman and the Sign» (1981) and «Distant Fires» (1993).
- Was a member of the dramatic jury at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.
- Was one of the chorus of children who sang the theme song of The Electric Company (1971).
- Is a supporter of Mumia Abu Jamal and participated in the 2012 documentary Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2012).
- Giancarlo Esposito and Aaron Paul appeared together many years before Breaking Bad (2008) on Ghost Whisperer: Fury (2006).
- He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6351 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, on April 26, 2014.
- Fluent in Italian and Spanish.
- For a while in New York City, he was a roommate of Laurence Fishburne.
- He played a slave child when he was eight — it was his fist exposure to the entertainment industry.
- He was a guest star in the NBC cult sitcom Community as the half-brother of Chevy Chase’s character Pierce Hawthorne.
- He married Joy McManigal in 1995. He has four daughters named Syrlucia, Kale Lyn, Shayne Lyra, and Ruby Esposito.
- He acted alongside Nicole Kidman in the 2010 film Rabbit Hole.
Giancarlo Esposito | |
General Information | |
Gender: | Male |
---|---|
Birthday: | April 26, 1958 |
Age: | 63 |
Hometown: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Birthplace: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Nationality: | Italian American African-American |
Social Networks: | Facebook |
Other Information | |
Height: | 5’7½» |
Occupation(s): | Actor |
Education: | Elizabeth Seton College in New York |
Talents: | Acting |
Family & Friends | |
Family: | Giovanni Esposito (father) Elizabeth Foster (mother) Shayne Lyra (daughter) Kale Lyn (daughter) Syrlucia (daughter) Ruby (daughter) |
Relationships: | Joy McManigal (ex-wife) |
Series Information | |
Character: | Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror / The Genie |
First appearance: | The Thing You Love Most |
Last appearance: | The Song in Your Heart |
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Gustavo «Gus» Fring on the AMC shows Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, for which 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.
He is well known for his roles in Spike Lee films, such as Do the Right Thing, School Daze, and Mo’ Better Blues. Other notable films include Fresh, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, The Usual Suspects and King of New York. He has portrayed Sidney Glass/Magic Mirror on ABC’s Once Upon a Time and Major Tom Neville in the NBC series Revolution.
View the Giancarlo Esposito Gallery.
Early life
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, the son of Giovanni Esposito and Elizabeth Foster. His mother was an African-American opera and nightclub singer from Alabama, and his father was an Italian stagehand and carpenter from Naples. Esposito was raised in Europe until the age of six, when his family settled in Manhattan, New York. He attended Elizabeth Seton College in New York and received a two-year degree in radio and television communications.
Career
Esposito made his Broadway debut (1966) at age 8 playing a slave child opposite Shirley Jones in the short-lived musical Maggie Flynn (1968), set during the New York Draft Riots of 1863.
During the 1980s, Esposito appeared in films such as Taps, 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.
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 film Reckless with Mia Farrow, and Waiting to Exhale starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett.
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. Mike’s estranged father, shift lieutenant Al Giardello, is portrayed as subject to racism, something Esposito’s character practiced in School Daze. Another multiracial role was as Sergeant Paul Gigante in the television comedy series, Bakersfield P.D. (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1993–94).
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), 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 2006 Esposito starred in Last Holiday as Senator Dillings, alongside Queen Latifah and Timothy Hutton. Also in 2006, he played an unsympathetic detective named Esposito in the 2005 film, Hate Crime. The film explores homophobia.
Esposito played Robert Fuentes, a Miami businessman with shady connections, on the UPN television series South Beach. He has 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».
He made his directorial debut with Gospel Hill (2008); he also produced the film and starred in it.
New York theatre 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.
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. He received 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.
He appeared in the film Rabbit Hole (2010).
Esposito 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, a reporter for The Daily Mirror in the town of Storybrooke, Maine, who is the Magic Mirror, possessed by The Evil Queen in a parallel fairy tale world.
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.
Esposito also appeared in Community as a guest star for the episode entitled «Digital Estate Planning». He performed again in the fourth season, in the episode titled «Paranormal Parentage».Esposito has additionally appeared in a video of the action role-playing sci-fi first-person shooter game Destiny, as well as plays The Dentist, a non-playable story character, in the game Payday 2.
He has joined the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series. He played Ra’s al Ghul in Son of Batman and Black Spider in Batman: Assault on Arkham. He 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 the show’s second season, an anagram of the first letters of every episode name spelled out «FRING’S BACK», which was revealed to be intentional by showrunners Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Esposito appeared in a teaser for the third season portraying Gus as the Los Pollos Hermanos owner, officially confirming Esposito’s involvement in season 3.
Personal life
Esposito married Joy McManigal in 1995; they later divorced. He has four daughters.
Filmography
Year | Title | Type | Role |
1970 | Et Salammbo? | Short | |
1979 | Running | Puerto Rican Teenager | |
1979 | Tutti a squola | ||
1980 | The Changeling | Extra (uncredited) | |
1981 | The Gentleman Bandit | TV Movie | Jamie |
1981 | Taps | J.C. Pierce | |
1982 | Another World | TV Series | Willie Armstrong |
1982-1983 | Guiding Light | TV Series | Clay Tynan |
1982 — 1984 | Sesame Street | TV Series | Mickey |
1983 | Trading Places | Cellmate #2 | |
1983 | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Julio | |
1984 | The Brother from Another Planet | Man Being Arrested (uncredited) | |
1984 | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Hood | |
1984 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Elisha | |
1984 — 1985 | Miami Vice | TV Series | Adonis Jackson / Ricky / Luther |
1985 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | TV Series | Kyle |
1985 | Finnegan Begin Again | TV Movie | Intruder |
1985 | Desperately Seeking Susan | Street Vendor | |
1985 — 1986 | American Playhouse | TV Series | Simon Fernandes / Elisha |
1986 | Rockabye | TV Movie | Marcus |
1986 | Maximum Overdrive | Videoplayer | |
1986 | The Equalizer | TV Series | Jumpin’ Jack |
1987 | Sweet Lorraine | Howie | |
1987 | Heartbeat | Video | Gang Member #1 |
1987 | Spenser: For Hire | TV Series | Ramos |
1987 | Leg Work | TV Series | Tyson |
1988 | School Daze | Julian ‘Big Brother Almighty’ Eaves | |
1989 | Do the Right Thing | Buggin Out | |
1990 | King of New York | Lance | |
1990 | Mo’ Better Blues | Left Hand Lacey (Piano) | |
1990 | Lifestories | TV Series | Julio |
1991 | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | Jimmy Jiles | |
1991 | Night on Earth | YoYo (segment «New York») | |
1992 | Bob Roberts | Bugs Raplin | |
1992 | Malcolm X | Thomas Hayer | |
1993 | Relentless: Mind of a Killer | TV Movie | Arthur Sistrunk |
1993 | American Experience | TV Series documentary | Dr. Kenneth Clark |
1993 | Amos & Andrew | Reverend Fenton Brunch | |
1993 | Seven Songs for Malcolm X | Documentary | Autobiography Reading (voice) |
1993 — 1994 | Bakersfield P.D. | TV Series | Detective Paul Gigante |
1994 | Fresh | Esteban | |
1994 | Benders | Jack | |
1995 | The Usual Suspects | Jack Baer | |
1995 | Smoke | OTB Man #1, Tommy | |
1995 | Blue in the Face | Tommy Finelli | |
1995 | Reckless | Host Tim Timko | |
1995 | The Keeper | Paul Lamont | |
1995 | New York Undercover | TV Series | Adolfo Guzman |
1995 | Fallen Angels | TV Series | Paris Minton |
1995 | Waiting to Exhale | David Matthews (uncredited) | |
1995 | Klash | Stoney | |
1996 | Chicago Hope | TV Series | Cherchez LaFemme |
1996 | Mylène Farmer: California | Video short | Rich Man / Pimp |
1996 | Swift Justice | TV Series | Andrew Coffin |
1996 | Living Single | TV Series | Jackson Turner |
1996 | The Tomorrow Man | TV Movie | Jonathan Driscoll |
1996 — 1998 | NYPD Blue | TV Series | Jamaal / Ferdinand Hollie |
1996 — 1999 | Nash Bridges | TV Series | Arnold / Gordon Keller / Whip Tyrell |
1996 — 2005 | Law & Order | TV Series | Rodney Fallon / Mr. Baylor |
1997 | Nothing to Lose | Charlie Dunt | |
1997 | Loose Women | Stylist #2 | |
1997 | Five Desperate Hours | TV Movie | Joseph Grange |
1997 | Trouble on the Corner | Darryl | |
1997 | Big City Blues | Georgie | |
1997 | The People | Anthony Rivera | |
1997 | The Maze | Henry Kunitz | |
1998 | The Hunger | TV Series | Vampire |
1998 | Twilight | Reuben Escobar | |
1998 | Creature | TV Mini-Series | Lt. Thomas Peniston / Werewolf |
1998 | Phoenix | Louie | |
1998 | Lulu on the Bridge | Black (DVD deleted scene) (uncredited) | |
1998 | Where’s Marlowe? | Blind Man (uncredited) | |
1998 | Naked City: Justice with a Bullet | TV Movie | Chaz Villanueva |
1998 | Thirst | TV Movie | Dr. Lawrence Carver |
1998 | Stardust | Mr. Peavey | |
1998 — 1999 | Homicide: Life on the Street | TV Series | Mike Giardello |
2000 | Homicide: The Movie | TV Movie | Officer Mike Giardello |
2000 | Touched by an Angel | TV Series | Antonio Gaudi |
2000 | Josephine | Spike | |
2000 — 2001 | The $treet | TV Series | Tom Divack |
2001 | Monkeybone | Hypnos | |
2001 | Strong Medicine | TV Series | James ‘Junior’ Bell |
2001 | Piñero | Miguel Algarin | |
2001 | Ali | Cassius Clay, Sr. | |
2001 | 100 Centre Street | TV Series | Jacob Lenz |
2002 | The Practice | TV Series | Ray McMurphy |
2002 | Third Watch | TV Series | Father Romero |
2002 | A Nero Wolfe Mystery | TV Series | Ambassador Theodore Kelefy |
2002 | Girls Club | TV Series | Nicholas Hahn |
2003 | Ash Tuesday | Karl | |
2003 | The Division | TV Series | Dr. Pembroke |
2003 | Lucky | TV Series | Lord Marion |
2003 | Street Time | TV Series | Jesse Haslim |
2003 | Blind Horizon | J.C. Reynolds | |
2004 | Noise | Hank | |
2004 | Half & Half | TV Series | Darrell Washington |
2004 | Soul Food | TV Series | Jules |
2004 | 5ive Days to Midnight | TV Mini-Series | Tim Sanders |
2004 | Doing Hard Time | Video | Captain Pierce |
2004 | A Killer Within | Vargas | |
2004 | NYPD 2069 | TV Movie | Lt. Garner |
2005 | Hate Crime | Detective Esposito | |
2005 | Chupacabra Terror | Video | Dr. Peña |
2005 | I Will Avenge You, Iago! | Director | |
2005 | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | TV Series | Orlando Ramirez |
2005 | Back in the Day | Benson Cooper | |
2005 | Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power | Video | Little Jeff |
2005 | Derailed | Detective Church | |
2006 | Last Holiday | Senator Dillings | |
2006 | Sherrybaby | Parole Officer Hernandez | |
2006 | South Beach | TV Series | Robert Fuentes |
2006 | Ghost Whisperer | TV Series | Ely Fisher |
2006 | Bones | TV Series | Richard Benoit |
2006 | Rain | Ken Arnold | |
2006 | Dr. Vegas | TV Series | |
2006 | Las Vegas | TV Series | Reggie Archibald |
2006 — 2008 | CSI: Miami | TV Series | Chief Braga |
2007 | Kidnapped | TV Series | Vance |
2007 | Racing Daylight | Fred / Drifter | |
2007 | The Box | Det. Dwayne Burkhalter | |
2007 | Feel the Noise | Roberto | |
2007 | Mano | Short | Nino |
2008 | New Amsterdam | TV Series | Special Agent James Lawson |
2008 | Gospel Hill | Dr. Palmer | |
2008 | Xenophobia | TV Movie | Young |
2009 — 2011 | Breaking Bad | TV Series | Gustavo ‘Gus’ Fring |
2010 | Leverage | TV Series | Alexander Moto |
2010 | Rabbit Hole | Auggie | |
2010 | Lie to Me | TV Series | Beau Hackman |
2010 | Detroit 1-8-7 | TV Series | Eddie Henderson |
2011 | S.W.A.T.: Firefight | Video | Inspector Hollander |
2011 | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior | TV Series | Gordon Ramirez |
2011 | Dreaming American | Short | Daytona LeMans |
2011 | Certainty | Father Heery | |
2011 — 2017 | Once Upon a Time | TV Series | Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror / The Genie |
2012 | NYC 22 | TV Series | Harvey Williams |
2012 | Alex Cross | Daramus Holiday | |
2012 — 2013 | Community | TV Series | Gilbert Lawson |
2012 — 2014 | Revolution | TV Series | Tom Neville |
2013 | Over/Under | TV Movie | Oliver Ohrt |
2013 | Revolution: Enemies of the State | TV Mini-Series | Lt. Tom Neville |
2013 | Axe Cop | TV Series | Army Chihuahua |
2013 | Payday 2 | Video Game | The Dentist (voice) |
2013 | They Die by Dawn | Isom Dart | |
2013 | Timms Valley | TV Series | Pruit Normings |
2014 | 30 for 30 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
2014 | Son of Batman | Video | Ra’s al Ghul (voice) |
2014 | Batman: Assault on Arkham | Video | Black Spider (voice) |
2014 | Poker Night | Bernard | |
2015 | Allegiance | TV Series | Oscar Christoph |
2015 | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | Jorge | |
2015 | Drunk History | TV Series | Andrés Pico |
2015 | I Did Not Forget You | Short | Dr. Sabian |
2016 | The Pills: Sempre meglio che lavorare | il Boss | |
2016 | The Jungle Book | Akela (voice) | |
2016 | Money Monster | Captain Powell | |
2016 | Brother Nature | Congressman Frank McClaren | |
2016 — 2017 | The Get Down | TV Series | Pastor Ramon Cruz |
2017 | The Show | Mason Washington | |
2017 | Stuck | Lloyd | |
2017 | Rebel | TV Series | Charles Gold |
2017 | Okja | Frank Dawson | |
2017 | Better Call Saul: Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training | TV Mini-Series | Gus Fring |
2017 | MFKZ | Mr. K (English version, voice) | |
2017 — 2019 | Dear White People | TV Series | Narrator |
2017 — 2020 | Better Call Saul | TV Series | Gustavo ‘Gus’ Fring |
2018 | Maze Runner: The Death Cure | Jorge | |
2018 | Westworld | TV Series | El Lazo |
2018 | Dallas & Robo | TV Series | Victor Goldsmith |
2019 | The Boys | TV Series | Stan Edgar |
2019 | Jett | TV Series | Charlie Baudelaire |
2019 | Creepshow | TV Series | Doc (segment «Gray Matter») |
2019 | Line of Duty | Volk | |
2019 | Coda | Paul | |
2019 | Godfather of Harlem | TV Series | Congressman Powell |
2019 | The Mandalorian | TV Series | Moff Gideon |
2019 | The Long Home | ||
2019 — 2020 | Harley Quinn | TV Series | Lex Luthor |
2020 | Stargirl (post-production) | Archie Brubaker | |
2020 | Da 5 Bloods (post-production) |
Trivia
- His mother was an American opera singer and his father was a stagehand and carpenter from Naples, Italy.
- His mother was doing a nightclub gig on a split bill with Josephine Baker in Copenhagen, Denmark, around the time he was born.
- Lived in Europe, New York City, and Cleveland until he; his older brother, Vincent; and their parents moved to Manhattan when Giancarlo was six. During the boys’ teens, the family lived in Elmsford in Westchester County, New York.
- Is a member of the Atlantic Theater Ensemble, the theater company started by David Mamet and William H. Macy.
- Won Obie Awards for his performances in «Zooman and the Sign» (1981) and «Distant Fires» (1993).
- Was a member of the dramatic jury at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.
- Was one of the chorus of children who sang the theme song of The Electric Company (1971).
- Is a supporter of Mumia Abu Jamal and participated in the 2012 documentary Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2012).
- Giancarlo Esposito and Aaron Paul appeared together many years before Breaking Bad (2008) on Ghost Whisperer: Fury (2006).
- He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6351 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, on April 26, 2014.
- Fluent in Italian and Spanish.
- For a while in New York City, he was a roommate of Laurence Fishburne.
- He played a slave child when he was eight — it was his fist exposure to the entertainment industry.
- He was a guest star in the NBC cult sitcom Community as the half-brother of Chevy Chase’s character Pierce Hawthorne.
- He married Joy McManigal in 1995. He has four daughters named Syrlucia, Kale Lyn, Shayne Lyra, and Ruby Esposito.
- He acted alongside Nicole Kidman in the 2010 film Rabbit Hole.
Полное имя: Джанкарло Джузеппе Алессандро Эспозито
Дата рождения: 26 апреля 1958 г. (возраст — 64 года)
Знак зодиака: Телец
Место рождения: Копенгаген, Дания
Рост: 171 см
Вес: 76 кг
Семейное положение: в разводе
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- Жена и дети Джанкарло Эспозито
- Джанкарло Эспозито: фильмография (полнометражные фильмы)
Джанкарло Эспозито: фотографии из Инстaграма
Джанкарло Эспозито – американский актер и режиссер, наиболее известный по роли Густаво Фринга в культовом сериале «Во все тяжкие».
Биография
Джанкарло Джузеппе Алессандро Эспозито родился 26 апреля 1958 года в городе Копенгаген, Дания. Отец Джанкарло, Джованни Эспозито, – итальянский рабочий сцены и столяр из Неаполя, а мать, Элизабет Фостер, – афроамериканская оперная и клубная певица из Алабамы.
На фото: Джанкарло Эспозито в молодости
Джанкарло рос в Дании, а когда ему исполнилось 6 лет, его семья переехала в Манхеттен, Нью-Йорк. Эспозито учился в Колледже Элизабет Сетон в Нью-Йорке. Там он получил степень по радио- и телекоммуникациям.
В 8 лет Джанкарло впервые сыграл на бродвейской сцене: он исполнил роль ребенка-раба в мюзикле «Мэгги Флинн», в котором также приняла участие Ширли Джонс.
В фильме «Школьные годы чудесные»
В 1988 году Эспозито получил роль лидера афроамериканского сообщества «Gamma Phi Gamma» в музыкальной комедии режиссера Спайка Ли «Школьные годы чудесные». Джанкарло также снялся в таких фильмах Ли как «Делай как надо!» (1989), «Блюз о лучшей жизни» (1990), «Малкольм Икс» (1992).
В фильме «Делай как надо!»
Эспозито выступил режиссером и продюсером драмы «Госпел Хилл» (2008). Актер также снялся в картине в роли доктора Палмер.
В 2015 году Джанкарло снялся в роли Хорхе во второй части молодежной саги «Бегущий в лабиринте: Испытание огнем». А в 2017 году актер снова исполнил эту роль в третьей части серии «Бегущий в лабиринте: Лекарство от смерти».
На фото: Эспозито в фильме «Мир Дикого Запада»
В 2017 году Эспозито вновь исполнил роль Гуса Фринга в приквеле сериала «Во все тяжкие» «Лучше звоните Солу». Во втором сезоне телесериала название каждого эпизода представляло анаграмму слов «FRING’S BACK» («Фринг возвращается»).
«Лучше звоните Солу»
Это был намеренный ход исполнительных продюсеров сериала Винса Гиллигана и Питера Гулда. Затем Эспозито появился в трейлере третьего сезона «Лучше звоните Солу» в роли владельца закусочной «Los Pollos Hermanos» Гуса, тем самым официально подтвердив свое участие в сериале.
Личная жизнь Джанкарло Эспозито
Джанкарло Эспозито восхищается актером Бертом Ланкастером, Матерью Терезой и Далай Ламой.
Актер любит кататься на мотоциклах и играть на саксофоне.
На фото: Эспозито с женой
Эспозито является членом «Творческой коалиции» – организации, борющейся за свободу слова.
Жена и дети Джанкарло Эспозито
В 1995 году Джанкарло Эспозито женился на Джой МакМанигал. У пары четыре дочери: Кейл Лин, Раби, Шейн Лира и Сирлючиа. Эспозито и МакМанигал были вместе больше 20 лет, но не так давно приняли решение развестись.
Джанкарло с детьми
«Госпел Хилл» был тепло принят критиками и получил «Приз жюри» на Международном кинофестивале в Форт-Лодердейле, а также Премию Розетты Миллер-Перри на кинофестивале в Нэшвилле.
«Госпел Хилл»
С 2009 по 2011 год Джанкарло снимался в криминальном драматическом сериале телеканала AMC «Во все тяжкие». Он исполнил роль Густаво «Гуса» Фринга, главы метамфетаминовой империи в Нью-Мексико. В четвертом сезоне Гус был главным антагонистом телесериала.
На фото: Эспозито в фильме «Во все тяжкие»
Актерская игра Эспозито была высоко оценена критиками. В 2012 году он был удостоен премии «Выбор телевизионных критиков» в категории «Лучший драматический актер второго плана», а также был номинирован на премию «Primetime Emmy Awards», однако победу одержал коллега Эспозито по сериалу – Аарон Пол.
«Однажды в сказке»
Эспозито снялся в первом сезоне популярного сериала телеканала ABC «Однажды в сказке», вышедшего на экраны в октябре 2011 года. Актер исполнил роль Сиднея, репортера газеты города Сторибрук «The Daily Mirror» (дословно: «Ежедневное зеркало»), а также роль Волшебного Зеркала, принадлежащего Злой Королеве, в мире сказок.
Джанкарло Эспозито в фильме «Бегущий в лабиринте: Испытание огнем»
Кроме того, Джанкарло присоединился к вселенной мультфильмов компании DC. Он озвучил суперзлодея Ра’с аль Гула в «Сыне Бэтмена» (2014) и Черного Паука в анимационном фильме «Бэтмен: Нападение на Аркхэм» (2014).
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Биография
Джанкарло Эспозито известен благодаря ярким и неоднозначным образам злодеев, сыгранным на телевидении и в кино. Преданность профессии и работа над собой помогли актеру завоевать любовь зрителей и удостоиться звезды на «Аллее славы» в Голливуде. В благодарственной речи он отметил, что считает присвоение награды только началом творческого пути. Исполнитель назвал это новым этапом биографии.
Детство и юность
Джанкарло Эспозито появился на свет 26 апреля 1958 года в Копенгагене, Дания. Он был младшим ребенком в семье, воспитывался вместе с братом Винсентом. Отец, итальянец по национальному происхождению, был плотником и работником сцены. Мать, афроамериканка, прославилась как оперная певица.
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Когда мальчику было 6 лет, он переехал в Нью-Йорк. Вскоре после этого Джанкарло начал делать первые шаги в творчестве. Он получил роль в бродвейской постановке «Мэгги Флинн». На сцене мальчик продемонстрировал унаследованный от матери талант к вокалу.
Но после окончания школы Эспозито не стал получать профессиональное актерское образование. Вместо этого он отучился в колледже Элизабет Сетон, где защитил диплом в области теле- и радиокоммуникаций. Свой выбор артист объяснил просто: если бы с актерством не сложилось, у него был запасной вариант.
Фильмы
Экранная карьера исполнителя началась с небольших ролей. Он регулярно появлялся в фильмах, которые не приносили популярности, но давали опыт и раскрывали талант молодого актера. Впервые на него обратили внимание благодаря сотрудничеству со Спайком Ли.
В 1988 году артист воплотил главного героя в картине режиссера «Школьные годы чудесные». После успешного выхода ленты Эспозито продолжил сотрудничать с Ли и снялся в нашумевшей ленте «Делай как надо!», где появился в эпизоде.
Еще в молодости талантливому исполнителю начали предлагать играть злодеев. Но, даже несмотря на отрицательные черты, герои Джанкарло вызывают сопереживание и часто становятся на скользкий путь из-за глубокой личной драмы.
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С приходом 2000-х востребованность знаменитости снизилась. Ему предлагали небольшие роли в таких проектах, как «Кости» и «Говорящая с призраками». Сериалы были популярны на телевидении, но артист оставался в тени молодых коллег.
Цепочку неудач разорвало приглашение на пробы в криминальную драму «Во все тяжкие», где коллегами актера стали Брайан Крэнстон и Аарон Пол. Эспозито предстал перед зрителями в образе Густаво Фринга — владельца закусочной, которая используется в качестве прикрытия для подпольного изготовления и продажи наркотиков.
Изначально планировалось, что артист появится только в паре эпизодов, но он заинтересовал создателей драмы, и линию героя расширили. В 4-м сезоне Густаво стал главным антагонистом сериала, и впоследствии журнал Rolling Stone поместил его в топ-10 величайших телевизионных злодеев.
Позже исполнитель вновь сыграл Фринга в спин-оффе «Во все тяжкие» — «Лучше звоните Солу». За годы работы персонаж стал по-настоящему близок Джанкарло, ведь он продумал его историю до мелочей, начиная с детства и юности. Неудивительно, что образ получился таким правдоподобным, а знаменитость неоднократно номинировали на «Эмми».
Другой удачный проект в фильмографии актера — сериал «Однажды в сказке». Ему выпало играть героя в двух измерениях — сказочном и реальном мире. Изначально образ кажется отрицательным, но по мере развития сюжета зрители меняют отношение к нему.
Затем Эспозито появился в продолжениях фильма «Бегущий в лабиринте» — «Испытание огнем» и «Лекарство от смерти». После завершения работы над этой серией актер не остался без работы. Он мелькнул в эпизоде «Мира Дикого Запада», а затем приступил к съемкам в сериале «Мандалорец».
Действия проекта происходят во вселенной «Звездных войн», поклонником которых является исполнитель. Его мофф Гидеон с первого появления заинтересовал зрителей. Успел Джанкарло поработать и над нашумевшим телешоу «Пацаны», воплотив Стена Эдгара.
Личная жизнь
Звезда не любит говорить о личной жизни, уделяя внимание творческим достижениям. В прошлом женой Джанкарло была Джой Макманигал. В браке у них родились четыре дочери: Кале Лин, Шейн Лира, Руби и Сирлусия. Но наличие совместных детей не стало препятствием для развода, состоявшегося в 2015-м. Сейчас артист старается проводить с наследницами все свободное время, регулярно публикует фото с ними.
Джанкарло Эспозито сейчас
Актер остается активным и востребованным. В 2022 году он продолжил участие в уже запущенных проектах, а также появился в фильме «Бьюти». В интервью Джанкарло признавался, что охотно сыграет и Профессора Икс во вселенной «Марвел», и вернется к роли Фринга в отдельном спин-оффе, только бы были предложения.
В 2023 году Эспозито порадовал поклонников премьерой сериала «Калейдоскоп», на площадке которого объединился с Джаем Кортни и Руфусом Сьюэллом.
Фильмография
- 1981 — «Отбой»
- 1989 — «Делай как надо!»
- 1990 — «Король Нью-Йорка»
- 1991 — «Харли Дэвидсон и Ковбой Мальборо»
- 1992 — «Малкольм Икс»
- 1992 — «Боб Робертс»
- 1994 — «Дерзкий»
- 1995 — «Подозрительные лица»
- 1998–1999 — «Убойный отдел»
- 2001 — «Али»
- 2006 — «Последний отпуск»
- 2008 — «Госпел Хилл»
- 2010 — «Кроличья нора»
- 2011–2017 — «Однажды в сказке»
- 2012–2014 — «Революция»
- 2015 — «Бегущий в лабиринте: Испытание огнём»
- 2016 — «Книга джунглей»
- 2016 — «Финансовый монстр»
- 2017–2022 — «Лучше звоните Солу»
- 2018 — «Бегущий в лабиринте: Лекарство от смерти»
- 2019 — «Мандалорец»
- 2019–2022 — «Пацаны»
- 2019–2021 — «Крёстный отец Гарлема»
- 2020 — «Старгёрл»
- 2022 — «Киберпанк: Бегущие по краю»
Интересные факты
- Чтобы оставаться в форме и упорядочить мысли, актер практикует йогу. При росте 171 см он весит 63 кг.
- Эспозито основал компанию Quiet Hand Productions, выступает в качестве режиссера и продюсера. Он снял фильмы «Госпел Хилл» и «Это — ваша смерть», которые получили средние оценки критиков.
- Поклонникам запомнилось появление звезды в клипе Милен Фармер на песню California.
- Помимо английского исполнитель говорит на итальянском и испанском языках.
- Джанкарло известен своим участием в озвучивании мультсериалов и видеоигр. Его голосом говорит диктатор Антон Кастильо из игры Far Cry 6, который также наделен чертами внешности артиста. Этого героя он тоже постарался сделать не картонным злодеем, а неоднозначной личностью.