Biography Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito born April 26, 1958, is an American film and television actor and director

Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Danish to Italian father and African-American mothers. His mother was an opera and nightclub singer from Alabama, who once appeared on the same bill with Josephine Baker. His father came from Naples, and worked as a stagehand and carpenter. Esposito lived in Europe, New York, and Cleveland until the family settled in Manhattan when he was six years old.

Esposito recalled that he and his brother, young children who live in Germany, ran and hid from the sender Ivory Coast, he was very intimidating because he is black and dark-skinned people. Their mothers were aware that they do not realize their parents are of different colors, and he determined to prepare them for the racism they will face when they move to the United States. The family later moved to Elmsford, New York, just north of New York City, where Esposito lived on the border between black and Italian urban environments. He currently owns a house in Woodstock, New York and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He is the father of four daughters, and separated from his wife Joy McManigal.

He menawali his Broadway debut (1966) at the age of eight years as a child slave role opposite Shirley Jones in the short-lived Maggie Flynn. He was not offended the racial politics of the play’s later, she was thrilled. “I have a solo and everything.”

In the 1980s, Esposito appeared in small roles in films such as Maximum Overdrive, King of New York, and Trading Places and TV shows like Miami Vice and Spenser: For Hire. He played JC Pierce, a cadet in the 1981 film taps. In 1988, he landed a breakout role as a student labeled as a wannabe “” by his peers in the film director Spike Lee’s School Daze. During the next four years, Esposito and Lee collaborated on three other movies: Do the right thing, Mo ‘Better Blues and Malcolm X. She also appeared in Reckless with Mia Farrow.

Esposito was known for his role as FBI agent Mike Giardello on the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. roles that reflected both its black and Italian heritage. He played 1998-1999 up to the cancellation of the series’. Character’s father Al is described as subject to colorism, Esposito character of something that was practiced in School Daze. Biracial Other roles are Sergeant Paul Gigante in a television comedy series, Bakersfield PD (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1993-1994).

Other TV credits include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Practice, and Fallen Angels: Fearless.

Esposito describes drug dealers (Fresh), cops (The Usual Suspect), radical politics (Bob Roberts) and even the devil version of the Greek God of Sleep from another dimension (Monkeybone.) He played Cassius Clay, Sr., in Ali and Nuyorican poet Miguel friend Algarín Miguel Piñero and collaborators in Piñero, both released in 2001.

Mr. Esposito played by Robert Fuentes, a Miami businessman with shady connections, in the UPN television series South Beach. He has appeared in New Amsterdam and CSI: Miami. He recorded public service announcements for the literacy campaign Ra’s Hip hop deejay to encourage reading about Muhammed Ali. He is currently involved with the AMC series Breaking Bad, playing businessman / methamphetamine kingpin Gustavo Fring.

Gospel Hill (2008) is his directorial debut, it also produced the film, and star in it. He is currently producing the next film is set in the Diamond District of New York, with Matt Damon is rumored to be starring.

His New York theater credits include The Me Knows there, Lost in the Stars, seesaw, and Merrily We Roll Along. In 2008 he appeared on Broadway as Gooper in the production of African American Pulitzer Prize-winning Tennessee Williams ‘Cat’ in the Hot Tin Roof drama, directed by Debbie Allen and starring James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose and Terrence Howard.

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