Giancarlo Esposito

Music Department / Actor / Producer

Birthplace – Copenhagen, Denmark

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to an Italian carpenter/stagehand father from Naples, Italy, and an African-American opera singer mother from Alabama. His parents, working in Europe at the time of his birth, settled in Manhattan by the time he was 6, and that’s where he grew up.

Coming from a theatrical background, it was, perhaps, inevitable that young Giancarlo would appear on stage sooner or later, and he did, at age 8, appearing on Broadway as a slave child in “Maggie Flynn” in 1966.

More Broadway work followed through the 1960s and early ’70s, followed by some small roles in movies. TV work followed in the 1980s, with increasingly significant parts in a string of high-profile series until he became well-established as a character player both on TV and in a number of movies.

He came very much to the public’s attention playing Agent Mike Giardello in the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) in 1998 and since then has rarely been off our screens.

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Filmography

Captain America: Brave New World

Sidewinder (2025)

Megalopolis

Mayor Cicero (2024)

Abigail

Lambert (2024)

Line of Duty

Volk (2019)

Coda

Paul (2021)

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Jorge (2018)

Money Monster

Captain Powell (2016)

The Jungle Book

Akela (2016)

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Jorge (2015)

Stardust

Mr. Peavey (2020)

Nothing to Lose

Charlie Dunt (2018)

The Usual Suspects

Jack Baer (1995)

MaXXXine

Teddy Night, Esq. (2024)