Giancarlo Esposito

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1958 age 0

   Born

2. 1983 age 25

   CreditTrading Places

3. 1989 age 31

   CreditDo the Right Thing

4. 1990 age 32

   CreditKing of New York

5. 1991 age 33

   CreditNight on Earth

6. 1992 age 34

   CreditMalcolm X

7. 1995 age 37

   CreditThe Usual Suspects

8. 2001 age 43

   CreditAli

9. 2010 age 52

   CreditRabbit Hole

10. 2015 age 57

    CreditMaze Runner: The Scorch Trials

11. 2016 age 58

    CreditMoney Monster

    CreditThe Jungle Book

12. 2017 age 59

    CreditOkja

13. 2018 age 60

    CreditMaze Runner: The Death Cure

14. 2024 age 66

    CreditMegalopolis

15. 2025 age 67

    CreditCaptain America: Brave New World

• JFJon Favreau4 titles
• NENathalie Emmanuel3 titles
• PPPedro Pascal3 titles
• JBJonathan Banks3 titles
• BOBob Odenkirk3 titles
• ASAmy Sedaris3 titles
• BHBryce Dallas Howard3 titles
• OAOmid Abtahi3 titles
• CWCarl Weathers3 titles
• GCGina Carano3 titles

• When you are able to let your expectation of what might be go and listen to what is proposed, then you can create a new vision for yourself and see yourself walking in those shoes again.

  Giancarlo Esposito, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I’m acting but not acting because I’m in such a place where, as an actor, all I have to do is listen. Whether it be your voice, who I’m talking to, or whether it be the voice inside me — and maybe that’s the key that I’ve never, ever talked about.

  Giancarlo Esposito, CC BY-SA 4.0

• These are the things I look for because I’m more seasoned than I was years ago. Directing is not about me. As an actor, God, it becomes all about me, and I don’t want it to be about me anymore. I’ve had enough of me.

  Giancarlo Esposito, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The words are important, but the intention is of even greater importance. My job is to interpret that. As an actor, I’m an interpreter and a channeler. As a director, I’m able to interpret and then channel something original, infuse it with an original energy that extends and tells the story even more clearly.

  Giancarlo Esposito, CC BY-SA 4.0

• As a director, I always look for projects that are uplifting and change the way we think about the world we live in, so those films aren’t always mainstream. I’m looking to do something that encompasses a man who’s trying to find himself, but it’s an action film. He’s struggling with something he’s done in his past and he’s moving through it in a way that puts him in a position where he becomes a stranger in a strange land. I want to tackle that.

  Giancarlo Esposito, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I mean for me to play desire, to play the desire not to be lonely is one thing, to play the desire to allow someone to know me. Right. So I relate to that in my life. Because people know me in my life as Gus Fring or Moff Gideon or Stan Edgar or a plethora of other characters. And so who really knows me? And do I want them to know me? Right. It depends on who that is. Right. So I used to want fans to know me, but now they know me through a variety of different characters. So then I have to ask myself, what is the reveal for me? And it’s the same for Gus. In that moment I’m thinking, oh, I desire to be known. For me I know I desire to be loved, I desire to be admired. I desire to be held. Thank goodness I have children who I can, I have daughters who I become more and more real, the more mature I get because I’m able to ask, I tell them, ask for what you want, but do I tell myself to ask for what I want?

  Giancarlo Esposito, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States, Italy

Languages

Italian, English, Spanish

Years active

1966–

Education

Elizabeth Seton College, The Harlem School of the Arts