Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is an actor and filmmaker from America, who is best known for his portrayal of Gus Fring in the AMC shows ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’. A native of Copenhagen, Esposito relocated to the United States when he was six years old. He was a student of Elizabeth Seton College in New York, from where he received his degree in radio and television communications. At the age of eight, he started his stage career by appearing in a Broadway production of ‘Maggie Flynn’. In 1979, he had his big screen debut in the sports drama ‘Running’. Over the course of his career, he has appeared in films like ‘Fresh’, ‘Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man’, ‘The Usual Suspects’, and ‘King of New York’. Between 1971 to 1977, he served as a singer on ‘The Electric Company’, a children’s show that aired on PBS. Esposito has directed two films to date, ‘Gospel Hill’ and ‘The Show’. For his outing as Gus Fring, he received the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama award at the 2012 Critics' Choice Television Awards.