# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giancarlo-esposito
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:06:15.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giancarlo-esposito"
name: "Giancarlo Esposito"
slug: "giancarlo-esposito"
description: "Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is an American actor and director. He rose to prominence for his portrayal of Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2009–2011), a role he reprised in the spin-off Better Call Saul (2017–2022). For this role, Esposito won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series twice and earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giancarlo_Esposito_Anemone-22_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump