ACTOR

Giancarlo Esposito

1958 - Today

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Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒuˈzɛppe alesˈsandro eˈspɔːzito]; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, from 2009 to 2011, as well as in its prequel series Better Call Saul, from 2017 to 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giancarlo Esposito has received more than 18,250,912 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Giancarlo Esposito is the 970th most popular actor (down from 937th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 145th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 18M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Giancarlo Esposito ranks 970 out of 13,578. Before him are Miou-Miou, Jason Priestley, Cardi B, Dharmendra, Marisa Berenson, and Michael Biehn. After him are Patricia Neal, Stephen Boyd, Fran Drescher, Frank Oz, Fred Ward, and John Forsythe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Giancarlo Esposito ranks 47. Before him are Quique Setién, Andre Geim, Janez Janša, Robert Patrick, Mohammad Shtayyeh, and Ralf Rangnick. After him are Kais Saied, Rami Hamdallah, Madeleine Stowe, Lambert Wilson, Andie MacDowell, and Patrice Talon.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Giancarlo Esposito ranks 148 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Denmark (1789), Otto Jespersen (1860), Jesper Christensen (1948), Magnus, Duke of Holstein (1540), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), and Richard Møller Nielsen (1937). After him are Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), Thorvald Stauning (1873), Anne Sophie Reventlow (1693), Piet Hein (1905), Ulrich Salchow (1877), and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark (1912).

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Among ACTORS In Denmark

Among actors born in Denmark, Giancarlo Esposito ranks 6. Before him are Asta Nielsen (1881), Mads Mikkelsen (1965), Anna Karina (1940), Erik Bruhn (1928), and Jesper Christensen (1948). After him are Connie Nielsen (1965), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970), Annette Stroyberg (1936), Sidse Babett Knudsen (1968), Lars Mikkelsen (1964), and Ulrich Thomsen (1963).

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Television and Movie Roles

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Jorge
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
Sep 9o 20156.7 / 10
Breaking Bad
Gus Fring
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
8.917 / 10
The Usual Suspects
Jack Baer
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
Jul 19o 19958.2 / 10