In 2013, Giancarlo Esposito, an American film and TV actor, producer, and director, was thought to have a net worth of $2 million. He is best known for his parts in movies like King of New York, The Usual Suspects, and Do the Right Thing, as well as the TV show Breaking Bad, for which he won an award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama. He was nominated for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award at the 2012 Primetime Emmys for playing the same character.
Giancarlo Esposito has also been in Once Upon a Time, Revolution, and Certainty. Feel the Noise, Gospel Hill, Xenophobia, Rabbit Hole, S.W.A.T. : Firefight, Alex Cross, Dreaming American, and Over/Under are some of his most recent movies. His most recent TV roles were in Leverage, Lie to Me, Detroit 1-8-7, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Once Upon a Time, Community, NYC 22, Revolution, and Axe op. On April 26, 1958, Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He comes from both Italy and the United States of Africa.
Giancarlo Esposito Net Worth
Giancarlo Esposito is paid $65k per episode.
Giancarlo Esposito Earnings: Giancarlo Esposito is an actor and director from the United States who was born in Denmark. He has a net worth of $8 million. He is best known for playing Gus Fring in the award-winning TV shows “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” which were both spin-offs of “Breaking Bad.”
Giancarlo Esposito Early Life
Giancarlo Esposito Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 12, 1958. His father was from Naples, Italy, and worked as a stagehand and a carpenter. His mother was an Alabama-born opera and nightclub vocalist. He comes from both Italians and African-Americans. When he was six, his parents and older brother moved to New York City, where he would grow up and go to high school.
He was a natural performer, and he made his Broadway debut in the play “Maggie Flynn” when he was only eight years old. He played a child slave opposite the famous actress and singer Shirley Jones, and he continued to act in Broadway and off-Broadway shows all through his childhood. When he was 13, he had a part in the Tony-winning musical “Seesaw.” He has said that this was the first time he felt like he had done well.
He could have kept acting and made a career out of it without going to college, but he wanted to learn more about the technical side of theatre and performing, so at age 17, he went to Elizabeth Seton College in Yonkers, New York, to get a two-year degree in radio and television communication. Not only did he love the business, but he also wanted to have a good plan B in case acting didn’t work out.
Giancarlo Esposito Personal Life
Esposito married Joy McManigal, a producer, in 1995, but they split up in 2015. Together, they have four girls. He speaks Italian and Spanish very well. He got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014.
Giancarlo Esposito Career
After Esposito graduated from Elizabeth Seton College in 1977, she sang on “The Electric Company,” a show for kids that was similar to “Sesame Street” and taught kids about things. Then, from 1982 to 1984, he played a camp counsellor on “Sesame Street.” In the 1980s, he had small parts in a few movies. His big break came in 1988’s “School Daze,” a musical comedy by Spike Lee. With a budget of only $6.5 million, it made more than $14 million, making it a financial success.
After that, Esposito was cast in Spike Lee’s dramas “Mo’ Better Blues” in 1990, “Malcom X” in 1992, and “Do the Right Thing” in 1898. He played a supporting role in the independent drama “Fresh,” which came out in 1994. For that role, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 1995, he played a supporting role in the critically acclaimed movie “The Usual Suspects” and one of the main roles in the independent movie “Smoke.” Even at this point in his career, he was already good at putting on different personas and characters.
He had already played a drug lord, an FBI agent, a crisis phone operator, a transsexual, a hostage-taker, and a reverend before he played a lieutenant and a werewolf in the 1997 miniseries “Creature.” In the seventh season of the popular TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street,” he played FBI Agent Mike, which brought him more attention. In 2001, he played Muhammad Ali’s father in the biographical drama “Ali” and had a small part in the black comedy “Monkey bone.”
In the 2002 show “Girls Club,” which only lasted one season, he played a lawyer. He had small roles on TV shows and miniseries like “Law & Order,” “5 Days to Midnight,” “South Beach,” “Ghost Whisperer,” and “Bones” for the next few years. In 2006, he had a small part in the movie “Last Holiday,” which Queen Latifa also starred in. In 2008, he made his first movie as a director.
It was called “Gospel Hill.” Danny Glover and Samuel L. Jackson are among the stars of the drama. It wasn’t shown in theatres, but it was shown at a few film festivals. Esposito won an award for his work at both the Nashville Film Festival and the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival. In 2008, he was also in a Broadway production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” a play by Tennessee Williams.
