Giancarlo Esposito Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Giancarlo Esposito filmography covers 65 movie titles and 51 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Giancarlo Esposito movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Taps (1981) as Cadet Captain J.C. Pierce
• Trading Places (1983) as Cellmate #2
• The Brother from Another Planet (1984) as Man Being Arrested (uncredited)
• The Cotton Club (1984) as Bumpy Hood
• Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) as Street Vendor
• Maximum Overdrive (1986) as Videoplayer
• School Daze (1988) as Julian 'Dean Big Brother Almighty' Eaves
• Do the Right Thing (1989) as Buggin Out
• King of New York (1990) as Lance
• Mo' Better Blues (1990) as Left Hand Lacey (Piano)
• Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) as Jimmy Jiles
• Jungle Fever (1991) as Homeless Man
• Night on Earth (1991) as YoYo
• Bob Roberts (1992) as Bugs Raplin
• Malcolm X (1992) as Thomas Hayer
• Amos & Andrew (1993) as The Reverend Fenton Brunch
• Fresh (1994) as Esteban
• Blue in the Face (1995) as Tommy Finelli
• Smoke (1995) as 1st OTB Man / Tommy
• The Usual Suspects (1995) as Jack Baer
• Waiting to Exhale (1995) as David Matthews (uncredited)
• Nothing to Lose (1997) as Charlie Dunt
• Phoenix (1998) as Louie
• Twilight (1998) as Reuben Escobar
• Homicide: The Movie (2000) as Mike Giardello
• Ali (2001) as Cassius Clay, Sr.
• Monkeybone (2001) as Hypnos
• Blind Horizon (2003) as J.C. Reynolds
• Doing Hard Time (2004) as Captain Pierce
• Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005) as Little Jeff
• Chupacabra Terror (2005) as Dr. Peña
• Derailed (2005) as Detective Church
• Hate Crime (2005) as Detective Esposito
• Last Holiday (2006) as Senator Dillings
• Sherrybaby (2006) as Parole Officer Hernandez
• Feel The Noise (2007) as Roberto Vega
• Gospel Hill (2008) as Dr. Palmer
• Rabbit Hole (2010) as Auggie
• S.W.A.T.: Firefight (2011) as Inspector Hollander
• Alex Cross (2012) as Daramus Holiday
• Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014) as Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)
• Poker Night (2014) as Bernard
• Son of Batman (2014) as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
• Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) as Jorge
• Brother Nature (2016) as Congressman Frank McClaren
• Money Monster (2016) as Captain Powell
• The Jungle Book (2016) as Akela (voice)
• The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare (2016) as Il Boss
• Okja (2017) as Frank Dawson
• The Show (2017) as Mason Washington
• Unacknowledged (2017) as Narrator
• Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) as Jorge
• Line of Duty (2019) as Tom Volk
• Stuck (2019) as Lloyd
• Coda (2020) as Paul
• Stargirl (2020) as Archie Brubaker
• Unpregnant (2020) as Bob
• Beauty (2022) as Beauty's Father
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) as Baxter Stockman (voice)
• Abigail (2024) as Lambert
• MaXXXine (2024) as Teddy Knight, Esq.
• Megalopolis (2024) as Mayor Cicero
• Captain America: Brave New World (2025) as Sidewinder
• Please Don't Feed the Children (2025) as Fitz
• The Electric State (2025) as Colonel Bradbury / The Marshall

Giancarlo Esposito television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Giancarlo Esposito; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• 5ive Days to Midnight as Tim Sanders
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Ambassador Theodore Kelefy
• Allegiance as Oscar Christoph
• Better Call Saul as Gus Fring
• Bones as Richard Benoit
• Breaking Bad as Gus Fring
• Chicago Hope as Cherchez LaFemme
• Community as Gilbert Lawson
• Creature as Lt. Thomas Peniston / Werewolf
• Creepshow as Doc
• Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior as Gordon Ramirez
• CSI: Miami as Chief Braga
• Dear White People as Narrator
• Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian as Self - Moff Gideon
• DuckTales as Phantom Blot (voice)
• Game Changer as Self - Guest
• Gen V as Stan Edgar
• Ghost Whisperer as Ely Fisher
• Godfather of Harlem as Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
• Half & Half as Darrell Washington
• Harley Quinn as Lex Luthor (voice)
• Homicide: Life on the Street as Michael Giardello
• Jett as Charlie Baudelaire
• Kaleidoscope as Leo Pap
• Kidnapped
• Las Vegas as Reggie Archibald
• Law & Order as Defense Attorney Rodney Fallon; Attorney Baylor
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Orlando Ramirez
• Leverage as Alexander Moto
• Lie to Me as Beau Hackman
• Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as Granite (voice)
• Miami Vice as Adonis Jackson; Luther; Ricky
• Nash Bridges as Whip Tyrell; Arnold / Gordon Keller
• New Amsterdam as James Lawson
• New York Undercover as Adolfo Guzman
• Once Upon a Time as Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror
• Parish as Gracián 'Gray' Parish
• Poker Face as Fred Finch
• Revolution as Tom Neville
• The Boys as Meerkat Stan Edgar (voice); Stan Edgar
• The Boys Presents: Diabolical as Stan Edgar (voice)
• The Equalizer as Jumpin' Jack
• The Gentlemen as Stanley Johnston (Uncle Stan)
• The Get Down as Pastor Ramon Cruz
• The Hunger as Vampire
• The Mandalorian as Moff Gideon
• The Practice as Ray McMurphy
• The Residence as A.B. Wynter
• Third Watch as Father Romero
• Touched by an Angel as Antonio Gaudi
• Westworld as El Lazo

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Giancarlo Esposito's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.