Giancarlo Esposito - Biography

Last Editor: coolfox16				Giancarlo Esposito Biography -   Name : Giancarlo Esposito Profession : Actor Birth Details : born April 26, 1958 Birth name : Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m) Personal quotes : "My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day-even if someone Spouse : Joy McManigal (1995 - present) 4 children

Giancarlo Esposito Trivia -

He is half African-American, half Italian. His mother was an opera singer, and his father was a stagehand/carpenter from Naples, Italy. His mother was doing a nightclub gig on a split bill with Josephine Baker in Copenhagen around the time he was born. Lived in Europe, New York City, and Cleveland until he, his older brother, Vincent, and their parents moved Manhattan when Giancarlo was six. During the boys' teens, the family lived in Elmsford (Westchester County), New York. Two children, with McManigal, Shayne (b. 1997) and Kate (b. 1998) Is a member of the Atlantic Theater Ensemble. Atlantic Theater is the theater company started by David Mamet and William H. Macy. He has won two Obie Awards for his performances in Distant Fires and Zooman and the Sign.

Giancarlo Esposito Detailed Biography -

Giancarlo Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American film and television actor. Born in Denmark to an Italian father and an African-American mother, Esposito lived in Europe, New York, and Cleveland until the family settled in Manhattan when he was six. He began acting in the late 1970s. Throughout most of the 1980s he appeared in small roles in films such as Maximum Overdrive and Trading Places and TV shows such as Miami Vice and Spenser: For Hire, until landing his breakout role as a conflicted, light-skinned college student in director Spike Lee's 1988 film School Daze. Over the next four years, Esposito and Lee collaborated in three other movies: Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, and Malcolm X. Esposito is probably best known for his portrayal of Det. Mike Giardello on the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street, a role he played from 1998 until the series' cancellation in 1999. Other TV credits include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, and The Practice. Esposito's career and choice of roles defies pigeonholing; he has portrayed drug dealers (Fresh), cops (The Usual Suspects), political radicals (Bob Roberts) and even a demonic version of the Greek God of Sleep from another dimension (Monkeybone.) His last notable roles were as Muhammed Ali's father in Ali and Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero's friend and collaborator Miguel Algarin in Piñero, both released in 2001. Currently, Esposito stars as Robert Fuentes, a Miami businessman with shady connections, on the UPN television series South Beach.