Giancarlo Esposito Movies and Career Information

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American film and television actor and director. Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father and African-American mother. His mother was an opera and nightclub singer from Alabama, who once appeared on the same bill as Josephine Baker. His father was from Naples, and worked as a stagehand and carpenter. Esposito lived in Europe, New York, and Cleveland until the family settled in Manhattan when he was six. Esposito remembers that he and his brother, young boys living in Germany, ran and hid from an Ivorian deliveryman; he was frightening because he was a dark-skinned Black man. Their mother realized they were unaware their parents had different colors. The family later moved to Elmsford, New York, just north of New York City, where Esposito lived on the border between the town's black and Italian neighborhoods. He currently owns houses in Red Hook, New York and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He is the father of four daughters, and separated from his wife Joy McManigal. He made his Broadway debut (1966) at age eight playing a slave child opposite Shirley Jones in the short-lived Maggie Flynn. He did not