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 ...
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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, and she determined to prepare them for the racism they would encounter when they moved to the United States. 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...
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