When the name Giancarlo Esposito appears on the credits of any movie or tv series, those who don't know what the actor looks like, always look for a typical Italian-American face. When they think they know who it is, they always later find out their guess was wrong. That's because Esposito doesn't have your typical Italian appearance.

Esposito is half African American, half Italian. His mother was an opera singer from Alabama, and his father was a carpenter and stagehand from Napoli, who worked at the San Carlo Opera Co. at the seaport of Napoli, which is where the two met.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano