Giancarlo Esposito Biography

Fast Facts

• Is half African-American, half Italian
• Started acting at age 8
• His personal heroes include Burt Lancaster, Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama
• Mother was a singer who once shared a bill in the mid-1950s with Josephine Baker
• Was one of the kid singers on The Electric Company theme song in 1969
• In 1982, he played Big Bird's camp counselor, Mickey, on Sesame Street
• Member of the Atlantic Theater Ensemble, founded by David Mamet and William H
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• Has appeared in four Spike Lee films: School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues and Malcolm X
• Practices yoga
• Enjoys riding motorcycles and playing the saxophone
• Member of the Creative Coalition, an organization that supports the First Amendment right to freedom of speech