Giancarlo Esposito

Played Maggie Gyllenhaal's parole officer in "Sherrybaby"

Cast opposite Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston in the psychological thriller "Derailed"

Landed another television series role in FOX drama "Girl's Club"

Had featured role in "Pinero", a biopic of the Latino poet-playwright Miguel Pinero

Reprised role of Special Agent Mike Giardello in "Homicide: The Movie" (NBC)

Returned to series TV as co-star of the Fox drama "The $treet"

Starred in the sci-fi adventure "Stardust"; aired on HBO in lieu of theatrical release

Had a supporting role in Robert Benton's "Twilight", starring veterans Paul Newman, James Garner and Gene Hackman

Played a hit man hired to murder an old high school pal in Showtime's "Naked City: Justice With a Bullet"

Was featured alongside the odd buddy pairing Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins in the adventure film "Nothing to Lose"

Guest starred on episodes of "Chicago Hope", "Nash Bridges" (both CBS), "NYPD Blue" (ABC) and "Living Single" (Fox)

Appeared in the short-lived Broadway play "Sacrilege"

Co-produced and starred in "The Keeper", playing a corrections officer on a journey of self-discovery

Featured in "The Usual Suspects", "Reckless" and "Kla$h" as well as Wayne Wang's "Smoke" and its follow up "Blue in the Face"

Starred as a drug dealer who takes a streetwise teen under his wing in Boaz Yakin's drama "Fresh"

Co-starred in "Simple Justice", an installment of the PBS "The American Experience" docudrama series examining the groundbreaking Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling

Appeared in the biopic "Malcolm X"; fourth feature with Spike Lee

Co-starred as Bugs Raplin, an investigative journalist with dirt on Senate hopeful "Bob Roberts" in Tim Robbins' comedic pseudo-documentary pseudo-documentary

Played YoYo in the New York-set segment of Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth"

Acted in Lee's "Mo' Better Blues"

Featured in Abel Ferrara's cult hit "King of New York"

Played incendiary neighborhood activist Buggin Out in Spike Lee's acclaimed "Do the Right Thing"

First collaboration with Spike Lee, "School Daze"

Acted in the miniseries "Roanoak" (PBS), a chronicle of English explorers' first encounters with Native Americans in the New World

Appeared in the Stephen King drama "Maximum Overdrive"

Had a cameo role in the comedy feature "Desperately Seeking Susan" and a memorable guest turn as Adonis Jackson on "Miami Vice" (NBC)

Acted in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Cotton Club"

Played a bit part in "Trading Places"; also featured in "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute"

Had a regular role on the CBS daytime drama "Guiding Light"

Acted in the short-lived Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical "Merrily We Roll Along"

Featured in the ensemble drama "Taps"

TV-movie debut in "The Gentleman Bandit" (CBS)

Made film debut in "Running"

Had featured role in the Broadway musical "Seesaw"; performed the musical number "Spanglish"

Made Broadway debut in "Maggie Flynn" at the age of eight

Co-starred as FBI Agent Mike Giardello on NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street"

Co-starred in the Broadway musical "Don't Get God Started"

Portrayed Ernesto in the New York theater production of "Balm in Gilead", directed by John Malkovich

Starred as Sgt. Paul Gigante on the quirky sitcom "Bakersfield P.D." (Fox)