![]() ![]() In Feel the Noise (2007), he played ex-musician Roberto, the Puerto Rican father of Omarion Grandberry's character, aspiring rap star "Rob". He has appeared in New Amsterdam and CSI: Miami. The film explores homophobia.Įsposito played Robert Fuentes, a Miami businessman with shady connections, on the UPN television series South Beach. Also in 2006, he played an unsympathetic detective named Esposito in the 2005 film, Hate Crime. In 2006 Esposito starred in Last Holiday as Senator Dillings, alongside Queen Latifah and Timothy Hutton. in Ali, and Miguel Algarín, friend and collaborator of Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero, in Piñero. In 2001, he played Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. Other TV credits include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Practice, New York Undercover, and Fallen Angels: Fearless.Įsposito has portrayed drug dealers ( Fresh, Breaking Bad, King of New York, Better Call Saul), policemen ( The Usual Suspects, Derailed), political radicals ( Bob Roberts, Do the Right Thing), and a demonic version of the Greek God of Sleep Hypnos from another dimension ( Monkeybone). In 1997 Esposito played the film roles of Darryl in Trouble on the Corner and Charlie Dunt in Nothing to Lose. ![]() Another multiracial role was as Sergeant Paul Gigante in the television comedy series, Bakersfield P.D. Mike's estranged father, shift lieutenant Al Giardello, is portrayed as subject to racism, something Esposito's character practiced in School Daze. He played this character during the show's seventh and final season. That role drew from both his African American and Italian ancestry. He also appeared in the mainstream film Reckless with Mia Farrow, and Waiting to Exhale starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett.Įsposito played FBI agent Mike Giardello on the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. During the 1990s Esposito appeared in the acclaimed indie films Night on Earth, Fresh and Smoke, as well as its sequel Blue in the Face. Over the next four years, Esposito and Lee collaborated on three other movies: Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, and Malcolm X. In 1988 he landed his breakout role as the leader ("Dean Big Brother Almighty") of the black fraternity "Gamma Phi Gamma" in director Spike Lee's film School Daze, exploring color relations at black colleges.
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