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Born in Denmark to an Italian father and an African-American mother, Esposito lived in Europe, New York and Cleveland until the family settled in Manhattan when he was six. He began acting in the late 1970s. Throughout most of the 1980s he appeared in small roles in films such as Maximum Overdrive and Trading Places and TV shows such as Miami Vice and Spenser: For Hire, until landing his breakout role as a conflicted, light-skinned college student in director Spike Lee's 1988 film School Daze. Over the next four years, Esposito and Lee collaborated in three other movies: Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, and Malcolm X. World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 film directed by Stephen King. ... Trading Places (1983) is the title of a successful comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. ... Miami Vice was a popular, innovative television series (five seasons on NBC from 1984-1989) starring Don Johnson (James Sonny Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo Rico Tubbs) as two Miami police detectives working undercover. ... Spenser: For Hire is a mystery, P.I. television series based on Robert B. Parkers Spenser novels. ... Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957), better known as Spike Lee, is a film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his bold, overtly political films. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Do the Right Thing is a 1989 motion picture produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee and released by Universal Pictures. ... Poster of movie Mo Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed. ... Malcolm X is a 1992 dramatic movie directed by Spike Lee about the African-American activist and Black nationalist Malcolm X. The story is based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley. ...

Esposito is probably best known for his portrayal of Det. Mike Giardetto on the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street, a role he played from 1998 until the series' cancellation in 1999. Other TV credits include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, and The Practice. Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... NYPD Blue was a long-running American television police drama. ... Law & Order is the longest-running primetime drama currently on American television, and only one other current primetime series -- The Simpsons -- has been on the air longer. ... The Practice was a long-running (March 4, 1997 - May 16, 2004, eight seasons) ABC legal drama TV series created by David E. Kelley about a Boston, Massachusetts law firm. ...

Esposito's career and choice of roles defies pigeonholing; he has portrayed drug dealers (Fresh), cops (The Usual Suspects), political radicals (Bob Roberts) and even demonic monsters from other dimensions (Monkeybone.) His last notable roles were as Muhammed Ali's father in Ali and Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero's friend and collaborator Miguel Algarin in Piñero, both released in 2001. Fresh (1994) is the debut film of writer and director Boaz Yakin. ... The Usual Suspects DVD The Usual Suspects, a 1995 American movie written by Christopher McQuarrie (who earned an Oscar for the screenplay) and directed by Bryan Singer. ... In political science, the label radical denotes one who desires extreme change of all or part of the social order. (Britannica Deluxe CD2000). ... Bob Roberts is a 1992 film directed and written by Tim Robbins. ... In folklore, mythology, and religion, a demon or demoness is a supernatural being that has generally been described as a malevolent spirit but outside Christian circles was viewed as a sort of elemental spirit: compare Daemon and djinn. ... Dimension (from Latin measured out) is, in essence, the number of degrees of freedom available for movement in a space. ... Monkeybone is a 2001 film based on Kaja Blackleys graphic novel Dark Town. The movie stars Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Rose McGowan & Chris Kattan. ... Other people with this name: Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Mehemet Ali (Turkey) Muhammad Ali-Haj (born January 17, 1942 as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. ... Ali is a 2001 biographical film which tells the story of boxer Muhammad Ali. ... Nuyorican is a blending of the phrases New York and Puerto Rican and refers to the members or culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora located in or around New York City, or of their descendants (especially those raised or still living in the New York area). ... Miguel Piñero (December 19, 1946–June 18, 1988), born in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, was a playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. ... Professor Miguel Algarin born (c. ... Piñero (2001) is a movie about the troubled life of Nuyorican poet and Playwright Miguel Piñero, starring Benjamin Bratt, Talisa Soto, Rita Moreno and Loraine Velez. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

External Links

• Giancarlo Esposito at geocities.com
• Esposito at imdb.com