15 MORE Stars You Thought Were Latino—But Aren't!

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Giancarlo Esposito, 53

Giancarlo has a common Latino last name (Esposito) and he’s played Latino characters in several movies and television shows. He was the Nuyorican poet Miguel Algarin in the biopic, Piñero (2001) and starred as the Puerto Rican father of Omarion Grandberry's character in Feel the Noise (2007). But Esposito—who currently stars as Gustavo "Gus" Fring on AMC's critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad, has no Latin roots to speak of. Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father and an African-American mother.