<P> Gustavo "Gus" Fring is a fictional character in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, played by Giancarlo Esposito . Fring is a prominent methamphetamine distributor in the Southwestern United States, who uses several legitimate businesses, including a chain of successful fast food fried chicken restaurants called Los Pollos Hermanos and an industrial laundry facility called Lavanderia Brillante, as fronts for a vast drug operation . Gus maintains a positive exterior; he takes an active role in managing his front businesses and is a booster for the DEA, making large donations to the agency's Albuquerque office . However, Gus is ruthless and Machiavellian in managing his vast drug empire . He employs a number of enforcers and has personally killed rivals and associates . </P> <P> For his portrayal of Gus, Esposito won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 3rd Critics' Choice Television Awards and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards . Paste ranked Fring number 3 in its list of the 20 Best Characters of 2011 . TV Guide named him No. 3 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time, and in 2016, Rolling Stone ranked him No. 7 of their "40 Greatest TV Villains of All Time". </P> <P> Gustavo is originally from Chile . He emigrated to Mexico in the 1980s during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet . With his longtime friend and crime partner, Maximino "Max" Arciniega, Gus started a chicken restaurant called Los Pollos Hermanos . Max was murdered by the Juárez Cartel, leading Gus to emigrate to the United States and re-establish Los Pollos Hermanos as a chain of fast - food restaurants in Albuquerque, New Mexico . Using his restaurants' supply chain as a front, Gus began distributing drugs in the American southwest on behalf of the cartel, an operation that eventually grew to encompass methamphetamine . </P> <P> Gus claims to have children, yet they have never been seen onscreen and little else about his family life has been revealed . It is implied that "Gus Fring" may be an assumed name; neither Hank nor Mike can find any record of his existence before his arrival in Mexico . Don Eladio, the cartel's leader, mentions that he spares Gus's life only because he knows who Gus is, and warns him that he "isn't in Chile anymore"; in a flashback scene, Hector Salamanca mockingly refers to him as "Grand Generalissimo", implying that Gus may have had connections to the Pinochet regime . Gilligan has stated that he purposely left Gus's origin ambiguous, comparing it to the briefcase in Pulp Fiction . </P>

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