Moff Gideon is the main antagonist of the Disney+ live-action Star Wars television series The Mandalorian. He is the main antagonist of the first two seasons. He is a former warlord in the Galactic Empire who served as an officer of the Imperial Security Bureau, and becomes the archenemy of the lone Mandalorian gunfighter, Din Djarin.
By 9 ABY, five years after the Empire's fall following the Battle of Endor, he claimed the title of Moff and formed his own faction within the Imperial remnants, consisting of mercenaries, former Stormtroopers, former Scout Troopers, former Death Troopers, and Dark Troopers. He works with sophisticated figures of the criminal underworld to acquire a force-sensitive Child to extract his blood to synthesize and create force-sensitive clones for the Imperial Army.
He is portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito, who also plays Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad, Sidney Glass in Once Upon a Time, The Dentist in Payday 2, Stan Edgar in The Boys, and Antón Castillo in Far Cry 6.