David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo OBE (born 1 April 1976) is an English actor and producer. His highest-profile role to date was as Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 biographical drama film Selma. On television, he played MI5 officer Danny Hunter on the British drama series Spooks and Javert in the BBC miniseries Les Misérables. He played the title role in Othello in 2016 at the New York Theatre Workshop with Daniel Craig as Iago.
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David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo OBE (born 1 April 1976) is an English actor and producer. His highest-profile role to date was as Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 biographical drama film Selma. On television, he played MI5 officer Danny Hunter on the British drama series Spooks and Javert in the BBC miniseries Les Misérables. He has played supporting roles in the films Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Lincoln, Jack Reacher and garnered praise for portraying Louis Gaines in The Butler. He played the title role in Othello in 2016 at the New York Theatre Workshop with Daniel Craig as Iago, directed by Sam Gold. In 2007, he appeared as Olaudah Equiano in The Olshackled Story, a radio play adapting Equiano’s autobiography, The Life of Olaudahs Equiano. In 2006, he made his directorial debut on a production of The White Devil, produced by Inservice, his theatre company in Brighton which is co-run with fellow Brighton-based actors Priyanga Burford, Israel Aduramo, Penelope Cobbuld, and his wife, Jessica.
He was the first black actor to play an English king in a major production of Shakespeare, and although this casting choice was initially criticised by some in the media, he later won the 2001 Ian Charleson Award for best performance by an actor under 30 in a classical play. He is the reader for John le Carré’s The Mission: A Song of John le le Songé’s, published by Simon & Schuster, £16.99, and is a member of the British Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (BAM). He has been said to have 8 middle names, among which are ‘Animamoma’ and ‘Chukwudi’.
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