Idris Elba
Idrissa Akuna Elba OBE is an English actor, writer, producer, rapper, singer, songwriter and DJ. He is known for roles including Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire, DCI John Luther in the BBC One series Luther, and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, winning one. In 2016, he was named in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World.
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Idrissa Akuna Elba OBE is an English actor, writer, producer, rapper, singer, songwriter and DJ. He is known for roles including Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire, DCI John Luther in the BBC One series Luther, and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, winning one. In 2016, he was named in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World. As of May 2019, his films have grossed over USD 9. 8 billion at the global box office, including over USD 3. 6 billion in North America. He made his directorial debut in 2018 with an adaptation of the 1992 novel Yardie by Victor Headley. In addition to his acting work, Elba performs as a DJ under the moniker DJ Big Driis and as an R&B musician. Elba was born on 6 September 1972 in Hackney, London, the son of Winston, a Sierra Leonean man who worked at the Ford Dagenham plant, and Eve, a Ghanaian woman. He left school in 1988, and won a place in the National Youth Music Theatre thanks to a £1,500 Prince’s Trust grant. He credits The Stage with giving him his first big break, having seen an advertisement for a play in it; he auditioned and met his first agent while performing in the role. His first acting role was in Crimewatch murder reconstructions and in 1994 he appeared in a BBC children’s drama called The Boot Street Band.
In 1995, he landed his first significant role on a series called Bramwell, a medical drama set in 1890s England. He played a central character in an episode of Season 1, an African petty thief named Charlie Carter, who lost his wife to childbirth and had to figure out how to support his newborn daughter. He appeared on The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, filmed in Botswana, on March 23, 2008, receiving a high share of the audience of 27 million viewers. In 2005, he portrayed Captain Muganza in Sometimes in Sometimes, an HBO film about the Rwandan genocide. In 2007, he appeared on BET special Black Men: The Truth About Black Men. In 2011, he played Achilles in a episode of Troilus and Cressida in New York City. In 2012, he voiced Chief Bogo in Zootopia, Shere Khan in the live actionCGI adaptation of The Jungle Book, Fluke in Finding Dory, and played the role of Krall in Star Trek Beyond. In 2013, he starred in Pacific Rim, Beasts of No Nation, and Molly’s Game, for which he received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. After a supporting role on Law & Order, he had a starring role on HBO drama The Wire from 2002 to 2004.
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