Background[]
Biography[]
Personal Life[]
Filmography[]
- Red Shoe Diaries (1994) 1 episode
- New York Undercover (1995) 1 episode
- Delta of Venus (1995)
- Congo (1995)
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
- Deadly Voyage (1996)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
- Cracker: Mind Over Murder (1997) 1 episode
- Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1997) 1 episode
- Oz (1997-00) 32 episodes
- Linc's (1998)
- Legionnaire (1998)
- Red Shoe Diaries 12: Girl on a Bike (2000)
- Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (2000)
- The Mummy Returns (2001)
- Lip Service (2001)
- The Bourne Identity (2002)
- Unstoppable (2004)
- Black/Blue (2005)
- The Mistress of Spices (2005)
- Preaching to the Choir (2005)
- Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
- Lost (2005-06) 28 episodes
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
- Monk (2009) 1 episode
- Faster (2010)
- Killer Elite (2011)
- Strike Back (2011) 2 episodes
- The Thing (2011)
- Best Laid Plans (2012)
- Bullet to the Head (2012)
- Hunted (2012) 8 episodes
- The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- Pompeii (2014)
- Annie (2014)
- Game of Thrones (2015) 1 episode
- Trumbo (2015)
- Odyssey (2015)
- Bilal (2015)
- Concussion (2015)
- Suicide Squad (2016)
- Tangled: The Series (2017-?) 6 episodes
Trivia[]
- He is fluent in several languages including Italian, Yoruba, Swahili, and English. He can "get along" in a few other languages, including French.
- The son of immigrants from Nigeria, he has played almost entirely African characters despite having been born and raised in England. He usually employs a deep, Nigerian timber while acting, while off-screen he has a very British, somewhat Cockney accent.
- Appears in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Cinematic Universe with roles in Thor: The Dark World and Suicide Squad.
Quotes[]
- The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.