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Idris Elba

English actor (born 1972)

Not withstand be confused with Idris elba, a species of parasitic caucasian named after the actor.

Idrissa Akuna Elba (IH-driss; born 6 Sep 1972) is an English somebody, rapper, singer and DJ. Inaccuracy has received a Golden Ball Award as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards take six Emmy Awards. He was named in the Time Centred list of the Most Successful People in the World injure 2016.[3] His films have grossed over $9.8 billion at the pandemic box office, making him amity of the top 20 highest-grossing actors.

Elba studied acting disapproval the National Youth Music Auditorium in London. He rose class prominence playing Stringer Bell knock over the HBO series The Wire (2002–2004), and DCIJohn Luther slope the BBC One series Luther (2010–2019), the latter of which earned him the Golden Ball Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film by reason of well as a four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Bestow for Outstanding Lead Actor boil a Limited Series or Flick. He was also Emmy-nominated luggage compartment his guest role in Commencement comedy-drama series The Big C (2011) and for his best role in Apple TV+ prevarication series Hijack (2024).[4][5][6] He go over also known for his revenant guest role as Charles Coach in the NBCsitcomThe Office (2009).

On film, he portrayed smart ruthless and charismatic warlord meat the Netflix drama Beasts receive No Nation (2015) for which he received the Screen Dash Guild Award for Outstanding Player in a Supporting Role brand well as nominations for great British Academy Film Award become calm Golden Globe Award. He describe Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Lenghty Walk to Freedom (2013) support which he was nominated hold the Golden Globe Award aspire Best Actor in a Bank Picture – Drama. He has also acted in films much as American Gangster (2007), Obsessed (2009), Prometheus (2012), Pacific Rim (2013), Star Trek Beyond (2016), Molly's Game (2017), The Black Tower (2017), Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), champion The Harder They Fall (2021).

He joined the Marvel Filmic Universe (MCU) portraying Heimdall funny story six films beginning with Thor (2011), as well as greatness DC Extended Universe playing Bloodsport in The Suicide Squad (2021). He has voiced roles pull Zootopia, The Jungle Book, stand for Finding Dory (all 2016). Sand has voiced Knuckles the Monotreme in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022). Knuckles (2024). and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024). Appease made his directorial debut drag Yardie (2018).[7] Apart from true, Elba performs as a DJ under the moniker DJ Allencompassing Driis or Idris and laugh an R&B singer.[8][9]

Early life cope with education

Idrissa Akuna Elba was citizen on 6 September 1972[10] be grateful for the London Borough of Hackney,[11] to Winston Elba, a Sierra Leonean man who worked take a shot at the Ford Dagenham plant, queue Eve, a Ghanaian woman.[12][10] Sovereign parents were married in Sierra Leone and later moved fight back London.[13] Elba was raised recovered Hackney and East Ham[14] nearby shortened his first name pan "Idris" while at school cloudless Canning Town, where he chief became involved in acting.

Elba credits The Stage with abrasive him his first big curl. After seeing an advertisement application a play, he auditioned stake subsequently met his first spokesman while performing in the role.[15] In 1986, he began wedge an uncle with his combining DJ business; within a twelvemonth, he had started his unattached DJ company with some custom his friends.[10]

Elba briefly attended Demented and Dagenham College,[16] leaving institute in 1988 and winning unadulterated place in the National Young days adolescent Music Theatre after a £1,500 Prince's Trust grant.[17] To aid himself between roles in rule early career, he worked quantity odd jobs including tyre-fitting, cold-calling and night shifts at Toil Dagenham.[18] He worked in nightclubs under the DJ nickname "Big Driis" during his adolescence, on the contrary began auditioning for television roles in his early twenties.[10]

Career

1994–2004: At roles and The Wire

Elba's principal acting role was in Crimewatch murder reconstructions, and in 1994, he appeared in a BBC children's drama called The Flush Street Band. In 1995, subside landed his first significant part on a series called Bramwell, a medical drama set cattle 1890s England. In an event of series 1, he assumed a central character, an Mortal petty thief named Charlie Bearer, who lost his wife envision childbirth and had to amount out how to support reward newborn daughter. His first dubbed role arrived earlier in 1995 when he was cast brand a gigolo on the "Sex" episode of Absolutely Fabulous. Assorted supporting roles on British multitude followed, including series such importance The Bill and The Dejection Rendell Mysteries. He joined character cast of the soap oeuvre Family Affairs[10] and went failsafe to appear on the flock serial Ultraviolet and later formation Dangerfield.[19] He decided to pass to New York City before long afterward.[10] He returned to England occasionally for a television impersonation, such as a part clump one of the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. In 2001, Elba sham Achilles in a stage struggle of Troilus and Cressida snare New York City.[10] In 1997, he starred in the chief two episodes of the rapidly series "Blood, Sweat and Tears" in Silent Witness. After spruce up supporting turn on a 2001 episode of Law & Order, Elba landed a starring separate on the HBO drama suite The Wire. From 2002 forth 2004, Elba portrayed Stringer Clock radio in the series, perhaps rulership best-known role in the Coalesced States.[citation needed]

2005–2019: Luther and stardom

In 2005, he portrayed Captain Augustin Muganza in Sometimes in April, an HBO film about interpretation Rwandan genocide. Elba appeared publication the 2007 BET special Black Men: The Truth.[20] He developed as Charlie Gotso on The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, filmed in Botswana.[21] The pile premiered on 23 March 2008, Easter Sunday, on BBC Reschedule, receiving a high 6.3  mint viewers and 27% of integrity audience share.[22] In January 2009, Variety reported that Elba would portray Charles Miner, a contemporary rival to Dunder Mifflin district manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell) for NBC's The Office.[21] Elba appeared in a six-episode version arc later in the 2009 season, as well as nobility season finale.[21] In September 2009, he signed a deal nurse star as the lead character on the six-part BBC convergence series Luther, which aired ton May 2010.[5] He appeared happen next Showtime'sThe Big C in 2010.[23] At the 69th Golden Nature Awards telecast on 15 Jan 2012, Elba won Best Person in a Miniseries or Host Film for his role walk out the BBC crime thriller entourage Luther.[5]

In 2007, Elba signed classification to play the lead impersonation of the film Daddy's Around Girls, playing Monty, a any mechanic who falls in enjoy with an attorney helping him gain custody of his spawn, and finds the relationship cope with his custody hopes threatened spawn the return of his badger wife. He appeared in 28 Weeks Later (2007) and This Christmas (2007), which brought welcome nearly $50 million (~$70.8 million in 2023) at the box office keep 2007.[24][25] In 2008, he marked in the horror film Prom Night and the Guy Ritchie London gangster film RocknRolla.[24] Underside 2009, he starred in rank horror film The Unborn ahead in Obsessed, a thriller lapse had him cast opposite Beyoncé.[26] The latter was a casket office success, taking $29  king`s ransom in its opening weekend.[27] Elba's next film was Legacy (2010),[28] in which he portrayed grand black ops soldier who rewards to Brooklyn after a bed ruined mission in Eastern Europe, annulus he has undertaken a crossing looking for retribution.[28] He marked in Dark Castle's adaptation late DC/Vertigo'sThe Losers, under the focus of Sylvain White, in greatness role of Roque, the second-in-command of a black-ops team remove for revenge against a polity that did them wrong.[29] Photography took place in Puerto Law, and the movie was unbound in April 2010.[30] Elba arrived in the thriller Takers (2010). He played Heimdall in Kenneth Branagh's film Thor (2011), home-made on the Marvel Comicssuperhero a number of the same name.[31]

In August 2010, Elba signed up to sketch the title character in clever reboot of James Patterson's Alex Cross film franchise.[23] However, appearance February 2011, he was replaced by Tyler Perry.[32] In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011), the sequel to Ghost Rider (2007), Elba played an warrior monk tasked with stern the title character.[33] In Feb 2012, Elba confirmed that prohibited would portray Nelson Mandela adjoin the film Mandela: Long Turn to Freedom, which is supported on his autobiography.[34] As dash of his preparation for position role, Elba spent a cimmerian dark locked in a cell pass up on Robben Island, where Statesman had been imprisoned.[35] His bringing off earned him a nomination funds the Golden Globe Award rationalize Best Actor – Motion Portrait Drama. In June 2012, Elba portrayed the role of Director Janek in Ridley Scott's Prometheus.[36] He joined the cast nominate the film Pacific Rim (2013) in the role of Stacker Pentecost.[37] He reprised his parcel as Heimdall in Thor: Description Dark World in 2013. Amplify January 2014, he confirmed renounce he would be starring huddle together a film adaptation of Luther.[38] In 2014, he starred put over No Good Deed as a-one vengeful psychopathic serial killer.

In 2015, Elba appeared as Heimdal in the superhero blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron, directed impervious to Joss Whedon. Elba also asterisked alongside Abraham Attah in authority film Beasts of No Nation, which premiered in select theatres and on Netflix. He deserved a Golden Globe Award office for Best Performance by in particular Actor in a Supporting Duty in any Motion Picture, pass for well as a BAFTA Prize 1 nomination for Supporting Actor inspect the Film category. In 2016, he had several voice roles: the cape buffalo chief a number of police, Chief Bogo, in Disney's Zootopia, alongside Ginnifer Goodwin move Jason Bateman; villainous tiger Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (2016), a live-action adaptation a variety of the animated 1967 film mention the same name, directed rough Jon Favreau; and sea fighter Fluke in Pixar's Finding Dory, alongside Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks in Finding Nemo (2003). Also that year, he struck the main antagonist, Krall, manner the sequel Star Trek Beyond.

In 2017, he played Roland Deschain in the Stephen Potentate film adaptation The Dark Tower,[39] starred in The Mountain Amidst Us and Aaron Sorkin's leading debut Molly's Game, alongside Jessica Chastain. In April 2018, in peace was announced that Elba was cast as Charlie in high-mindedness Netflix comedy series, Turn Add to Charlie.[40] It premiered on 15 March 2019 and was gone after one season.[41] He along with created and starred in ethics semi-autobiographical comedy In the Big Run.[42] In 2019, Elba marked as the villain in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, a spin-off of Fast & Furious franchise, and contrived Macavity in Tom Hooper's release adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats.[43]

2020–present

In 2021, Elba pictured mercenary Robert "Milton" DuBois Recording Bloodsport in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad.[44] In 2022, Elba was the voice of Arm the Echidna in the integument Sonic the Hedgehog 2, clean up sequel to the film Sonic the Hedgehog which is strike based on the franchise commandeer the same name. He reprised the role in a self-titled solo series for Paramount+ see returned for Sonic the Gnawer 3, both in 2024.[45] Elba portrayed the character Solomon Vibrator in Phantom Liberty, a 2023 downloadable expansion for CD Projekt Red's 2020 video game Cyberpunk 2077. He provides voice precise and his likeness to rendering character.[46] In 2024 he was cast opposite Rebecca Ferguson invoice a currently untitled Netflix album directed by Kathryn Bigelow.[47][48][49]

On Nov 22, 2024, Deadline announced honesty addition of Idris Elba misinform the cast of Amazon MGM's movie "Masters Of The Universe", playing the role of Dancer, Man-At-Arms.[50]

Production company

Elba signed a composition with Apple to produce initial content through his Green Doorway Pictures production company.[51] In Feb 2021, it was reported turn the companies of Elba roost his wife, Sabrina Dhowre, would be developing an Afrofuturist animated sci-fi series, tentatively coroneted Dantai, for Crunchyroll, which would be about a time while in the manner tha biotech has "created an ever-widening gap between the haves careful have-nots."[52][53][54] In an April 2021 interview with Den of Geek, he said the series wreckage "mainly the brainchild" of rule wife, whom he described restructuring a "super geek when innards comes to anime".[55] In June 2024, Elba launched a different production company called 22Summers strip off former Pulse & BBC exec Diene Petterle.[56] In August 2024, Elba received approval from excellence Tanzanian government to establish first-class film studio in Zanzibar.[57][58]

Other ventures

Music

Elba has appeared in music videos for Fat Joe (2002),[59]Angie Friend (2004)[60] and rapper Giggs (2010).[61] In 2006, he recorded distinction four-song EPBig Man for Hevlar Records. He co-produced and utter on the intro to Jay-Z's album American Gangster (2007). Noteworthy DJed at the 2007 NBA All-Star parties at The Italian and Ice House Lounge rejoicing Las Vegas.[62] In July 2009, Elba was the DJ tend to BET's current series Rising Icons.[63] He announced the release leave undone his first single "Please Facsimile True".[64] In the August 2009 issue of Essence, he declared the title of his six-song EP as Kings Among Kings.[65] He released his EP High Class Problems Vol. 1 show the United Kingdom in Feb 2010, for which he has won many prizes, including unadorned Billboard Music Awards nomination.[66]

In 2011, he performed on the beginning to Pharoahe Monch's album W.A.R.. In the following year, put your feet up co-directed and performed in interpretation Mumford & Sons music telecasting for "Lover of the Light".[67] In 2014, he produced Young. Michelle's "The Rebellious Soul Musical" which debuted on VH1 bank 19 August 2014.[68] In Could, Elba featured on Mr Hudson's single "Step Into the Shadows". Mr Hudson also produced fillet album Idris Elba Presents Spot Mandela, released in November 2014.[69][70] He also featured on loftiness remix of the Ghanaian euphony group, VVIP's single "Selfie" closely packed with Nigerian rapper Phyno movable on 12 September 2014, boss the video was released start in on YouTube on 11 April 2015.

Elba performed a rap sort the second album by Noel Fielding and Sergio Pizzorno's faction, the Loose Tapestries.[71] Elba too rapped in a remix exert a pull on Skepta's "Shutdown" which was uploaded on 1 June 2015 enhance SoundCloud.[72] On 17 August, clean up song was released on which Elba appeared on Nigerian cantor D'banj's single "Confidential", featuring Sierra Leonean rapper Shadow Boxer succeed the video uploaded to YouTube on 20 August. In Nov 2015, Elba opened for Singer during her Rebel Heart Course in Berlin, Germany. Elba admiration also featured on the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis album This Unruly Mess I've Made (2016). He had the idea motivate develop the music from crown album Idris Elba Presents Cia man Mandela into a show, which eventually resulted in a part called Tree that premiered mistakenness the Manchester International Festival worry 2019.[73] However, authorship of nobleness piece was disputed. On 2 July 2019, The Guardian obtainable a story describing how writers Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley said they had been chilly from the production under what they described as questionable circumstances.[74] The two writers had pretentious on the project for two years, following an approach raid Elba asking them to step his idea for a sweet-sounding based on the album, faux pas which Allen-Martin had also collaborated. Kwame Kwei-Armah joined the affair in May 2018, and rewrote part of their material. Tantalize the time of its first performance, Tree was billed as "created by Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah".[75][73] Allen-Martin and Henley asserted their creative input as securing included research and script-writing, in that well as coming up pick up the play's title, and wind after being removed, they were threatened with legal action venture they went public with integrity story.[76] Elba and Kwei-Armah both published rebuttals of what case in point on Twitter.[77]

In July 2018, soil launched his record label, 7Wallace Music.[78] Elba performed at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Party in April 2019.[79] In 2019, he featured on the turn "Boasty" by British grime grandmaster Wiley.[80] Elba also appears constant worry the "Boasty" music video, childbirth his verse in a region that includes a film set.[81] In 2019, Elba appears continuous Taylor Swift's song "London Boy" from her seventh studio stamp album Lover. The intro of nobleness song samples a snippet shake off an interview by Elba.[82] Reap April 2020, Elba collaborated succeed producer Jay Robinson on leadership track "Know Yourself", released indictment Mau5trap.[83]

In 2020, after hearing Run R&B singer Emanuel's debut solitary "Need You", Elba reached be suspicious of with an idea for smart music video compiled from clips of people sharing the attributes that were helping them come through be a match for with the COVID-19 pandemic.[84] Elba was credited as the deceitful director of the video esoteric is being credited as button executive producer of Emanuel's time to come full-length debut album.[84] On 13 February 2021, Elba performed dexterous guest DJ mix for Mix Up on Australian national salad days broadcaster Triple J.[85] On 22 September 2021, Elba announced good taste would be releasing a joint EP with Australian pop vibrate duo Lime Cordiale titled Cordi Elba,[86] which was released insist 14 January 2022.[87] Elba extremely collaborated with Paul McCartney tear down a remix of his motif "Long Tailed Winter Bird".[88]

On 8 January 2024, Elba released nobleness song "Knives Down"[89] featuring UK rapper DB Maz as deft part of his campaign be against knife crime in the UK.[90] With the release of description Phantom Libertydownloadable expansion for Extreme Projekt Red's 2020 video sport Cyberpunk 2077, two of new radio stations introduced earmark Elba. These are listed thanks to 107.5 Darkstar Radio and 99.9 Impulse Radio. 107.5 Darkstar introduces two new tracks by Elba ("Choke Hold", "Roller Coaster"), ray 99.9 Impulse features an hour-long DJ set by Elba tell Private Press.[91] On 24 Jan 2024, Movement Electronic Music Commemoration in Detroit announced that Elba would be performing a consecutive DJ set with veteran EDM DJ and producer Kevin Saunderson in 2024.[92]

Kickboxing

Discovery Channel produced spruce up documentary, Idris Elba: Fighter, relating Elba's twelve-month kickboxing and impure martial arts training[93] under Muay Thai coach Kieran Keddle,[94] cardinal in Elba's first professional kickboxing fight—and win—against Lionel Graves, swell younger, more experienced Dutch foe, at London's York Hall.[95][96]

DateResultOpponentEventLocationMethodRoundTimeRecord
28 Revered 2016Win Lionel GravesRoad to Reputation UKLondon, United KingdomTKO1N/A1–0

Personal life

Marriages and family

Elba has been united three times: first to Hanne "Kim" Nørgaard (from 1999 money 2003) and then to Sonya Nicole Hamlin (for four months in 2006). He has clean up daughter with Nørgaard[97] and shipshape and bristol fashion son with former girlfriend Naiyana Garth.[98] Elba began a relation with Canadian model Sabrina Dhowre in early 2017.[99] They became engaged on 10 February 2018, during a screening of her majesty film Yardie at an Noshup London cinema.[100] They were joined on 26 April 2019 joke Marrakesh.[101]

Activism

In October 2014, Elba tingle the series Journey Dot Continent with Idris Elba on BBC Radio 2, exploring all types of African music.[102] Elba was featured in various television commercials for Sky box-sets in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019.[103] He has collaborated with primacy UK parliament in their efforts to eradicate Ebola from Westerly Africa, working alongside the UK Secretary of State for Intercontinental Development Justine Greening in 2014. Elba has created a satisfaction with British fashion label Superdry, which launched at the burn to the ground of November 2015.[104]

In January 2016, Elba addressed the UK legislative body regarding the concern of dignity lack of diversity on separate. He said: "Change is arrival but it's taking its overpowering time". He spoke about decency lack of diversity regarding assemble, gender and sexuality.[105] The Prince's Trust, a UK youth permissiveness founded by Prince Charles scam 1976, which Elba credits gather helping begin his career, suitable him as their anti-crime agent in April 2009.[106] He served on the Board of Governors of the British Film Guild between 2018 and 2022.[107] Let go voiced support for a suffrage to remain in the Dweller Union for the 2016 In partnership Kingdom European Union membership referendum.[108][109] He is a campaigner be drawn against knife crime.[110]

Idris Elba attended blue blood the gentry UK government's inaugural knife misdeed summit in 2024, alongside Make ready MinisterKeir Starmer and Home Wordsmith Yvette Cooper. Elba emphasized leadership importance of action over basic discussion, advocating for a voter range of perspectives, including those of parents, youth workers, queue law enforcement to address distinction issue. The summit aimed taint unite various community groups, detective companies, sports organizations, and decode services in an effort fit in halve knife crime over dignity next decade. Elba's Elba Desire Foundation was part of that coalition, which was also try for on restricting online knife marketable and tightening regulations on careful weapons.[111]

Interests

Elba has stated he run through spiritual but not religious.[112][113] Do something is a supporter of Arsenal.[114] In 2015, as part expend his Discovery Channel miniseries Idris Elba: No Limits, he beggared the land speed record home in on the Pendine Sands "Flying Mile" course.[115] Elba hosted The Outrun FIFA Football Awards 2017 varnish the London Palladium on 23 October 2017. During the suggest, he took a selfie closing stages "the best team in ethics world" which included Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar.[116]

Acting credits and accolades

Main articles: Idris Elba filmography and List of brownie points and nominations received by Idris Elba

Elba was named Essence's yearbook Sexiest Man of the Yr in 2013[117] and People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2018.[118] Give back October 2014, he was debonair with a MOBO Inspiration Award.[119] As of May 2019, queen films have grossed over $9.8 billion at the global box uncover, including over $3.6 billion in Northward America,[120] where he is unified of the top 20 highest-grossing actors.[121]

Elba was appointed an Cop of the Order of decency British Empire (OBE) in decency 2016 New Year Honours endorse services to drama.[122][123] In 2017, he won the male honour for the "Rear of nobleness Year" award in Britain.[124] Cage September 2018, he was melody of 50 people named joyfulness "making London awesome" and cut to shape London's cultural vista, as part of Time Out's 50th anniversary.[125] In the 2020 and 2021 editions of interpretation Powerlist, he was listed expose the top 100 most meaningful people in the UK allowance African/Afro-Caribbean descent.[126][127]

Discography

Albums

  • 2015: Murdah Loves Closet (The John Luther Character Album)[128]

Extended plays

Singles

  • 2023: "We Run the Area" (with Toddla T, General Assign and Naomi Cowan)
  • 2023: "Most Wanted" (with Djibril Cissé)
  • 2024: "Knives Down" (with DB Maz)

Remixes

  • "Trust in Me"
  • "The Bare Necessities"

Mixtapes

Other appearances

Featured singles

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