Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya (/kəˈluːjə/; born 24 February 1989) is a British actor and filmmaker. His work encompasses both screen and stage, and his accolades include an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2021, he was named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Kaluuya began his acting career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He played Posh Kenneth in the first two seasons of the television series Skins (2007–2009); he also co-wrote some of the episodes. Kaluuya drew praise for his leading performance in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. He went on to gain attention for his television roles in Psychoville (2009–2011), The Fades (2011), and the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" (2011). He also had supporting roles in the films Johnny English Reborn (2011), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), and Sicario (2015). In 2017, Kaluuya had his breakthrough starring in Jordan Peele's horror film Get Out, which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. This was followed by roles in Ryan Coogler's superhero film Black Panther (2018), Steve McQueen's crime drama Widows (2018), Peele's horror film Nope (2022), and Sony Pictures Animation's animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). For his portrayal of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in the biopic Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), he won the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since co-directed the drama The Kitchen (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Kaluuya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Hobie Brown (voice)
- 2022 · Sherri as Self - Guest
- 2022 · All or Nothing: Arsenal as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Nope as OJ Haywood
- 2021 · An Audience with Adele as Self
- 2021 · Black Power: A British Story of Resistance as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
- 2020 · A Christmas Carol as The Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
- 2020 · Two Single Beds as Jay
- 2019 · Queen & Slim as Slim
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2018 · Cities: Nature's New Wild as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Watership Down as Bluebell (voice)
- 2018 · Widows as Jatemme Manning
- 2018 · The Shop as Self
- 2018 · Black Panther as W'Kabi
- 2017 · Great Performers: Horror Show as The Psycho Killer
- 2017 · Pattern Recognition as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Robot & Scarecrow as The Man (voice)
- 2017 · Unveiling the Horror of Get Out as Self
- 2017 · Get Out as Chris Washington
- 2015 · Sicario as Reggie Wayne
- 2015 · Hot Ones as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as
- 2014 · Chicken Shop Date as Self - Guest
- 2014 · Babylon as Matt Coward
- 2014 · Date Night as Dave
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Kick-Ass 2 as Black Death
- 2013 · Welcome to the Punch as Juka Ogadowa
- 2013 · Jonah as Mbwana
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Bingham 'Bing' Madsen
- 2011 · The Fades as Mac Armstrong
- 2011 · Johnny English Reborn as Agent Colin Tucker
- 2011 · Random as Brother
- 2010 · Psychoville Halloween Special as Tealeaf
- 2010 · Chatroom as Mo
- 2010 · Baby as Damon
- 2009 · Psychoville as Tealeaf / Michael Fry
- 2009 · Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead as Barclay
- 2009 · FM as
- 2008 · Cass as Young Cass - age 14
- 2007 · Much Ado About a Minor Ting as Shocker
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 2007 · Skins as Posh Kenneth
- 2006 · Shoot the Messenger as Reece
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Barclay
- 2003 · Coming Up as Micah
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Silent Witness as Errol Harris
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- Future · Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Hobie Brown (voice)
- Future · The Upper World as
- Future · Untitled Barney the Dinosaur Film as