Daniel Kaluuya

Known for ActingBorn 1989-02-24 (age 37)London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Great Performers: Horror Show

An Audience with Adele

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Chicken Shop Date

Black Mirror

All or Nothing: Arsenal

Skins

Cities: Nature's New Wild

Robot & Scarecrow

Get Out

A Christmas Carol

Lewis

10 Minute Tales

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

Sicario

Black Panther

Silent Witness

Judas and the Black Messiah

The Fades

Queen & Slim

Primetime

The Graham Norton Show

Hot Ones

Watership Down

Nope

Psychoville

FM

Babylon

Saturday Night Live

Widows

Kick-Ass 2

The Oscars

Golden Globe Awards

The Daily Show

Johnny English Reborn

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

Two Single Beds

Welcome to the Punch

Cass

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Chatroom

JAŸ-Z in 8

Jonah

Coming Up

Date Night

The Shop

Shoot the Messenger

Late Night with Seth Meyers