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Actor, director and producer
United Kingdom · b. 1976
British actor of Nigerian descent, the first Black actor to play an English king for the Royal Shakespeare Company, as Henry VI in 2001. He played Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma and Seretse Khama in A United Kingdom, and has since worked as a director and producer.
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Any lasting relationship needs non-negotiables. We made the decision early on never to be apart for longer than two weeks: 26 years married and we’ve only broken that rule once, by 11 hours, when my wife was in Sleepy Hollow. If I ever meet [director] Tim Burton, I’ll be having words.
Recorded The Observer / The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗
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