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Daniel Kaluuya

Daniel Kaluuya

Birthday: 1989-02-24 | Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Daniel Kaluuya (born 24 February 1989) is an English actor and writer. Kaluuya began his career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He subsequently appeared in the first two seasons of the British television series Skins, in which he co-wrote some of the episodes. Playing the lead role in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London, Kaluuya was particularly praised for his performance and he won both the Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer. He gained further acclaim for his performance as Bingham "Bing" Madsen in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits". He then played Michael "Tealeaf" Fry in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville and Michael "Mac" Armstrong in the BBC Three horror drama series The Fades. Kaluuya appeared as Agent Colin Tucker in the 2011 film Johnny English Reborn and portrayed Black Death in the 2013 film Kick-Ass 2. In 2015, he had a supporting role in Denis Villeneuve's film Sicario. In 2017 Kaluuya starred in Get Out which garnered him an Academy Award Nomination for Best Actor. In 2018, he portrayed W'Kabi in Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster film Black Panther and appeared in Steve McQueen's heist film Widows. He has been nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his leading role as Chris Washington in the 2017 horror film Get Out. In 2018, he won the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Judas and the Black Messiah

as    Fred Hampton

2021
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2020
Two Single Beds

as    Jay

2020
A Christmas Carol

as    The Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)

2019
Queen & Slim

as    Slim

2018
Watership Down

as    Bluebell (voice)

2018
Widows

as    Jatemme Manning

2018
Cities: Nature's New Wild

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2018
Black Panther

as    W'Kabi

2017
Get Out

as    Chris Washington

2015
Sicario

as    Reggie Wayne

2013
Welcome to the Punch

as    Juka Ogadowa

2013
Jonah

as    Mbwana

2011
Johnny English Reborn

as    Agent Colin Tucker

2011
The Fades

as    Mac Armstrong

2010
Chatroom

as    Mo

2009
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

as    Barclay

2009
Psychoville

as    Tealeaf / Michael Fry

2008
Cass

as    Young Cass - age 14