Daniel Kaluuya

Daniel Kaluuya (/kəˈluːjə/; born 24 February 1989)[1] is a British actor and writer. Kaluuya began his acting career as a teenager in improvisational theatre.[2] He subsequently portrayed Posh Kenneth in the first two seasons of the television series Skins; he also co-wrote some of the episodes.[3] Kaluuya was particularly praised for his leading performance in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London and he won both the Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer.[4] In 2018, he received the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Kaluuya gained further notice for his performances as Michael “Tealeaf” Fry in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville, Michael “Mac” Armstrong in the BBC Three horror drama series The Fades, Barclay in the Doctor Who Easter special “Planet of the Dead” (2009), and Bingham “Bing” Madsen in the Black Mirror episode “Fifteen Million Merits”.[5] He appeared as Agent Colin Tucker in the 2011 spy action comedy film Johnny English Reborn and as Black Death in the 2013 superhero film Kick-Ass 2. In 2015, he had a supporting role in Denis Villeneuve’s thriller film Sicario.