DeObia Oparei

DeObia Oparei (born 7 December 1971) is an English actor and playwright. He is best known for his roles as the Gunner in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Rongo in Dumbo (2019), and as Boastful Loki in Loki (2021).

Oparei began his career working for various British theatre companies, like The Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Youth Theatre.[2] Oparei’s film debut was a small supporting role in Alien 3. After playing the lead role of American playwright John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation, Oparei scored his next supporting film role, as “Le Chocolat”, in the Baz Luhrmann film Moulin Rouge!. In 1993, he appeared in an episode of the popular British television series Minder as ‘Winston’, a worker for Arthur Daley.

Operai moved to Sydney, Australia in 1995,[3] where he co-hosted the regular night ‘Magic’ upstairs at Kinselas with Basil,[4] and performed Operai’s ‘’Queen bitch rap’’ in cLUB bENT at The Performance Space, with Darren Spowart and Matthew Bergin