british actor

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ( ; born 22 August 1967 ) is an english actor, director, and erstwhile fashion model known for his roles as Simon Adebisi in Oz, Lock-Nah in The Mummy Returns, Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity, Kurse in Thor: The Dark World, Killer Croc in Suicide Squad, Mr. Eko in Lost, Malko in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, [ 1 ] and Dave Duerson in the NFL biopic drama Concussion. [ 2 ] Akinnuoye-Agbaje ‘s feature directorial introduction, Farming, [ 3 ] wrapped production in 2017 [ 4 ] and had its populace premier at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. [ 5 ]

early life and education [edit ]

Akinnuoye-Agbaje was born in Islington, London, to nigerian parents of Yoruba origin, who were students in the UK. When he was six weeks old, his biological parents gave him up to a white propertyless family in Tilbury, Essex. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] His foster parents had at least ten african children, including Akinnuoye-Agbaje ‘s two sisters, living in their house at certain points. His foster beget made a survive as a lorry driver and struggled to support the kin financially. [ 7 ]
Akinnuoye-Agbaje at a Red Cross benefit at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, 28 February 2007 When he was eight years old, his biological parents brought him second to Nigeria but, as he was ineffective to speak the Yoruba language and prevent by his parents to speak English, he was returned to Tilbury concisely thereafter. The abbreviated exposure to Nigeria left him struggling to reconcile his inheritance with the distinctly british culture and environment he was raised in. As a new boy, facing a cultural identity crisis, he joined a local anesthetic skinhead gang in arrange to escape racial persecution at their hands. At 16 years previous, having become a thief, his foster parents sent him to a boarding educate in Surrey where he ultimately attempted suicide before coming to terms with his background and turning his life about. [ 7 ] He went on to earn a law academic degree from King ‘s College London and a Masters in Law from the University of London at big. While a university student, Akinnuoye-Agbaje worked in a clothes shop where he was introduced to the universe of model .

career [edit ]

Akinnuoye-Agbaje ‘s modelling career led him to Hollywood, where he began his acting career with a 1995 role in Congo. [ 7 ] His best-known acting roles have been as the imposing convict Simon Adebisi in the 1990s HBO prison series Oz and as Mr. Eko on ABC ‘s survivor drama Lost. [ 7 ] Film roles include The Bourne Identity, in which he played a depose african authoritarian, Hitu the patrol officer in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Lock-Nah in The Mummy Returns, and Heavy Duty in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. [ 8 ] He was besides featured in the video for singer-songwriter Grayson Hugh ‘s reach “ talk It Over ”, which was in heavy rotation in 1989 on MTV and VH-1. In 2009, Akinnuoye-Agbaje was in talks with Marvel Studios to play the superhero Black Panther in a proposed film of the lapp list. In an interview, he stated his excitement about the possibility, saying that “ the time is sol right ” for a black superhero, and “ while I ‘m in my prime, this is the time … I ‘m going to keep knocking on their door. ” In 2014 Marvel did announce a Black Panther film, though with Chadwick Boseman in the deed character. [ 9 ] He guest starred in the second episode of temper 8 of Monk, and played Derek Jameson in the 2011 film The Thing. [ 10 ] He portrayed Kurse in the Marvel Studios film Thor: The Dark World. [ 11 ] He portrayed the character Malko in the fifth season of Game of Thrones. [ 1 ] [ 12 ] In 2015 it was reported that Akinnuoye-Abaje voices the lead character of Bilal, a movie about the life of Bilal Ibn Rabah set to be released in the moment one-half of the year. [ 13 ] In 2016, he co-starred in the DC Comics film Suicide Squad, as the Batman villain Killer Croc. [ 14 ]

Directing career [edit ]

In 2012, Akinnuoye-Agbaje stated that he had been developing a film about his life history, which he besides planned to direct. [ 15 ] The film is called Farming, in reference book to the drill of nigerian parents “ farming out ” their children to white UK families. In May 2017, he announced that casting on the film had begun with Damson Idris in the lead function as Enitan, Kate Beckinsale playing his abusive, inattentive foster mother and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as his teacher and mentor. [ 6 ] [ 16 ]

personal life [edit ]

Akinnuoye-Agbaje lives in Los Angeles. He is a Nichiren Buddhist [ 17 ] and a member of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist association. [ 18 ] Akinnuoye-Agbaje asked to be written off Lost, citing a desire to return to London after his foster parents ‘ deaths and to direct a film there. [ 19 ] He is a assistant of Arsenal F.C. [ 20 ]

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