Idris Elba

Also Credited As:

Idrissa Akuna Elba, DJ Big Driis
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Biography

British-born actor Idris Elba mesmerized American television viewers on three seasons of HBO's gold-standard crime drama, "The Wire" (2002-08), playing Stringer Bell, a brilliant, Machiavellian cocaine entrepreneur aspiring to evolve his operation into real estate and citywide power-brokering. The career-defining role catapult Elba from obscure British actor to international acclaim as one of Hollywood's most wanted men. Also a singer and …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer, Music

Born

Idrissa Akuna Elba on September 6, 1972 in London, England, GB

LATEST CREDITS

Sometimes in April

Augustin Muganza

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Legacy

Malcolm Gray

Luther

DCI John Luther

25 to Life

Samuel

No Good Deed

Actor

Obsessed

Derek Charles

The Gospel

Reverend Charles Frank

Ball Don't Lie

Dante

The Human Contract

Larry

The Dark Tower

Walter

Pacific Rim

Stacker Pentecost

Ultraviolet

Vaughan Rice

Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

Monty

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D

Moreau

RocknRolla

Mumbles

This Christmas

Quentin Whitfield

One Love

Aaron

The Losers

Roque

The Reaping

Ben

Prometheus

Janek

Thor: The Dark World

Heimdall

All in the Game

Paul

Takers

Gordon Jennings

2005 Black Movie Awards

Performer