Daniel Kaluuya (born 24 February 1989)[1] is a British actor and writer.[2] Kaluuya began his career as a teenager in improvisational theatre.[3] He subsequently appeared in the first two seasons of the British television series Skins, in which he co-wrote some of the episodes.[4] 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.[5]
He played Michael “Tealeaf” Fry in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville and Michael “Mac” Armstrong in the BBC Three horror drama series The Fades.[6] He gained further acclaim for his performance as Bingham “Bing” Madsen in the Black Mirror episode “Fifteen Million Merits“. 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 a nomination for the Academy Award 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.[7] He received acclaim for his portrayal of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah.
