Kingsley Ben-Adir
Kingsley Ben-Adir is a British television, film, and stage actor. He has performed in several plays in London theatres. He plays pathologist Marcus Summer in ITV's detective drama Vera and private detective Karim Washington on the second season of the Netflix series The OA.[1][2]
Education
Ben-Adir attended William Ellis School in Gospel Oak, Northwest London.[citation needed] He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011.[3]
Career
In 2011, Ben-Adir performed in Gillian Slovo's critically acclaimed sell-out play The Riots at the Tricycle Theatre.[4]
In 2012, he played Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
In 2013, he played Borachio in Mark Rylance's production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic in London and also played in God's Property at the Soho Theatre.[5][6]
In 2014, Ben-Adir performed in the play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 at the Bush Theatre in London.[7][8][9] The play received positive reviews.[10]
Ben-Adir plays Sampson in Adam Smith's British crime drama Trespass Against Us starring Michael Fassbender and Sir Tristan "Wet Stick" in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
Filmography
Film
- World War Z (uncredited)
- City Slacker
- Trespass Against Us[11]
- King Arthur: Legend of the Sword[12]
- The Commuter
- Noelle
- The Photograph
Television
- Agatha Christie's Marple A Caribbean Mystery
- Vera 2014–2016, 2018 [13]
- Midsomer Murders[12]
- Peaky Blinders (BBC) - Colonel Youngers
- Deep State (TV, UK) 2018
- The OA (Netflix) 2019
- A Higher Loyalty (TBA) TBA
References
- ↑ "Review: Vera, ITV, 8pm Sunday ". The Journal.
- ↑ "Vera, series six, episode one, review: 'rescued by Blethyn'". The Telegraph, Gerard O'Donovan 31 January 2016
- ↑ http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/acting/final_year_actors/third_year_actors_2010_11/kingsley_ben_adir/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com › Arts › Stage › Theatre
- ↑ "Love and Acceptance in ‘God's Property’". The Platform, Dornett Roachford, March 21, 2013
- ↑ "God's Property, Soho Theatre - review". Evening Standard, 27 February 2013.
- ↑ "We Are Proud to Present… review – 'A Pirandellian take on a little-known genocide'". The Guardian. Michael Billington, 5 March 2014
- ↑ "We Are Proud to Present, theatre review. Bush Theatre, London". The Independent, Paul Taylor 10 March 2014
- ↑ "We Are Proud To Present… at Bush Theatre takes your breath away". Metro, Siobhan Murphy. Friday 7 Mar 2014
- ↑ "Review: ‘We Are Proud to present…’". What's On - Africa, March 20, 2014
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- ↑ "New stars coming to ITV's Vera". June 10, 2014 OntheBox .
External links
- Kingsley Ben-Adir at the Internet Movie DatabaseLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- English people of Moroccan descent
- 21st-century English male actors
- Black English male actors
- Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- English male stage actors
- English male film actors
- English male television actors
- English male video game actors
