Idris Elba

Acting · Born 1972-09-06 · Hackney, London, England, UK

Biography

Idris Elba (born September 6, 1972) is a British television, theatre, and film actor who has starred in both British and American productions. One of his first acting roles was in the soap opera Family Affairs. Since then he has worked in a variety of TV and movie projects including Ultraviolet, The Wire, No Good Deed and Zootopia.

Known for

• Children of Blood and Bone (2027)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (2027)
• Above the Below (2026)
• Masters of the Universe (2026)
• Heads of State (2025)
• A House of Dynamite (2025)
• Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis (2025)
• Victory (2025)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
• Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
• Extraction 2 (2023)
• Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba (2023)
• Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
• Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
• Beast (2022)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
• An Audience with Adele (2021)
• 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2021)
• The Suicide Squad (2021)
• The Harder They Fall (2021)
• Passion Project (2021)
• Concrete Cowboy (2020)
• Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney (2020)
• One World: Together at Home (2020)