Portrait of Kingsley Ben-Adir

Kingsley Ben-Adir

Acting

Biography

Kingsley Ben-Adir (born 20 November 1986) is a British actor. His credits include playing pathologist Marcus Summer in ITV's Vera (2014–2018), private detective Karim Washington on Netflix's The OA (2019), Colonel Ben Younger in the BBC drama Peaky Blinders (2017–2019), and Gravik in the superhero miniseries Secret Invasion (2023). He starred as Malcolm X in the Amazon Studios film One Night in Miami... (2020), for which he won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performer, and as Bob Marley in Bob Marley: One Love (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kingsley Ben-Adir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: November 20, 1986

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Filmography

2024
2023
Barbie

as Ken

2023
2020
2020
Soulmates

as Franklin

2020
The Comey Rule

as Barack Obama

2020
Love Life

as Grant

2020
High Fidelity

as Russell 'Mac' McCormack

2019
Noelle

as Jake Hapman

2019
Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

2018
The Commuter

as Agent Garcia

2017
Diana and I

as Russell

2017
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

as Tristan "Wet Stick"

2016
The OA

as Karim Washington

2016
2013
Peaky Blinders

as Col Ben Younger

2011
Death in Paradise

as Irie Johnson

2011
Vera

as Marcus Summer

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Bartholomew Hines

1953
The Oscars

as Self - Performer