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Read reviews, watch trailers and clips, find showtimes, view celebrity photos and more on MSN Movies. Provides cast and crew, storyline and awards of the biographical film about Nelson Mandela, from childhood to his inauguration as the first democratically elected. BibMe Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Both my wife and I remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison. Included in this memory are the funeral snippets on TV and a legal flap over book rights involving his Widow.

New York City, New York. London, England. Other names. Big Driis. DJ Big Driis. Big Driis the Londoner. Dub[1]Occupation. Actor, musician, producer, DJ, rapper. Years active. 19.

Children. 2Idrissa Akuna “Idris” Elba. OBE (, born 6 September 1. English actor, producer, musician, and DJ.[3][4] He is known for playing the narcotrafficker. Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire,[5] DCI John Luther on the BBC One series Luther, and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2. He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, winning one, and was nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy Award.[6][7]Elba appeared in Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2. Takers (2. 01. 0), Thor (2. Watch The Dish Online Mic.

Prometheus (2. 01. Pacific Rim (2. 01. Thor: The Dark World (2. Beasts of No Nation (2. BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In 2. 01. 6, he voiced Chief Bogo in Zootopia, Shere Khan in The Jungle Book, Fluke in Finding Dory and played the role of Krall in Star Trek Beyond.

He will make his directorial debut with an adaptation of the 1. Yardie by Victor Headley.[8]In addition to his acting work, Elba is a DJ under the moniker DJ Big Driis (or Big Driis the Londoner) and a hip hop and soul musician.[9] In 2. Time 1. 00 list of the Most Influential People in the World.[1. Early life[edit]An only child, Idris Akuna Elba was born on 6 September 1. Hackney, London.[1.

His father, Winston, was a Sierra Leonean and worked in the Ford motor factory at Dagenham, and his mother, Eve, was a Ghanaian.[1. Elba's parents were married in Sierra Leone and later moved to London.[1. Elba was brought up in Hackney[1.

East Ham,[1. 4] and shortened his first name from Idrissa to "Idris" at school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting. He credits The Stage with giving him his first big break; having seen an advertisement for a play in a newspaper, Elba auditioned and met his first agent while performing in the role.[1. In 1. 98. 6, he began helping an uncle with his wedding DJ business; within a year, he had started his own DJ company with some of his friends.[2]Elba left school in 1. National Youth Music Theatre thanks to a £1,5. Prince's Trust grant. His first acting role was in Crimewatch murder reconstructions.[1.

To support himself between roles in Crimewatch reconstructions, he worked in jobs such as tyre- fitting, cold call advertising sales, and working night shifts at Ford Dagenham.[1. He was working in nightclubs, under the DJ nickname "Big Driis", aged nineteen, but began auditioning for television roles in his early twenties.[2]Acting career[edit]Television[edit]In 1. Elba landed his first significant role on a series called Bramwell, a medical drama set in 1. England. He played a central character in an episode of Season 1, an African petty thief named Charlie Carter, who lost his (white) wife to childbirth and had to figure out how to support his newborn daughter.

His first named role arrived earlier in 1. Sex" episode of Absolutely Fabulous. Many supporting roles on British television followed, including series such as The Bill and The Ruth Rendell Mysteries. He joined the cast of the soap opera Family Affairs[2] and went on to appear on the television serial Ultraviolet and later on Dangerfield.[1.

He decided to move to New York City soon after.[2] He returned to England occasionally for a television role, such as a part in one of the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. In 2. 00. 1, Elba played Achilles in a stage production of Troilus and Cressida in New York City.[2]After a supporting turn on a 2. Law & Order, Elba landed a starring role on the 2. HBO drama series The Wire. From 2. 00. 2 to 2.

Elba portrayed Russell "Stringer" Bell in the series, perhaps his best- known role in the United States. In 2. 00. 5, he portrayed Captain Augustin Muganza in Sometimes in April, an HBO film about the Rwandan Genocide. Elba appeared on the 2. BET special Black Men: The Truth.[1. He appeared as Charlie Gotso on The No. Ladies' Detective Agency, filmed in Botswana.[2. The series premiered on 2.

March 2. 00. 8, Easter Sunday, on BBC One, receiving a high 6. In January 2. 00. Variety that Elba would portray Charles Miner, a new rival to Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell) for NBC's The Office.[2.

Elba appeared in a six- episode story arc later in the 2. In September 2. 00. BBC television series Luther, which aired in May 2.

He appeared on Showtime's. The Big C in 2. 01. At the 6. 9th Golden Globe Awards telecast on 1. January 2. 01. 2, Elba won the Award for Best Actor in a Series, Mini- Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role on the BBC crime thriller series Luther.[7]In 2. Elba signed on as the lead role of the film Daddy's Little Girls, playing Monty, a blue- collar mechanic who falls in love with an attorney helping him gain custody of his kids, and finds the relationship and his custody hopes threatened by the return of his former wife. He appeared in 2. Weeks Later (2. 00.

This Christmas (2. Greta Full Movie Part 1. In 2. 00. 8, he starred in the horror film Prom Night and the criminal comedy Rockn. Rolla.[2. 3] In 2. The Unborn and in Obsessed, a thriller that had him cast opposite Beyoncé.[2. The latter was a box office success, taking $2. Elba's next film was Legacy (2.

Brooklyn after a failed mission in Eastern Europe, where he has undertaken a journey looking for retribution.[2. He starred in Dark Castle's adaptation of DC/Vertigo's. The Losers, under the direction of Sylvain White, in the role of Roque, the second- in- command of a black- ops team out for revenge against a government that did them wrong.[2. Filming took place in Puerto Rico and the movie was released in April 2. Elba appeared in the thriller Takers (2. Empire Season 1 Episode 9 Full Episode Free Online. He played Heimdall in Kenneth Branagh's film Thor (2.

Marvel Comicssuperhero of the same name).[3. In August 2. 01. 0, Elba signed up to portray the title character in a reboot of James Patterson's Alex Cross film franchise.[2. However, in February 2.

Tyler Perry.[3. 1] In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2. Ghost Rider (2. 00. Elba played an alcoholic warrior monk tasked with finding the title character.[3. In February 2. 01.

Elba confirmed that he would portray Nelson Mandela in the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, which is based on his autobiography.[3. As part of his preparation for the role, Elba spent a night locked in a cell alone on Robben Island, where Mandela had been imprisoned.[3. His performance earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.[3. In June 2. 01. 2, Elba portrayed Captain Janek in Ridley Scott's Prometheus.[3. He joined the cast of the film Pacific Rim (2. Stacker Pentecost.[3. In January 2. 01.

Luther.[3. 8] In 2. No Good Deed as a vengeful psychopathic serial killer. In 2. 01. 5, Elba appeared as Heimdall in the superhero blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron, directed by Joss Whedon.

Elba also starred alongside Abraham Attah in the film Beasts of No Nation which premiered in select theaters and on Netflix. He earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture as well as a BAFTA Award nomination for Supporting Actor in the Film category. In 2. 01. 6, he had several voice roles: the cape buffalo chief of police, Chief Bogo, in Disney's Zootopia, alongside Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman; villainous tiger Shere Khan in The Jungle Book, a live- action remake of the animated 1. Pixar's Finding Dory, alongside Ellen De. Generes and Albert Brooks, both reprising their roles from Finding Nemo (2. Also that year, he played the main antagonist, Krall, in the sequel Star Trek Beyond.

In 2. 01. 7, he played Roland Deschain in the film adaptation The Dark Tower.[3.