Idris Elba
Idrissa Akuna Elba OBE (/ˈɪdrɪs/; born 6 September 1972) is an English actor. An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London, he is known for roles including Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire, DCI John Luther in the BBC One series Luther, and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, winning one, and has been nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy Award. Elba appeared in Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007), Obsessed (2009) and Prometheus (2012). He portrayed Heimdall in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Thor (2011) and its sequels Thor: The Dark World (2013), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). He also starred in Pacific Rim (...
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High in the Clouds
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
Children of Blood and Bone
Masters of the Universe
Zootopia 2
A House of Dynamite
Fixed
Heads of State
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba
Extraction 2
Luther: The Fallen Sun
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Beast
Thor: Love and Thunder
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
An Audience with Adele
The Harder They Fall
The Suicide Squad
Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney
Concrete Cowboy
Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert
Cats
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Molly's Game
The Mountain Between Us
Thor: Ragnarok
The Dark Tower
Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour
Marine Life Interviews
100 Streets
Star Trek Beyond
Finding Dory
Bastille Day
The Jungle Book
Zootopia
Mandela, My Dad and Me
Beasts of No Nation
The Gunman
Cut from a Different Cloth
No Good Deed
Enchanted Kingdom
Second Coming
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Thor: The Dark World
Pacific Rim- HOHow Clubbing Changed the World
Prometheus
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Executing the Heist: The Making of 'Takers'
Thor
Gumball 3000: LDN 2 NYC
Takers
Luther
The Losers
Legacy
Obsessed
The Unborn
The Human Contract
RocknRolla
Prom Night
This Christmas
Code Red: The Making of '28 Weeks Later'
Tapping the Wire
28 Weeks Later
The Reaping
Daddy's Little Girls
Sometimes in April
The Gospel
One Love
Beautiful Mother- SPSpiders and Flies
- UNUntitled Luther Sequel
Extraction 3
Five nights at sonic
