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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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English actor

United KingdomActorsBorn 1967 · age 59also Nigeriaalso United States
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a British actor. On television, he is best known for his roles as Simon Adebisi in Oz (1997-2000), Mr. Eko in Lost (2005-2006), and Alamo Brown in Euphoria (2026). I.

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It felt like a kidnap…and it rendered me mute for about nine months. I couldn't speak the language, and if I spoke English I was abused for it.

On being taken back to Nigeria after living abroad for years in England in “Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I

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I wanted to assimilate and go back to the abnormal normality I knew. I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

On returning back to England and his subsequent identity crisis in “Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the

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There was no way of getting love.

On the rationale that eventually led him to join the skinheads despite being British-Nigerian in “‘Farmed’ out to a white family, I became

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Filmography 37

Thor: The Dark World2013 · ★ 6.5
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra2009 · ★ 5.8
The Bourne Identity2002 · ★ 7.5
Suicide Squad2016 · ★ 5.9
The Mummy Returns2001 · ★ 6.4
The Thing2011 · ★ 6.2
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls1995 · ★ 6.3
Killer Elite2011 · ★ 6.3
Pompeii2014 · ★ 5.6
Faster2010 · ★ 6.4
Annie2014 · ★ 6.2
Concussion2015 · ★ 7.1
The Union2024 · ★ 6.1
Congo1995 · ★ 5.6
Trumbo2015 · ★ 7.2
Bullet to the Head2012 · ★ 5.6
Get Rich or Die Tryin'2005 · ★ 6.8
Legionnaire1998 · ★ 5.8
Marlowe2023 · ★ 5.7
Tour de Pharmacy2017 · ★ 6.7
The Mistress of Spices2005 · ★ 6.2
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero2016 · ★ 6.8
Farming2018 · ★ 6.2
Unstoppable2004 · ★ 5.2
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete2013 · ★ 7.1
Delta of Venus1995 · ★ 4.4
Best Laid Plans2012
Getting LOST2024
Wetlands2017
Deadly Voyage1996
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble2000
Lip Service2001
Elizabeth Blue2017
Preaching to the Choir2005
Late in Summer
Starwater2001
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Television 24

Game of Thrones2011
Euphoria2019
Lost2004
Monk2002
Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988
Oz1997
His Dark Materials2019
Secret Level2024
Screen Two1985
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure2017
New York Undercover1994
Red Shoe Diaries1992
Soccer AM1995
My Dad the Bounty Hunter2023
Watership Down2018
Hunted2012
American Odyssey2015
Fired on Mars2023
Pensacola: Wings of Gold1997
The Fix2019
Ten Days in the Valley2017
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea1997
Major Lazer2015

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2006Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

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About this person

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a British actor. On television, he is best known for his roles as Simon Adebisi in Oz (1997-2000), Mr. Eko in Lost (2005-2006), and Alamo Brown in Euphoria (2026). Notable film roles include Hitu in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), Lock-Nah in The Mummy Returns (2001), Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity (2002), Heavy Duty in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Kurse in Thor: The Dark World (2013), Dave Duerson in Concussion (2015), and Killer Croc in Suicide Squad (2016).

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
living
Dates
Born 1967 · age 59
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31 languages

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