David Oyelowo
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David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo is a Nigerian-British actor, director, and producer. His accolades include a Critics' Choice Award and two NAACP Image Awards as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award.
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To be a human being is to have to come to terms with the fact that your time here is finite.
David Oyelowo Is the New Sheriff in Town. Esquire, 12 May 2023.
I like to stay busy and that’s partly why I produce and I’m now directing. I just love storytelling, and as an actor, you can often feel like a cog in a wheel.
David Oyelowo: “I don’t want to be a cog in a wheel… I’d rather own the whole bicycle”. NME,16 December 2020
Nowhere on earth has been better at covering up racism in my opinion than Great Britain. The thing I like about living in America is that racism comes at you head on.
David Oyelowo: ‘Nowhere on Earth has been better at covering up racism than Great Britain’. The Guardian, 16 December 2020.
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David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo is a Nigerian-British actor, director, and producer. His accolades include a Critics' Choice Award and two NAACP Image Awards as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award. In 2016, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama.
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