David Oyelowo
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish actor
also United States
also NigeriaDavid 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.
Filmography 40
Interstellar
The Help
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Jack Reacher
Lincoln
The Cloverfield Paradox
Chaos Walking
The Last King of Scotland
The Butler
Selma
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
The Midnight Sky
A Wrinkle in Time
A Most Violent Year
See How They Run
Red Tails
Derailed
Gringo
The Paperboy
Role Play
A Sound of Thunder
A United Kingdom
Queen of Katwe
Don't Let Go
Come Away
The Water Man
Captive
The Book of Clarence
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
As You Like It
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
The Best Man
96 Minutes
Nina
Night of the Kings
The After
Nightingale
A Raisin in the Sun
Five Nights in Maine
Middle of Nowhere139 credits on file
Television 24
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Good Wife
Conan
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Silo
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sherri
Star Wars Rebels
The One Show
Spooks
Tamron Hall
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Tony Awards
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Lion Guard
The Oscars
After Midnight
Lawmen: Bass ReevesAwards 2
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About this person
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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