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Kwame Kwei-Armah

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Actor, playwright, singer, and broadcaster

United KingdomActorsBorn 1967 · age 59
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Kwame Kwei-Armah is a British actor, playwright, director and broadcaster. In 2005, Kwei-Armah became the second black Briton to have a play staged in London's West End when his award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre.

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Filmography 17

Cutthroat Island1995 · ★ 5.8
Breaking2022 · ★ 6.5
Pride2004 · ★ 6.1
Gunslinger's Revenge1998 · ★ 4.5
Fade to Black2006
Birth of a Nation1983
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking2021
Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent2020
Elmina’s Kitchen2004
Walter's War2008
Boner
Twelfth Night2021
The Saint
The Collaboration
Black Power Salute2008
Escape From Kampala1991
Swingin' the Dream2021

27 credits on file

Television 8

Casualty1986
Skins2007
Lewis2007
Never Mind the Buzzcocks1996
The Afternoon Play2003
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman1997
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy2003
The Latchkey Children1980

Awards 3

2014Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2008honorary doctorate
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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About this person

Kwame Kwei-Armah is a British actor, playwright, director and broadcaster. In 2005, Kwei-Armah became the second black Briton to have a play staged in London's West End when his award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre. He was the first black Briton to head a major British national theater, when he took the directorship of the Young Vic in 2018. Kwei-Armah was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

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

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