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Kingsley Ben-Adir (born 20 November 1986) is a British actor. His credits include playing pathologist Marcus Summer in ITV's Vera (2014–2018), private detective Karim Washington on Netflix's The OA (2019), Colonel Ben Younger in the BBC drama Peaky Blinders (2017–2019), and Gravik in the superhero miniseries Secret Invasion (2023). He starred as Malcolm X in the Amazon Studios film One Night in Miami... (2020), for which he won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performer, and as Bob Marley in Bob Marley: One Love (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kingsley Ben-Adir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Paul (Saul of Tarsus)
for Paul (Saul of Tarsus) in Acts: The Early Church
Suggested by mr95
After the resurrection, twelve ordinary people were given an extraordinary commission. What happened next changed the world. A faithful, sweeping cinematic adaptation of the Acts of the Apostles — the story of the early church from Pentecost through Paul's arrival in Rome. The film is structured in three movements: Jerusalem (Pentecost, the early community, Stephen's martyrdom, the church's first persecution); The Gentile Mission (Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, Cornelius and Peter, Antioch); and Paul's Journeys (the conversion on the Damascus road, the missionary journeys, the shipwreck, Rome). The film treats the Acts narrative with historical seriousness — the social, political, and religious context of the first century Mediterranean world fully rendered. The miracles are portrayed with the gravity the text gives them: not as special effects but as specific divine interventions in specific human situations. Movement One — Jerusalem Pentecost. Peter's sermon. The community of believers. Stephen. The persecution beginning. Movement Two — The Gentile Mission Philip and the Ethiopian. Cornelius. Antioch. The world opening. Movement Three — To Rome Paul's conversion. The missionary journeys. The shipwreck. Rome. The gospel reaching the world's center.
