Age: 37
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Daniel Kaluuya (/kəˈluːjə/; born 24 February 1989) is a British actor and filmmaker. His work encompasses both screen and stage, and his accolades include an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2021, he was named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Kaluuya began his acting career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He played Posh Kenneth in the first two seasons of the television series Skins (2007–2009); he also co-wrote some of the episodes. Kaluuya drew praise for his leading performance in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. He went on to gain attention for his television roles in Psychoville (2009–2011), The Fades (2011), and the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" (2011). He also had supporting roles in the films Johnny English Reborn (2011), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), and Sicario (2015). In 2017, Kaluuya had his breakthrough starring in Jordan Peele's horror film Get Out, which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. This was followed by roles in Ryan Coogler's superhero film Black Panther (2018), Steve McQueen's crime drama Widows (2018), Peele's horror film Nope (2022), and Sony Pictures Animation's animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). For his portrayal of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in the biopic Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), he won the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since co-directed the drama The Kitchen (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Kaluuya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daniel Kaluuya
Benoît de Courtenvaux
for Benoît de Courtenvaux in At the time of Versailles
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The year 1666 marked a turning point in the French monarchy. The queen mother, Anne of Austria, died at the Val de Grâce. Everyone remembers the exit of Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV. The church struck five in the morning on January 22, he had cut through the crowd looking serious, without a word, without a tear, paying no attention to anyone as his shock was immense. He began to walk, refusing his beautiful golden coach and had taken a horse when he was not wearing boots but Italian heels, no jacket, just a doublet, all ribbons in the wind. He had galloped like this as far as Saint-Cloud to cry all the tears in his body. Then after this mourning, everything resumed its courtship, as before. The Court of France was the largest in Europe and the most famous. People came from everywhere to tread the gardens of Versailles, to try to see the King, even to speak to him. Balls, apartment evenings and plays punctuated the daily life of the Court.
