Kingsley Ben-Adir

Age: 39

male

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.

See Profile

Fan Casting

Kingsley Ben-Adir

Malcolm X

for Malcolm X in We Didn't Start the Fire

Suggested by shears

We Didn't Start the Fire

In 1989, Billy Joel released We Didn't Start the Fire, a list song that includes numerous historical events from Joel's birth in 1949 up until the present day (1989). This aims to cast every character mentioned within this song. This series will draw from their appearances in pop culture within the last 10 years. Exceptions are made for characters casted in films that were released before 2012, or people who haven't been featured in castings after 2012.

See Story

Comments

Other Suggestions for Malcolm X

Nigel Thatch