Daniel Kaluuya Biography

Daniel Kaluuya (born 8 May 1989) is an English actor and writer. Kaluuya is best known for playing Chris Washington in the 2017 horror film Get Out, Posh Kenneth in the E4 teen-drama Skins, and Bing in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits".

He also appeared as Tealeaf in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville and Mac in the BBC Three horror drama The Fades. Kaluuya appeared as Agent Tucker in the 2011 film Johnny English Reborn, alongside Rowan Atkinson, and in 2013, he appeared in the film Kick-Ass 2. He will appear in the upcoming Marvel Studios film Black Panther, portraying W'Kabi.

Early life

Daniel Kaluuya was born in London, the son of Ugandan immigrants. He attended St Aloysius College, London.

Career

Kaluuya's early roles included Reece in the BBC's controversial drama Shoot the Messenger.

Kaluuya then joined the original cast of Skins as Posh Kenneth and was a contributor on the first two series, as well as being a staff writer, and the head writer of the second series episode "Jal" and third series episode "Thomas". He also presented the Skins Podcast (also called Skinscast).

After Skins, Kaluuya appeared as a guest star in many established series such as Silent Witness, the Doctor Who special Planet of the Dead and Lewis. He has also appeared in the sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look twice and the sketch show Harry and Paul. Kaluuya also voiced a character in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Sneakiepeeks.

In 2009, he became a regular cast member in the ITV comedy FM as amateur DJ-Radio Runner "Ades" and also as Michael "Tea Leaf" Fry in dark BBC comedy Psychoville.

On 14 July 2009, Kaluuya and close friend Jason Lewis released a video of themselves performing their parody of Boy Better Know's "Too Many Man". The song is titled "Too Many Weave". The video was in YouTube's Most Viewed for 14, 15 and 16 July that year.

At the end of 2009, the Screen International Magazine picked Kaluuya out in their annual report as a UK Star of Tomorrow.

In 2010, Kaluuya played the lead role in Roy Williams' Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Kaluuya lost 3 stone for the role, and both the play and Kaluuya won rave reviews and he won both the Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer.

In 2011, Kaluuya was leading man in Daniel Mulloy's Baby, which went on to win the Best Short Film Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as well as the Best Short Film Award at the British Independent Film Awards. In 2011 Enda Walsh's adaption of his stage play Chatroom was also released with Kaluuya having a main role. He later appeared in the sequel of Johnny English, Johnny English Reborn, as Agent Tucker. He also played the role of Mac Armstrong in BBC3's supernatural drama The Fades.

Kaluuya played one of the lead characters 'Bing' in "Fifteen Million Merits", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror. In September 2015, Kaluuya portrayed FBI agent Reggie Wayne, in Sicario.

Kaluuya starred in the lead role, Chris Washington, in the horror film Get Out, which was released in theaters on February 24, 2017.

In December 2016, Kaluuya was cast in the Marvel Studios movie Black Panther. The film is due to be released in 2018.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Shoot the Messenger	Reece
2007	Much Ado About a Minor Ting	Shocker
2008	Cass	Young Cass
2010	Chatroom	Mo
	Baby	Damon	Short film
2011	Johnny English Reborn	Special Agent Tucker
2012	Beginning	Stanley	Short film
2013	Welcome to the Punch	Juka
	Jonah	Mbwana	Short film
	Kick-Ass 2	Black Death
2015	Sicario	Reggie Wayne
2017	Get Out	Chris Washington	Won "? MTV Movie & TV Award for Next Generation Pending "? Gotham Award for Best Actor Nominated "? MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Actor in a Movie Nominated "? MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Duo (with Lil Rel Howery)
2018	Black Panther	W'Kabi	Post-production
	Widows		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Whistleblowers	School Bully	Episode: "No Child Left Behind"
	Comedy: Shuffle	Dean	Episode: "Brendon Burns"
2007-2009	Skins	Posh Kenneth/DJ	Series 1 and 2 Wrote 3 episodes
2008	Delta Forever	Roger	Episode: "Pilot"
	Silent Witness	Errol Harris	Episode: "Safe: Part 1"
2008-2009	That Mitchell and Webb Look	Dancing Speedo Kid / Various	2 episodes
2009	Doctor Who	Barclay	Episode: "Planet of the Dead"
	Lewis	Declan	Episode: "Counter Culture Blues"
	FM	Ades	4 episodes
	The Philanthropist		Episode: "Nigeria (Part 2)"
	10 Minute Tales	Solider #2	Episode: "The Three Kings"
2009-2011	Psychoville	Michael Fry (a.k.a. Tealeaf)	12 episodes
2010	Comedy Lab	Varios	Episode: "Happy Finish" (pilot)
2010-2012	Harry and Paul	Parking Pataweyo	5 episodes
2011	Coming Up	Micah	Episode: "Micah"
	The Fades	Mac	Main role
	Black Mirror	Bing	Episode: "Fifteen Million Merits"
	Random	Brother	Television film
2014	Babylon	Matt Coward	Series 1
2017	Watership Down	Bluebell (voice)	Upcoming miniseries

Theatre

Year	Title	Character	Notes
2016	Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall	Christopher
2013	Trelawny of the Wells by Arthur Wing Pinero	Tom Wrench	Directed by Joe Wright
2010	Sucker Punch by Roy Williams	Leon Davidson	Winner of Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer
2008	Oxford Street by Levi David Addai	Boy 1	Nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre as part of the ensemble cast of Oxford Street