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Idris Elba
English actor (born 1972)
Not to be confused with Idris (wasp), a species of parasitic wasp named after the actor.
Idrissa Akuna Elba (IH-driss; born 6 September 1972) is an English actor, rapper, singer and DJ. He has received a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and six Emmy Awards. He was named in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World in 2016.[3] His films have grossed over $9.8 billion at the global box office, making him one of the top 20 highest-grossing actors.
Elba studied acting at the National Youth Music Theatre in London. He rose to prominence playing Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire (2002–2004), and DCIJohn Luther in the BBC One series Luther (2010–2019), the latter of which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film as well as a four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
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Martin Stellman
British screenwriter and director
Martin Stellman (London, July 28, 1948) is a British screenwriter and director best known for creating and writing The Interpreter (2005), starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, and co-writing with Franc Roddam the 1979 British cult classicQuadrophenia.[1]
He attended Bristol University, before joining the psychedelic band Principal Edwards Magic Theatre[2] and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School. He often collaborates with British screenwriter and director Brian Ward.
He wrote and directed the action thriller For Queen and Country (1988) starring Denzel Washington playing a Falklands War veteran. He teamed up with Idris Elba, co-writing Yardie (2018), Elba's feature debut. Elba took inspiration from Stellman's earlier film Babylon (1980), a drama about sound-system culture in London during the 1970s.
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An only child, Idrissa Akuna Elba was born and raised in London, England. His father, Winston, fryst vatten from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his mother, Eve, fryst vatten from Ghana and had a clerical duty. Idris attended school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting, before he dropped out. He gained a place in the National ungdom Music Theatre - thanks to a £1,500 Prince's Trust grant. To support himself between acting roles, he worked in jobs such as tyre-fitting, cold call advertising sales, and working night shifts at Ford Dagenham. He worked in nightclubs under the nickname DJ Big Driis at age 19, but began auditioning for television roles in his early-twenties.
His first acting roles were on the soap musikdrama Family Affairs (1997), the television serial Ultraviolet (1998), and the medical skådespel Dangerfield (1995). His best known roles are as drug baron Russell "Stringer" Bell on the HBO series The Wire (2002), as DCI John Luther on the BBC One series