Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje British Actor Born in 1967

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a British actor born on 22 August 1967 in Islington. He is recognised for appearances in Suicide Squad (2016) and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).

Early life

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was educated at King's College London, University of London Worldwide and University of London.

Career

The earliest credit on record for Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is Delta of Venus (1994), as The Clairvoyant. During the 1990s, he worked on Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and Oz (1997, as Simon Adebisi). Work from the 2000s includes The Bourne Identity (2002, as Nykwana Wombosi) and Lost (2004, as Mr. Eko). Killer Elite (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013, as Kurse, Algrim/Kurse) are among his 2010s credits. In the 2020s, he appeared in Marlowe (2022, as Cedric) and The Union (2024).

His filmography here covers 26 films and 4 TV series from 1994 to 2024. Action is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (11), followed by drama (9) and science fiction (5). Of his four titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Suicide Squad (2016) has the highest, at $747 million. His off-screen credits include director on Farming.

Will Smith appears in two of his listed titles, including Concussion (2015). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Viola Davis (two titles) and Dwayne Johnson (two titles). George Tillman, Jr. directed two of his titles on record, among them Faster (2010) and The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013). Stephen Sommers is credited as director on two of them, including The Mummy Returns (2001).

Recognition

In 2006, he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Lost.