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Elba in 2018
Idris Elba is an English actor. He is known for portraying drug trafficker Stringer Bell on the HBO series The Wire , DCI John Luther on the BBC One series Luther and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film , winning one and was nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy Award .
Television [ edit ]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1994
2point4 Children
Parachute Instructor
Episode: "Fortuosity"
Space Precinct
Pizza Delivery Man
Episode: "Double Duty"
1994, 1995
The Bill
Earl Lee, Alex Mason
2 episodes
1995
Absolutely Fabulous
Hilton
Episode: "Sex"
Bramwell
Charlie Carter
Episode: "The Outcast's Baby"
1996
The Governor
Officer Chiswick
6 episodes
Crocodile Shoes II
Jo-Jo
Episode: "Troubled Man"
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Raffy, Pest Controller
4 episodes
Crucial Tales
Benton
Episode: "Spiders and Flies"
1997
Insiders
Robinson Bennett
6 episodes
Family Affairs
Tim Webster
7 episodes
Silent Witness
Charlie
Episode: "Blood, Sweat & Tears"
1998
Verdict
PC Brian Rawlinson
Episode: "Neighbours from Hell"
Ultraviolet
Vaughan Rice
6 episodes
1999
Dangerfield
Matt Gregory
12 episodes
2000
In Defence
PC Paul Fraser
Episode #1.3
2001
London's Burning
Cpl. Richard Frost
2 episodes
Law & Order
Lonnie Liston
Episode: "3 Dawg Night"
2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Robert Gabriel
Episode: "Payment in Blood"
Hack
Mac Boone
Episode: "My Alibi"
2002–2004
The Wire
Russell "Stringer" Bell
37 episodes
2003
CSI: Miami
Angelo Sedaris
Episode: "The Best Defense"
Queens Supreme
Carla
Episode: "Mad About You"
Soul Food
Smitty
Episode: "Sacrifice Fly"
2005
Girlfriends
Paul
Episode: "All in a Panic"
Sometimes in April
Augustin Muganza
Television film
Jonny Zero
Hodge
Episode: "To Serve and to Protect"
2006
All in the Game
Paul
Television film
2008
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Charles Gotso
Episode: "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"
2009
The Office
Charles Miner
7 episodes
2010
The Big C
Lenny
4 episodes
Walk Like a Panther
—
Executive producer
2010–2019
Luther
John Luther
20 episodes; also associate producer
2011
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Police Officer
Voice role; episode: "Intervention"
How Hip Hop Changed the World
—
Executive producer
Demons Never Die
—
2012
Idris Elba's How Clubbing Changed the World
Himself (host)
Television documentary
2013
Idris Elba: King of Speed
2 episodes
2013, 2015
Playhouse Presents
Akuna's Father, Narrator
Also wrote and directed "The Pavement Psychologist"
2015
Idris Elba: No Limits
Himself (host)
4 episodes
2017
Guerrilla
Kentoro "Kent" Abbasi
4 episodes; also executive producer
Five by Five
Alpha Ash
2 episodes; also executive producer
Idris Elba: Fighter
Himself (host)
Miniseries; also executive producer
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2017
Television special
2018–2020
In the Long Run
Walter Easmon
19 episodes; also creator
2018
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2018
Himself (host)
Television special
2019
Saturday Night Live
Episode: "Idris Elba/Khalid "
Turn Up Charlie
Charlie Ayo
8 episodes; also creator and executive producer
2020
Coronavirus, Explained
Narrator
Episode: "How to Cope"
Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
60-minute BBC special
2022
Idris Elba's Fight School
Himself (Presenter)
Five-part series[5]
Zootopia+
Chief Bogo
Voice role, episode: "So You Think You Can Prance?"
2023
Hijack
Sam Nelson
Miniseries
What If...?
Heimdall
Voice role, episode: "What if... Hela Found the Ten Rings?"
2024
Knuckles
Knuckles the Echidna
Voice role, miniseries; also executive producer
The Greatest of All Time
TBA
Filming
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