Idris Elba

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Birthday: September 06, 1972

As the child of a Sierra Leonean father and a Ghanian mother, the Afro-British cinema and television actor Idris Elba built his reputation as a performer in sitcoms and cable dramas during the 1990s and early 2000s before segueing into Hollywood movies in 2005. Born in London on September 6, 1972, and raised in the Hackney borough of that city (in the northeast quadrant), Elba ...more