Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
1967 (58 лет)Born to Nigerian Yoruba parents, he was given up at six weeks old to a white working-class family in Essex. His foster parents raised multiple African children, including his two sisters. At eight, he briefly returned to Nigeria but struggled with the language and culture, leading him back to the UK. Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood, he faced racial abuse but eventually stood up to local skinheads, earning their respect.
Akinnuoye-Agbaje attended boarding school in Surrey at 16, where he focused on his studies, later earning a Bachelor's degree from the University of London and a Master's in Law from King's College London. While in university, he was introduced to modeling, which led to his acting career. In 2017, he was awarded an Honorary PhD by Princess Anne, Chancellor of the University of London. His directorial debut, Farming, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Akinnuoye-Agbaje lives in Los Angeles. He is a Nichiren Buddhist and a member of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist association.
Akinnuoye-Agbaje asked to be written off Lost, citing a desire to return to London after his foster parents' deaths and to direct a film there. He is a supporter of Arsenal F.C.
The Bourne Identity
Doug Liman
Мэтт Дэймон, Franka Potente
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
The Bourne Identity
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
Ayman Jamal, Khurram H. Alavi
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, China Anne McClain
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
Concussion
Peter Landesman
Will Smith, Alec Baldwin
A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Concussion
Thor: The Dark World
Alan Taylor
Chris Hemsworth, Натали Портман
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Thor: The Dark World
Deadly Voyage
John Mackenzie
Omar Epps, Joss Ackland
When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port.
Deadly Voyage
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
James Keach
Jane Seymour, Keith Carradine
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
The Mummy Returns
Stephen Sommers
Брендан Фреййзер, Rachel Weisz
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.
The Mummy Returns
Killer Elite
Gary McKendry
Jason Statham, Clive Owen
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.
Killer Elite
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Steve Oedekerk
Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
The Thing
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
The Thing
Best Laid Plans
David Blair
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Stephen Graham
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.
Best Laid Plans
Farming
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
Farming
