Daniel Kaluuya

Daniel Kaluuya
Born	(1989-05-08) 8 May 1989 London, England
Occupation	Actor, writer, comedian
Years active	2006–present

Daniel Kaluuya (born 8 May 1989) is a British actor, comedian and writer, who is best known for playing Posh Kenneth in the E4 teen-drama Skins and Bing in the Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits. He also appeared in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville playing Michael Fry (a.k.a. Tealeaf) and Mac in the BBC Three's horror drama The Fades. In 2011, Kaluuya starred as Agent Tucker in the film Johnny English Reborn, alongside Rowan Atkinson, and in 2013, he appeared in the film Kick-Ass 2.

Life and career

The son of immigrants from Uganda, Kaluuya attended St Aloysius College, London. His early roles included Reece in the BBC's controversial drama Shoot the Messenger.

Kaluuya then joined the original cast of Skins as Posh Kenneth and was a contributor on the first two series, as well as being a staff writer, and the head writer of the second series episode "Jal" and third series episode "Thomas". He also presented the Skins Podcast (also called Skinscast).

After Skins Kaluuya appeared as a guest star in many established series such as Silent Witness, the Doctor Who special Planet of the Dead and Lewis. He has also appeared in the sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look twice and the sketch show Harry and Paul. Kaluuya also voiced a character in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Sneakiepeeks.

In 2009 he became a regular cast member in the ITV comedy FM as amateur DJ–Radio Runner "Ades" and also as Michael "Tea Leaf" Fry in dark BBC comedy Psychoville.

At the end of 2009, the Screen International Magazine picked Kaluuya out in their annual report as a 'UK Star of Tomorrow'.

In 2010 Kaluuya played the lead role in Roy Williams' Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Kaluuya lost 3 stone for the role, becoming a healthy weight, having previously been extremely overweight, and both the play and Kaluuya won rave reviews and he won both the Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer.

In 2011 Kaluuya was leading man in Daniel Mulloy's Baby, which went on to win the Best Short Film Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as well as the Best Short Film Award at the British Independent Film Awards. In 2011 Enda Walsh's adaption of his stage play Chatroom was also released with Kaluuya having a main role. He later appeared in the Johnny English sequel, Johnny English Reborn, as Agent Tucker. He also played the role of Mac Armstrong in BBC3's supernatural drama The Fades (TV series).

Kaluuya played one of the lead characters 'Bing' in the second episode of Channel Four's 2011 drama series Black Mirror, entitled Fifteen Million Merits.

In 2015 Kaluuya portrayed FBI agent Reggie Wayne in Sicario.

Other work

Internet parody songs

On 14 July 2009, Daniel and close friend Jason Lewis (who is also an actor/writer), released a video of themselves performing their parody of Boy Better Know's "Too Many Man". The song is titled "Too Many Weave". The video was in YouTube's Most Viewed for 14, 15 and 16 July that year.

They are currently working on more parody songs, including "Can I Plant the Trees" and "Put the Tip In".

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Shoot the Messenger	Reece	BBC
	The Whistleblowers	School Bully	Episode: "No Child Left Behind"
2007	Much Ado About a Minor Ting	Shocker
	Comedy: Shuffle	Dean	Episode: "Brendon Burns"
2007–2009	Skins	Posh Kenneth/DJ	Series 1 and 2
2008	That Mitchell and Webb Look	Dancing Speedo Kid	Episode: "Series 2 Episode 2"
	Delta Forever	Roger	Episode: "Pilot"
	Cass	Young Cass
	Silent Witness	Errol Harris	Episode: "Safe: Part 1"
2009	Doctor Who	Barclay	Episode: "Planet of the Dead"
	Lewis	Declan	Episode: "Counter Culture Blues"
	That Mitchell and Webb Look	School pupil	Episode: "Series 3 Episode 5"
	The Philanthropist		Episode: "Nigeria (Part 2)"
	Down the Line	TBA
2009–2011	Psychoville	Michael Fry (a.k.a. Tealeaf)	Starring Role
2010	Chatroom	Mo	Starring Role
	Baby	Damon	Pre-Production
	Happy Finish (Comedy Lab)	Various Characters	Pilot
2010–present	Harry and Paul	Parking Pataweyo	Re-occurring sketch
2011	Micah (Coming Up)	Micah	Starring Role
	The Fades	Mac	Starring Role
	Johnny English Reborn	Special Agent Tucker	Starring Role
	Black Mirror	Bing	Episode: "Fifteen Million Merits"
2012	Beginning	Stanley	Short
2013	Jonah	Mbwana	Short
	Welcome to the Punch	Juka
	Kick-Ass 2	Black Death
2014	Babylon	Matt Coward	Series 1
2015	Sicario	Reggie Wayne

Theatre

Year	Title	Character	Notes
2010	Sucker Punch by Roy Williams	Leon Davidson	Winner of Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer
2008	Oxford Street by Levi David Addai	Boy 1	Nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre as part of the ensemble cast of Oxford Street

As writer

Year	Title	Episode Written	Notes
2007	Skins		Staff Writer
2008	Skins	"Jal"	Staff Writer
2009	Skins	"Thomas"	Staff Writer

External links

• Daniel Kaluuya at the Internet Movie Database