Kingsley Ben-Adir

Kingsley Ben-Adir (born c. 1986/1987) is a British television, film, and stage actor. He has performed in several plays in London theatres. He plays pathologist Marcus Summer in ITV's detective drama Vera and private detective Karim Washington on the second season of the Netflix series The OA.[2][3]

Kingsley Ben-Adir
Born1986/1987 (age 33–34)[1]
Gospel Oak, London, England
OccupationActor
Years active2012–present

Education

Ben-Adir attended William Ellis School in Gospel Oak, Northwest London. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011.[4]

Career

In 2011, Ben-Adir performed in Gillian Slovo's critically acclaimed sell-out play The Riots at the Tricycle Theatre.[5]

In 2012, he played Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

In 2013, he played Borachio in Mark Rylance's production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic in London and also played in God's Property at the Soho Theatre.[6][7]

In 2014, Ben-Adir performed in the play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 at the Bush Theatre in London.[8][9][10] The play received positive reviews.[11]

Ben-Adir plays Sampson in Adam Smith's British crime drama Trespass Against Us starring Michael Fassbender and Sir Tristan "Wet Stick" in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2013 World War Z Officer Hawkins Uncredited
2016 Trespass Against Us Sampson
2017 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Tristan
2018 The Commuter Special Agent Garcia
2019 Noelle Jake Hapman
TBA One Night in Miami Malcolm X Post-production

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2012 Agatha Christie's Marple Errol 1 episode
2014-2018 Vera Dr. Marcus Sumner Main role, 16 episodes
2016 Midsomer Murders Bartholomew Hines 1 episode
2016 Ordinary Lies Jake 1 episode
2017 Death in Paradise Irie Johnson 1 episode
2017 Diana and I Russell Television film
2017-2019 Peaky Blinders Colonel Ben Younger Recurring role (series 4); main role (series 5), 5 episodes
2018 Deep State Khalid Walker Recurring role, 4 episodes
2019 The OA Karim Washington Main role, 6 episode
2020 High Fidelity Russell 'Mac' McCormack Recurring role, 7 episodes
2020 Love Life Grant 1 episode
2020 The Comey Rule Barack Obama Upcoming miniseries

References
  1. de Semlyen, Phil (April 1, 2019). "Introducing Kingsley Ben-Adir – the breakout star of 'The OA' season 2". Time Out.
  2. "Review: Vera, ITV, 8pm Sunday ". The Journal.
  3. "Vera, series six, episode one, review: 'rescued by Blethyn'". The Telegraph, Gerard O'Donovan 31 January 2016
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. Retrieved 2014-05-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. https://www.theguardian.com › Arts › Stage › Theatre
  6. "Love and Acceptance in ‘God's Property’". The Platform, Dornett Roachford, March 21, 2013
  7. "God's Property, Soho Theatre - review". Evening Standard, 27 February 2013.
  8. "We Are Proud to Present… review – 'A Pirandellian take on a little-known genocide'". The Guardian. Michael Billington, 5 March 2014
  9. "We Are Proud to Present, theatre review. Bush Theatre, London". The Independent, Paul Taylor 10 March 2014
  10. "We Are Proud To Present… at Bush Theatre takes your breath away". Metro, Siobhan Murphy. Friday 7 Mar 2014
  11. "Review: ‘We Are Proud to present…’". What's On - Africa, March 20, 2014
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