Daniel Kaluuya on screen and stage

Daniel Kaluuya is a British actor known for his performances on stage and screen as well as for his work as director, writer, and producer on the latter. Kaluuya began his career as a teenager in improvisational theatre, playing Posh Kenneth in the first two seasons of the television series Skins (2007–2009), in which he also co-wrote some episodes.^[1] He went on to gain attention for his television roles in Psychoville (2009–2011), The Fades (2011), and the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" (2011).^[2]

Kaluuya at the 2018 TIFF

In 2017, Kaluuya had his breakthrough starring in Jordan Peele's horror film Get Out, which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[3] This was followed by roles in Ryan Coogler's superhero film Black Panther (2018), Steve McQueen's crime drama Widows (2018), Peele's horror film Nope (2022), and Sony Pictures Animation's animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). For his portrayal of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in the biopic Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), he won the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[4][5] He has since co-directed the drama The Kitchen (2023).

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Shoot the Messenger	Reece	First Credit
2008	Cass	Young Cass Pennant
2010	Baby	Damon	Short film[6]
	Chatroom	Mo
2011	Johnny English Reborn	Agent Colin Tucker
2013	Welcome to the Punch	Juka Ogadowa
	Kick-Ass 2	Black Death
2015	Sicario	Reggie Wayne
2017	Get Out	Chris Washington
2018	Black Panther	W'Kabi
	Widows	Jatemme Manning
2019	Queen & Slim	Ernest "Slim" Hines	Also executive producer
2020	A Christmas Carol	Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
2021	Judas and the Black Messiah	Fred Hampton	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2022	Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.	—	Producer
	Nope	Otis "OJ" Haywood Jr.
2023	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Hobart "Hobie" Brown / Spider-Punk (voice)
	The Kitchen	—	Co-director, co-writer, and producer
2027	Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse †	Hobart "Hobie" Brown / Spider-Punk (voice)	In production
TBA	Misty Green †		Filming[7]
TBA	Barney †

Key

†	Denotes productions that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Whistleblowers	School Bully	Episode: "No Child Left Behind"
	Comedy: Shuffle	Dean	Episode: "Brendon Burns"
2007–2009	Skins	Posh Kenneth	11 episodes; Also contributing writer and head writer for 2 episodes
2008	Delta Forever	Roger	Episode: "Pilot"
	Silent Witness	Errol Harris	2 episodes
2008–2009	That Mitchell and Webb Look	Various
2009	Doctor Who	Barclay	Episode: "Planet of the Dead"
	Lewis	Declan	Episode: "Counter Culture Blues"
	FM	Ades	4 episodes
	The Philanthropist		Episode: "Nigeria Part II"
	10 Minute Tales	Soldier #2	Episode: "The Three Kings"
2009–2011	Psychoville	Michael "Tealeaf" Fry	12 episodes
2010	Comedy Lab[8]	Various	Episode: "Happy Finish"
2010–2012	Harry & Paul	Parking Pataweyo	5 episodes
2011	Coming Up[9]	Micah	Episode: "Micah"
	The Fades	Michael "Mac" Armstrong	6 episodes
	Black Mirror	Bingham "Bing" Madsen	Episode: "Fifteen Million Merits"
	Random	Brother	Television film
2014	Babylon	Matt Coward	7 episodes
2018	Watership Down	Bluebell (voice)	Miniseries
2021	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Daniel Kaluuya/St. Vincent"
2022	All or Nothing: Arsenal	Narrator	Docuseries

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Location	Notes
2008–2009	Oxford Street		Royal Court Theatre, London	[10][11]
2010	Sucker Punch	Leon
2013	Trelawny of the 'Wells'	Tom Wrench	Donmar Warehouse, London
	A Season in the Congo	Joseph Mobutu	Young Vic, London
2016	Blue/Orange	Christopher

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Daniel Kaluuya
• List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain
• List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees – Youngest winners for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• List of actors with Academy Award nominations
• List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories
• List of Black Golden Globe winners and nominees