Idris Elba (born September 6, 1972) is a British television, theatre, and film actor who has starred in both British and American productions. One of his first acting roles was in the soap opera Family Affairs. Since then he has worked in a variety of TV and movie projects including Ultraviolet, The Wire, No Good Deed and Zootopia.
Known For
Movies
- 28 Weeks Later
2007
- Thor
2011
- The Reaping
2007
- Luther: The Fallen Sun
2023
- Kroos
2019
- We All Die Young
- American Gangster
2007
- Takers
2010
- The Human Contract
2008
- Prom Night
2008
- The Gospel
2005
- The Losers
2010
- RocknRolla
2008
- The Unborn
2009
- An Audience with Adele
2021
- This Christmas
2007
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall o...
2021
- Madonna: Rebel Heart To...
2016
- Legacy
2010
- Sometimes in April
2005
- Daddy's Little Girls
2007
- The Suicide Squad
2021
- Obsessed
2009
- Pacific Rim
2013
- Infernus
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of ...
2011
- Prometheus
2012
- Thor: The Dark World
2013
- Fixed
2025
- Extraction 2
2023
- Gumball 3000: LDN 2 NYC
2011
- Code Red: The Making of...
2007
- No Good Deed
2014
- Mandela: Long Walk to F...
2013
- Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
- How Hip Hop Changed the...
2011
- Sorted
2000
- The Jungle Book
2016
- Beasts of No Nation
2015
- Bang!
- Above the Below
- One Love
2003
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2024
- Second Coming
2014
- How Clubbing Changed th...
2012
- Belle Maman
1999
- Enchanted Kingdom
2014
- Gold: A Journey With Id...
2023
- The Boy, the Mole, the ...
2022
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
- 100 Streets
2016
- Bastille Day
2016
- The Gunman
2015
- Untitled Idris Elba/Sim...
- Star Trek Beyond
2016
- Zootopia 2
2025
- King for a Term
2015
- Food 2050
2022
- The Path to Vengeance: ...
2012
- Zootopia
2016
- Thor: Ragnarok
2017
- All In The Game
2006
- Finding Dory
2016
- The Dark Tower
2017
- Molly's Game
2017
- The Mountain Between Us
2017
- Mandela, My Dad and Me
2015
- Marine Life Interviews
2016
- Buffalo Soldiers
2002
- Cut from a Different Cl...
2015
- The Furious Gods: Makin...
2012
- Avengers: Infinity War
2018
- Fast & Furious Presents...
2019
- Cats
2019
- Three Thousand Years of...
2022
- Spiders and Flies
1996
- Concrete Cowboy
2020
- The Harder They Fall
2021
- Heads of State
2025
- Beast
2022
- Idris Elba Meets Paul M...
2020
- Tapping the Wire
2007
- Stay Frosty
- One World: Together at ...
2020
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2022
- Passion Project
2021
- The Casting of Frank St...
2024
- Untitled Kathryn Bigelo...
- Hammer Down
- Masters of the Universe
2026
- A very Sonic Christmas
2024
- Children of Blood and B...
2027
- Idris Elba: Our Knife C...
2025
- F1 75 Live at The O2
2025
TV Shows
- Ultraviolet
1998
- Luther
2010
- The Wire
2002
- The One Show
2006
- CSI: Miami
2002
- The Office
2005
- The Tyra Banks Show
2005
- Girlfriends
2000
- Silent Witness
1996
- Soul Food
2000
- Space Precinct
1994
- Absolutely Fabulous
1992
- Crocodile Shoes
1994
- The Ruth Rendell Myster...
1987
- Dangerfield
1995
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
- Idris Elba: King of Spe...
2013
- Idris Elba: No Limits
2015
- The Tonight Show Starri...
2014
- The Daily Show
1996
- The Governor
1995
- Bramwell
1995
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detec...
2009
- Guerrilla
2017
- 2point4 Children
1991
- Made in Hollywood
2005
- The Tonight Show Starri...
2014
- five by five
2017
- In the Long Run
2018
- Hijack
2023
- The Graham Norton Show
2007
- Oprah Talks COVID-19
2020
- Knuckles
2024
- The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
- What If...?
2021
- Late Night with Seth Me...
2014
- Law & Order
1990
- Turn Up Charlie
2019
- Idris Elba's Fight Scho...
2022
- The Frame
2013
- The Shop
2018
- Saturday Night Live
1975
- Human Playground
2022
- The Graham Norton Show
2007
- Elba vs. Block
2020
- The View
1997
- The Inspector Lynley My...
2002
- MTV Europe Music Awards
1994
- Zootopia+
2022
- Hack
2002
- Hot Ones
2015
- The Late Show with Step...
2015
- The Oscars
1953
- Coronavirus, Explained
2020
- A World of Calm
2020
- Idris Elba: Fighter
2017
- Erased: WW2's Heroes of...
2024
- Things Fall Apart
- Lie Detector
2018
- The Last Leg
2013
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
- Number One on the Call ...
2025