David Oyelowo – The Biography Of David Oyelowo

• Profession: actor
• Sign: Aries
• Date of birth: Thursday, April 01, 1976 (age: 43 years)
• Country: United Kingdom

In 2015, he played Martin Luther King in Selma : a decisive role for the actor, since he is nominated for the Golden Globes. However, this consecration is not a surprise as the career of the British artist seemed all drawn from childhood.

As a child, his teachers already advised him to become an actor. Then the TV offered him roles even though he had not finished his studies at the academy of music and drama. In 1999, he went to the theatre and played with the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company. He notably plays King Henry VI: he will be the first actor to play an English king with this company!

In 2002, he returned to the small screen, where he joined the cast of the MI-5 series. His first film appearances will take place the following year: first in A Sound of Thunder, with Edward Burns and Ben Kingsley, and then in The Last King of E pod alongside Forest Whitaker. Alternating between small and big screen, we find the series in 2008 in the L ‘ Agence N ° 1 Ladies of e detectives. He will also work for radio series, such as Grace Unshackled: The Olaudah Equiano StoryIn 2007. But his career really take off to the public from 2010, with its remarkable player games in big-budget films: The Plan è you of the Apes (2011), The Help ( 2011), Paperboy (2012) , which will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival, Lincoln (2013), The Butler (2013) Interstellar (2014 ) …

On the heart side, the actor remains very secret: we just know that he is married since 1998 to the actress Jessica Oyelowo and that they have four children together.