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      • He has recently signed a deal with Netflix for another comedy series, this one called Turn Up Charlie, in which he plays a 40-year-old DJ, as he puts it, “dealing with ambition management”.
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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Idris_ElbaIdris Elba - Wikipedia

    In 2021, Elba portrayed mercenary Robert "Milton" DuBois / Bloodsport in James Gunn 's The Suicide Squad. [46] In 2022, Elba was the voice of Knuckles the Echidna in the film Sonic the Hedgehog 2, a sequel to the film Sonic the Hedgehog which is itself based on the franchise of the same name.

  3. Jun 7, 2024 · Elba again returned to his roots when he starred as a struggling DJ in the British TV series Turn Up Charlie (2019), which he cocreated. He then played the villain in the action movie Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), a spin-off from the long-running franchise.

  4. May 31, 2019 · Idris Elba talks with Variety about an early role that paved the way to his being cast in "The Wire" and his career today.

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  5. Oct 14, 2021 · What saved Elba after his father’s death, and helped again during the past year and a half as Covid rolled on, was his job. That’s to say quite literally pretending to be anyone except Idris Elba.

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  6. Nov 14, 2018 · Idris Elba, an affable man from the East End of London who once worked at Ford Dagenham, and who seems remarkably unaffected by his rise to film star, sex symbol and much-loved national ...

  7. Idris Elba is an English actor. He is known for portraying drug trafficker Stringer Bell on the HBO series The Wire, DCI John Luther on the BBC One series Luther and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television ...

  8. Jun 6, 2024 · Idris Elba's work on a new docuseries about World War II was emotional and educational: He tells PEOPLE the struggles that Black soldiers faced in that time "never really hit home" for him until ...

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