Biography
Kingsley Ben-Adir (born 20 November 1986) is a British actor. His credits include playing pathologist Marcus Summer in ITV's Vera (2014–2018), private detective Karim Washington on Netflix's The OA (2019), Colonel Ben Younger in the BBC drama Peaky Blinders (2017–2019), and Gravik in the superhero miniseries Secret Invasion (2023). He starred as Malcolm X in the Amazon Studios film One Night in Miami... (2020), for which he won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performer, and as Bob Marley in Bob Marley: One Love (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kingsley Ben-Adir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Roles across career
Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).
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Acting credits
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Directing
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Other crew
Most critically rated
Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)
- 1
★ 8.5Peaky Blinders
2013 · tv · as Col Ben Younger
- 2
★ 7.8Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · tv · as Errol
- 3
★ 7.5High Fidelity
2020 · tv · as Russell 'Mac' McCormack
- 4
★ 7.5The OA
2016 · tv · as Karim Washington
- 5
★ 7.5Midsomer Murders
1997 · tv · as Bartholomew Hines
- 6
★ 7.4Death in Paradise
2011 · tv · as Irie Johnson
- 7
★ 7.4Vera
2011 · tv · as Dr Marcus Summer
- 8
★ 7.2The Graham Norton Show
2007 · tv · as Self
Most commercially successful
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
Career timeline
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
