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Kwame Kwei-Armah is a Actor British born on 24 march 1967

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah
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Birth name Ian Roberts
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 24 march 1967 (57 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE (born 24 March 1967 in Hillingdon, London), born Ian Roberts, is a British actor, playwright, singer and broadcaster. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End. (Ray Harrison Graham's Fringe First award-winning play GARY played at the Arts Theatre in 1990.) Kwei-Armah's award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 2005. He voiced Mtambo in The Lorax.

Brought up in Southall, he changed his name at the age of 19 after tracing his family history, through the slave trade back to his ancestral African roots in Ghana. His parents were born in Grenada. He has four children.

On 1 July 2011, he became Artistic Director of Center Stage in Baltimore, MD, succeeding Irene Lewis.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

He became the Chancellor of the University of the Arts on 7 March 2011.

Usually with

Renny Harlin
Renny Harlin
(1 films)
Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent
(2 films)
Leonardo Pieraccioni
Leonardo Pieraccioni
(1 films)
Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi
(1 films)
Oliver Parker
Oliver Parker
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kwame Kwei-Armah (5 films)

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Fade to Black
Fade to Black (2006)
, 1h39
Directed by Oliver Parker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Films about television, Political films
Actors Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Paz Vega, Christopher Walken, Anna Galiena, Violante Placido
Roles Joe Black
Rating54% 2.700452.700452.700452.700452.70045
The year is 1948. His Hollywood career deadlocked, Orson Welles (Danny Huston) is in need to get over his failed marriage to Rita Hayworth. When he travels to Rome for the lead role in Black Magic, an actor is murdered on set and Welles finds himself allured by the deceased's beautiful stepdaughter (Paz Vega). Soon Welles becomes embroiled in dangerous political games as the run-up to post-war elections surfaces.
Pride
Pride (2004)
, 1h30
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about cats, Films about lions, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kate Winslet, Sean Bean, Robbie Coltrane, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Martin Freeman
Roles Lush (voice)
Rating62% 3.1020253.1020253.1020253.1020253.102025
Suki, her cowardly brother Linus, and their conceited cousin Fleck are all lion cubs. When two rogue lions called Dark and Harry known as "The Wanderers" attack and while the lionesses help, they kill Fleck's mother leaving him an orphan. Suki and Linus decide to go exploring and find out how the Wanderers got across the river. Their mother Macheeba thought it impossible for the Wanderers to get across as there are Nile crocodiles in the river. Suki and Linus find a dead tree making a bridge, which is probably how the Wanderers got across. Elephants destroy the bridge leaving the cubs (and the Wanderers) trapped. When they meet Dark, he saves them from a pack of spotted hyenas, and Suki develops a crush on him. She and Linus have no choice but to swim across the river, and they successfully do.
Gunslinger's Revenge
Gunslinger's Revenge (1998)
, 1h35
Directed by Giovanni Veronesi
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, Sandrine Holt, Alessia Marcuzzi, Michelle Gomez
Roles Rastafarian
Rating44% 2.2186052.2186052.2186052.2186052.218605
The story begins in 1860 in Basin Field, a small (fictional) village on the slopes of the great mountains that border Canada in the "Far West." The film depicts the idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife and half-breed son, who narrates the tale. The main character is "Doc" (Pieraccioni), the village doctor, his Indian wife Pearl (Holt) and their son Jeremiah. Their idyllic life is disrupted when his grandfather, an old gunslinger, shows up on the farm. Doc's father Johnny Lowen (Keitel), a famous gunfighter, suddenly returns. Johnny says he has returned home to find rest and to finally retire. The family is not happy with his return, given his past lifestyle and mistreatment of his family.
Cutthroat Island
Cutthroat Island (1995)
, 2h4
Directed by Renny Harlin
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide, Stan Shaw
Roles Dawg's Pirate
Rating57% 2.85092.85092.85092.85092.8509
In 1668 Jamaica, Morgan Adams hunts down her uncle and fellow pirate Dawg Brown, who has captured her father, Black Harry. Black Harry has one of three pieces of a map to a huge stash of gold on the remote Cutthroat Island. Dawg has another piece, having stolen it from the corpse of a third brother, Richard, while a fourth brother, Mordechai, has the last piece. Harry refuses to give Dawg his piece and escapes with Morgan's help, but not before being mortally wounded. A dying Harry reveals to his daughter the location of the map piece: on his scalp.