Person
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Acting · Born 1967-03-24 · Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK
Biography
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is a British actor, playwright, director, singer, and broadcaster. He is best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1999 until 2004. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London.
Known for
Casualty
Lloyd Wincott
Skins
Personal Trainer
Lewis
Danny Adebayou
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self
The Afternoon Play
Walter Weinberg
Cutthroat Island
Dawg's Pirate
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
2003
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Male C. I. D. Officer
Breaking
Writer
Twelfth Night
Writer
Filmography
- 2022BreakingWriter
- 2021Twelfth NightWriter
- 2021Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black FilmmakingSelf
- 2021Swingin' the Dream
- 2020Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a ContinentHimself
- 2008Walter's WarDaniel Tull
- 2008Black Power SaluteSelf
- 2007LewisDanny Adebayou
- 2007SkinsPersonal Trainer
- 2006Fade to BlackJoe Black
- 2004PrideLush (voice)
- 2004Elmina’s KitchenWriter
- 2003Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
- 2003The Afternoon PlayWalter Weinberg
- 1998Gunslinger's RevengeRastafarian
- 1997An Unsuitable Job for a WomanMale C. I. D. Officer
- 1996Never Mind the BuzzcocksSelf
- 1995Cutthroat IslandDawg's Pirate
- 1991Escape From KampalaJoseph (as Ian Roberts)
- 1986CasualtyLloyd Wincott
- 1983Birth of a NationPaul (as Ian Roberts)
- 1980The Latchkey ChildrenDuke
- —BonerWriter
- —The SaintScreenplay
- —The CollaborationDirector
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