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Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya (born 24 February 1989) is a English actor and writer. Kaluuya began his career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He subsequently appeared in the first two seasons of the British television series Skins, in which he co-wrote some of the episodes. Playing the lead role in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London, Kaluuya won rave reviews for his performance and he won both the Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer. He gained further acclaim for his performance as Bingham "Bing" Madsen in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits". He then played Michael "Tealeaf" Fry in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville and Michael "Mac" Armstrong in the BBC Three horror drama series The Fades. Kaluuya appeared as Agent Colin Tucker in the 2011 film Johnny English Reborn and portrayed Black Death in the 2013 film Kick-Ass 2. In 2015, he had a supporting role in Denis Villeneuve's film Sicario. In 2018, he portrayed W'Kabi in Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster film Black Panther and appeared in Steve McQueen's heist film Widows. He has been nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his leading role as Chris Washington in the 2017 horror film Get Out. In 2018, he won the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
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Former Troika Reps Launch B-Side Management & Production With Clients Including Daniel Kaluuya, Jenna Coleman, Karen Gillan, Peter Capaldi, Matt Smith

EXCLUSIVE: Four former Troika reps have launched London-based B-Side Management and B-Side Production with an impressive client list including Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Jenna Coleman (Victoria), Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who), Karen Gillan (Avengers: Endgame), Keeley Hawes (Line Of Duty), Matt Smith (Doctor Who), Rafe Spall (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Joe Cole (Gangs Of London) and Barry Keoghan (Eternals).
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Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I’m trying to stay fearless, but it becomes harder when you’re more visible’

On the set of his new film Queen & Slim, the British actor Daniel Kaluuya realised something about himself. “It’s really difficult to play people that are content,” he explains. “If you look at Get Out, my character was riddled with trauma, guilt and borderline self-hate. In Queen & Slim, Slim is just, ‘I believe in God, I want a family, I don’t think I’m gonna change the world’. There’s less conflict. But, honestly, those people are so valuable. Because that’s the good life. They’re so content and so fulfilled.”It’s a statement that suggests that, deep down, Kaluuya isn’t. Which...
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5 Times Daniel Kaluuya Dominated The Screen

Daniel Kaluuya’s first serious gig as an actor was on the British teen drama Skins in 2007. From there, it took over 14 years of consistent excellence for Daniel to make a name for himself as one of Hollywood’s most respected leading men. He’s since been nominated for the BET Awards “Best Actor” honor twice and is in the running to win this year, thanks to his masterful performance as late Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in the historical drama Judas & The Black Messiah. Tune in to this year's BET Awards to see if Daniel will take home his first ever BET Award and keep reading for five times he’s outdone himself on screen.
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Mix-Up Of Daniel Kaluuya And Leslie Odom Jr. At the Oscars Goes Viral, But Journalist Denies Mistake

This year’s Oscars were vastly different in every sense of the word. This year marked a record year for people of color with nominations and wins. In the Best Supporting Actor category, Judas and the Black Messiah’s Daniel Kaluuya ended up taking the win over co-star LaKeith Stanfield and One Night in Miami’s Leslie Odom Jr. Kaluuya’s Oscar win was a high point in an otherwise tame ceremony. But the Black Panther star’s moment took a turn as he was seemingly confused with fellow nominee Odom Jr. The moment went viral, leading to the journalist denying the mistake.
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Oscars 2021 winners, from Nomadland to Chloé Zhao and Daniel Kaluuya

This year's Oscars was a little bit different than usual. Play-off music didn't interrupt acceptance speeches, and the ceremony was more relaxed. But more importantly, the Academy Awards made history, with Chloé Zhao becoming the second ever woman to win best director and the first woman of color to nab that award. Minari's Youn Yuh-jung won best supporting actress, the first Korean acting win in the show's 93-year history. Perhaps surprisingly, Anthony Hopkins won best actor for The Father, beating the late Chadwick Boseman, who had been the favorite. On Monday, Hopkins spoke warmly of Boseman in a video posted to Instagram.
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Adele Glows As She & Drake Help Daniel Kaluuya Celebrate His Oscar Win At Glitzy LA Party

Adele and Drake managed to make Daniel Kaluuya’s post Oscars victory party a starry A-list event. We have the video and photos of the music superstars at the bash. Actor Daniel Kaluuya won Oscar night in more ways than one. He took home the Academy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Supporting role for Judas and the Black Messiah, and then he threw an ultra exclusive A-list after party with two of the biggest names in music in attendance. The 32-year-old’s guests included both Drake, 34, and the highly reclusive Adele, 32. The mobile bar service The Curly Bartender shared an Instagram video showing Drizzy mingling with other guests including rapper J.I.D., and even gave Drake a shout-out.
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Golden Globes Voter's Exchange With Daniel Kaluuya at the Oscars Is Drawing Loads of Heat

A member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group of journalists who vote on the Golden Globes, is under fire Monday over a question she asked Judas and the Black Messiah star Daniel Kaluuya after he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor Sunday night. Journalist Margaret Gardiner asked Kaluuya about being directed by Regina King, who directed One Night in Miami, not Judas. Gardner later went on Twitter and insisted she did not mistake him for Leslie Odom Jr., who was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor and did star in One Night in Miami.
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Did a Journalist Really Mistake Daniel Kaluuya for Leslie Odom Jr. at the Oscars?

Winning an Academy Award is undoubtedly a huge deal—but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re immune from being misidentified. Daniel Kaluuya learned that the hard way shortly after winning best supporting actor for his performance as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah at Sunday’s ceremony. In an exceedingly awkward moment caught on camera in the Oscars press room, South African journalist and former Miss Universe Margaret Gardiner appears to mistake Kaluuya with his fellow best supporting actor nominee, One Night In Miami’s Leslie Odom Jr.—asking Kaluuya what it was like to work with One Night in Miami director Regina King.
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Daniel Kaluuya Unintentionally Summed Up Oscars Diversity the Best: There’s Still a Lot of Work to Do

There were high hopes for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)’ 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. For the first time in history, nearly half of the nominees in acting categories were people of color, and 70 women were nominated across all 23 categories. These were unprecedented numbers for an awards show that has existed for nearly a century. While some of this change resulted from AMPAS’ Academy Aperture 2020 Diversity Initiative (A2020) and the Tarana Burke-founded #MeToo Movement, the events of 2020 also shook Hollywood to its core.
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Oscars Reporter Confuses Daniel Kaluuya for Leslie Odom Jr.

In a true masterclass of what not to do, a British reporter in last night's Academy Awards press room mistook newly minted Best Supporting Actor winner Daniel Kaluuya for his fellow nominee Leslie Odom Jr. Footage of the clip is now going viral, showing Kaluuya gracefully ignoring the journalist's mistake....
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Reporter Denies Mistaking Daniel Kaluuya for Leslie Odom Jr. in Controversial Oscars Gaffe

Margaret Gardiner, a journalist for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, generated controversy in the Oscars 2021 virtual press room after she seemingly mistook Daniel Kaluuya for Leslie Odom Jr. Gardiner was in the press room covering the Oscars for the U.K.’s Sunday Times. During Kaluuya’s press conference following his Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor, Gardiner asked him about working with Regina King. Shaka King directed Kaluuya in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” and Regina King directed Leslie Odom Jr. in “One Night in Miami.” Both Kaluuya and Odom were nominated for Supporting Actor.
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New on DVD: Daniel Kaluuya shines as Fred Hampton in 'Judas and the Black Messiah'

A leading awards-season contender that just nabbed two Oscars headlines the new releases for the week of May 4. "Judas and the Black Messiah": Daniel Kaluuya recently won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Illinois Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, killed in his sleep by Chicago law enforcement in 1969, with LaKeith Stanfield nominated in the same category for playing the "Judas" in question, a man who infiltrates the Black Panthers at the behest of the FBI.
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Glenn Close says Daniel Kaluuya helped her prep ‘Da Butt’ Oscars dance

Glenn Close has said Daniel Kaluuya helped her prepare a now iconic moment at the Oscars in which she danced to Experience Unlimited’s 1988 track ‘Da Butt’. The actress stole the show during a brief trivia interlude at Sunday’s ceremony, in which Lil Rel Howery quizzed the actress on her musical knowledge and she then danced to the track.