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Kingsley Ben-Adir
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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).
Known For

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Midsomer Murders
1997

Peaky Blinders
2013

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Death in Paradise
2011

Vera
2011

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

The Oscars
1953

Barbie
2023

The OA
2016

Secret Invasion
2023

Love Life
2020

High Fidelity
2020

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2017

Soulmates
2020

The Commuter
2018

The Comey Rule
2020

Noelle
2019

Bob Marley: One Love
2024

One Night in Miami...
2020

Trespass Against Us
2016
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