Ukweli Roach

Acting

Born September 22, 1986, Derby, England

Training Ukweli Roach trained at RADA. Theatre For the National Theatre: Bacchae Other theatre includes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida; Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Young Vic; Nightfall at the Bridge; 5, 6, 7, 8 (Rough Cuts) at the Royal Court; and Romeo and Juliet and Helen at Shakespeare’s Globe TV Piglets, Big Mood, Wolf, Annika, The Midwich Cuckcoos, Humans (season three), Hard Sun, Blindspot, Dickensian, The Royals, Grantchester, Silk (season three), Drifters, Starlings, Monroe (season two) and Eternal Law Film One Day, Venus and the Sun and StreetDance 3D (Published September 2025)

Filmography

• 2025National Theatre Live: Bacchae — Dionysos
• Piglets — Sergeant Mike Gunn
• Wolf — Jack Caffery
• The Midwich Cuckoos — Sam Clyde
• Annika — DS Tyrone Clarke
• Blindspot — Robert Borden
• Humans — Anatole
• Grantchester — Johnny Johnson
• Eternal Law — Thomas (Tom) Greening
• Starlings
• Death in Paradise — Archie Garwood
• 2011One Day — Rapper
• Silk — Jordan Sinclair
• 2011Venus & the Sun — Adam
• 2010Romeo and Juliet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Tybalt
• 2010StreetDance 3D — Jay