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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kingsley Ben-Adir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Frank & Louis — Frank
• 2024Bob Marley: One Love — Bob Marley
• 2023Barbie — Ken
• Secret Invasion — Gravik
• High Fidelity — Russell 'Mac' McCormack
• Love Life — Grant
• 2020One Night in Miami... — Malcolm X
• Soulmates — Franklin
• The Comey Rule — Barack Obama
• 2019Noelle — Jake Hapman
• 2018The Commuter — Agent Garcia
• 2017Diana and I — Russell
• 2017King Arthur: Legend of the Sword — Tristan "Wet Stick"
• The OA — Karim Washington
• 2016Trespass Against Us — Sampson
• Peaky Blinders — Col Ben Younger
• 2012City Slacker — Thug
• Death in Paradise — Irie Johnson
• Vera — Dr Marcus Summer
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Errol
• Midsomer Murders — Bartholomew Hines
• Scorn
• The Arrival — Tom
• The Husbands — Michael

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2023Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion — Self - 'Gravik'
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The Oscars — Self - Performer