David Oyelowo
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David Oyelowo OBE |
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David Oyelowo, February 2015
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1 April 1976 Oxford, England |
| Residence | Bel Air, Los Angeles, |
| Occupation | Actor, producer |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Spouse(s) | Jessica Oyelowo (m. 1998) |
| Children | 4 |
David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo, OBE (/oʊˈjɛloʊwoʊ/ ə-YEL-ə-woh; born 1 April 1976) is a British Nigerian actor and producer born in England.
He has played supporting roles in the films Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Middle of Nowhere (2012), Lincoln (2012), and garnered praise for portraying Louis Gaines in The Butler (2013). On television, he played MI5 officer Danny Hunter in the British series Spooks (2002–04). Perhaps his highest-profile role was as Martin Luther King Jr. in the American biographical drama film Selma (2014).
Oyelowo was born in Oxford, England, to Nigerian parents of Yoruba ethnicity. He was raised as a Baptist. He grew up in Tooting Bec until he was six, when his family moved to Lagos, Nigeria, where his father Stephen worked for the national airline and mother for a railway company. David attended a "'military-style' boarding school'. They returned to London when Oyelowo was fourteen, settling in Islington.
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