Simon Adebisi

Simon Adebisi is a fictional character played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the HBO dramatic series Oz. Adebisi serves as one of the main characters in the first four seasons. After the first half of season four, his character was killed off the show so Akinnuoye-Agbaje could film the movie The Mummy Returns.

Adebisi is one of the most feared and powerful inmates in Oz. A notorious drug dealer, killer, and rapist, Adebisi is feared by inmates and guards alike until his death in the midseason finale of season 4.

Prisoner #93A234. Convicted May 2, 1993 - Murder in the first degree. Sentence: Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Simon Adebisi is serving a life sentence without parole for beheading an undercover cop with a machete. An extremely muscular man, he can physically intimidate many of his fellow inmates. As one of the leaders of the Homeboys (The Black Gang in Oz), Adebisi is considered one of the prison's most dangerous inmates, and becomes one of the most recognizable characters on the show. He is well known for his trademark tilted hat, which Akinnuoye-Agbaje suggested was inspired by the "Area Boys" of Lagos, Nigeria.

Adebisi is Nigerian - specifically Yoruba - and speaks with a strong accent, but had been in America for about 15 years prior to his incarceration. Adebisi is shown to be short-tempered, hedonistic as well as capable of engineering and executing long-term plans through intellect and manipulation.

Adebisi began as a minor character; a lieutenant of Jefferson Keane. Following Keane's execution in Episode 4, Paul Markstrom takes over the Homeboys until Adebisi and Kenny Wangler kill him when it is discovered he is an undercover cop. Adebisi then takes over and partners in the drug trade with the Italians. Italian Mafia boss Nino Schibetta saw him as the best drug player among the black inmates and respected his leadership skills. Unbeknownst to Schibetta, Adebisi and Ryan O'Reily intend to take over the drug trade and began putting crushed glass into Schibetta's food to slowly kill him. Adebisi also intimidates his new cellmate Tobias Beecher with fear of a future rape. Beecher accepts an offer of help from seemingly helpful Vernon Schillinger and moves out of Adebisi's cell and into Schillinger's cell. Adebisi intimidates Beecher as he leaves but backs off when Schillinger comes to Beecher's defense. Adebisi laughs realizing that Beecher is unaware that Schillinger is the leader of the Aryans and plans on making Beecher his sex slave. In the Season 1 finale, Adebisi, along with O'Reily, Kareem Said, Miguel Alvarez and Scott Ross, is a leader of a riot in their prison unit (known as "Emerald City"). He is taken prisoner by the other inmates, however, when he is incapacitated due to heroin withdrawal. In that episode, it is revealed that Adebisi's crime was exploited to have swept the previous governor out of office and gave Governor James Devlin his opening to reinstate the death penalty.

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