Kwame Kwei-Armah

Personal Info

Birthday

March 24, 1967

(58 years old)

Place of Birth

Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK

Also Known As

Ian Roberts

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Biography

Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is a British actor, playwright, director, singer, and broadcaster. He is best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1999 until 2004. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London.

Known For

Skins

Casualty

Birth of a Nation

Pride

Cutthroat Island

The Afternoon Play

Gunslinger's Revenge

Fade to Black

Filmography

2021
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
as Self
2020
Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent
as Himself
2008
Walter's War
as Daniel Tull
Black Power Salute
as Self
2006
Fade to Black
as Joe Black
2004
Pride
as Lush (voice)
1998
Gunslinger's Revenge
as Rastafarian
1995
Cutthroat Island
as Dawg's Pirate
1991
Escape From Kampala
as Joseph (as Ian Roberts)
1983
Birth of a Nation
as Paul (as Ian Roberts)