David Oyelowo was born in Oxford in 1976. His family originates from Nigeria. David studied Theatre Studies for A level and his teacher suggested he should become an actor. After A levels David enrolled for a year on an Art foundation course before training at LAMDA. Having been offered television work David left LAMDA before completing the course and in 1999 was offered a season with the RSC play ... show all
David Oyelowo was born in Oxford in 1976. His family originates from Nigeria. David studied Theatre Studies for A level and his teacher suggested he should become an actor. After A levels David enrolled for a year on an Art foundation course before training at LAMDA. Having been offered television work David left LAMDA before completing the course and in 1999 was offered a season with the RSC playing roles in Volpone and Oroonoko. In December 2000 David returned to the RSC and became the first black actor to play an English monarch for the company taking the title role in Henry VI. His performance won him the Ian Charleson Award 2001 for best newcomer in a classical play David has become known to television audiences as Danny Hunter in the TV series "Spooks" (2002)" and the critically acclaimed drama "Tomorrow La Scala (2002)", as well as appearances in "Maisie Raine" (1998)" and "Brothers and Sisters" (1998)". He is married to actress Jessica Oyelowo and they have one son. hide
Genres:Drama Countries:UK Directors:John Alexander Actors:Delroy Atkinson | Peter Brooke | Benedict Cumberbatch | Mark David | Damien Devaney | Michael Elwyn | Terence Frisch | Jonathan Harden | Karl Johnson | Bentley Kalu | Eoin Macken | David Oyelowo | Shaun Parkes | Teddy Price | Hugh Quarshie
As adapted from the bestselling 2004 novel of the same name by Andrea Levy, the miniseries Small Island observes the experiences of two very different married couples - one Jamaican, the other British - whose lives intersect at a point in post-WWII England when the relationship between their parent countries is about to irrevocably change. David Oyelowo and Naomie Harris star as Gilbert and Hortense, Jamaican immigrants who wed in a marriage of convenience and must battle bigotry and intense social rejection from the British on a daily basis. All that they really want is to be proud and happy subjects at the United Kingdom, when it would be easy to feel resentment and fury given the circumstances: many of their fellow countrymen are the descendants of Jamaicans who had been forcibly enslaved to the British Empire in an earlier era. Meanwhile, the couple's married English landlords, Bernard (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Queenie (Ruth Wilson) are still rebounding from the experience of a lengthy wartime separation. Queenie projects an unusual attitude toward Gilbert and Hortense, given her lack of bigotry and unquestioning acceptance, but this ironically threatens to create more problems than it solves.
Genres: Drama
