Sope Dirisu

Sope Dirisu

Born: January 9, 1991
in Edgware, London, England, UK
Sope Dirisu (Yoruba: Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù, Yoruba pronunciation: [ʃɔ̄k͡pɛ́ dìɾísù]; born 9 January 1991) is a British actor. He made his film debut in 2016 with Sand Castle, Criminal, and The Huntsman: Winter's War. Since 2020, he has starred as Elliot Carter / Finch in the Sky Atlantic series Gangs of London, while in 2022, he starred as the titular character in the period drama film Mr. Malcolm's List.

Movies for Sope Dirisu...

Tabby McTat
Title: Tabby McTat
Character: Tabby Mctat (voice)
Released: December 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Set in London's streets, follows a musical cat and Fred, a gifted busker, and their warm, amazing friendship.
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Chasing the Night
Title: Chasing the Night
Character: Leon
Released: September 20, 2023
Type: Movie
'Just one more drink' becomes a spontaneous night out for Fatimah and Leon as they avoid the inevitable conversation that awaits at the end.
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Mr. Malcolm's List
Title: Mr. Malcolm's List
Character: Jeremy Malcolm
Released: July 1, 2022
Type: Movie
When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm. Feeling humiliated and determined to exact revenge, she convinces her friend Selina Dalton to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he’s found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.
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Title: Slow Horses
Character: Sean Donovan
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: TV
This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
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Silent Night
Title: Silent Night
Character: James
Released: December 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
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Mothering Sunday
Title: Mothering Sunday
Character: Donald
Released: November 12, 2021
Type: Movie
On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.
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The Colony
Title: The Colony
Character: Tucker
Released: August 26, 2021
Type: Movie
In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.
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Digging
Title: Digging
Character: Kwesi
Released: July 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Ziba, Ché, Neela and Kofi use their devices to take trips through their memories to settle an argument
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Title: Gangs of London
Character: Elliot Finch
Released: April 23, 2020
Type: TV
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
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His House
Title: His House
Character: Bol Majur
Released: January 27, 2020
Type: Movie
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
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Title: His Dark Materials
Character: Sergi (voice)
Released: November 3, 2019
Type: TV
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology, and magic are intertwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.
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A Battle In Waterloo
Title: A Battle In Waterloo
Character: Coleman
Released: August 12, 2019
Type: Movie
During the Battle of Waterloo, a soldier's wife searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and must resort to extraordinary measures to survive.
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Title: State of the Union
Character: Giles
Released: May 6, 2019
Type: TV
Tom and Louise meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. With each successive episode we piece together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.
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Mr. Malcolm's List
Title: Mr. Malcolm's List
Character: Mr. Malcolm
Released: February 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Set in early 1800s England, a young lady (Gemma Chan) engages in courtship with a mysterious wealthy suitor, Mr. Malcolm (Sope Dirisu), unaware of his unattainable list of demands for his future wife. Written by Suzanne Allain, based on her script and novel of the same name, and directed by Emma Holly Jones, the romantic comedy stars Sope Dirisu, Gemma Chan, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Freida Pinto.
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Title: Next of Kin
Character: DS Elliott Hart
Released: January 8, 2018
Type: TV
Whip-smart general practitioner Dr. Mona Harcourt lives in London with her political lobbyist husband Guy and her family. When a bomb goes off in London on the same day that her brother, Dr. Kareem Shirani, is abducted in Pakistan, Mona's charmed life is shaken to its core.
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RSC Live: Coriolanus
Title: RSC Live: Coriolanus
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of the republic of Rome.Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless soldier but a reluctant leader. His ambitious mother attempts to carve him a path to political power, but he struggles to change his nature and do what is required to achieve greatness. In this new city state struggling to find its feet, where the gap between rich and poor is widening every day, Coriolanus must decide who he really is and where his allegiances lie.Rome Season Director, Angus Jackson, completes the Royal Shakespeare Company’s collection of Shakespeare’s Roman plays with a visceral production which sees Sope Dirisu (One Night in Miami, Donmar Warehouse, 2016) take on the title role.
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Sand Castle
Title: Sand Castle
Character: Sergeant Cole
Released: April 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
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Title: five by five
Character: Michael
Released: March 27, 2017
Type: TV
In London, a city of millions, teenager Ash is lost. He wants to be the big man, but reality doesn’t quite deliver. A chance encounter leads him to make a dangerous decision, starting a chain reaction that plays out across these five connected short films.
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Title: The Halcyon
Character: Sonny Sullivan
Released: January 2, 2017
Type: TV
The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
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Criminal
Title: Criminal
Character: SSBN Fire & Control
Released: April 7, 2016
Type: Movie
CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his mission is to eliminate The Dutchman before the hacker launches ICBMs and starts World War III.
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The Huntsman: Winter's War
Title: The Huntsman: Winter's War
Character: Tull
Released: April 6, 2016
Type: Movie
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.
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Title: Undercover
Character: Michael Antwi
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about to take up the post and her life comes under intense public scrutiny, she learns that that her husband Nick has been lying to her for years. Twenty years ago Nick was a fearless and dedicated undercover officer, infiltrating organisations considered a danger to society because of their political beliefs. Nick built himself a fake past and now with his wife unsuspecting and his conscience killing him – his secret identity may compromise the new Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Title: Humans
Character: Fred
Released: June 14, 2015
Type: TV
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
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Title: The Casual Vacancy
Character: Young Doctor
Released: February 15, 2015
Type: TV
The citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after Barry Fairbrother dies.
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Title: The Mill
Character: Peter
Released: July 28, 2013
Type: TV
Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
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Title: Utopia
Character: Roy
Released: January 15, 2013
Type: TV
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Man in Jail
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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The Fight
Title: The Fight
Character: Said
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Two men, who live in the same city but experience vastly different struggles, are drawn into a fight.