Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Born: August 22, 1967
in Islington, London, England, UK
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ( born 22 August 1967) is a Nigerian–English actor, and former fashion model best known for his roles as Mr. Eko on Lost, Simon Adebisi on Oz and Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity.

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The Union
Title: The Union
Released: August 16, 2024
Type: Movie
A construction worker from Jersey is quickly thrust into the world of espionage when his high school ex recruits him on a high-stakes mission.
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Title: Fired on Mars
Released: April 20, 2023
Type: TV
After taking a one-way trip to the Red Planet, graphic designer Jeff Cooper finds himself adrift when his bosses unceremoniously eliminate his role.
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Marlowe
Title: Marlowe
Character: Cedric
Released: February 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.
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Title: My Dad the Bounty Hunter
Character: Emperor Odomon (voice)
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: TV
An intergalactic bounty hunter takes dad duty to new extremes when his two kids accidentally hitch a ride with him to outer space and crash his mission.
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Title: His Dark Materials
Character: Commander Ogunwe
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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Title: The Fix
Character: Sevvy Johnson
Released: March 18, 2019
Type: TV
High-profile district attorney Maya Travis fled L.A. after devastating defeat when prosecuting an A-list actor for double murder. Eight years later, the same celebrity is under suspicion for another murder, and Maya is lured back to the DA’s office for another chance at justice.
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Title: Watership Down
Character: Captain Vervain (voice)
Released: December 22, 2018
Type: TV
Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.
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Farming
Title: Farming
Character: Femi
Released: September 8, 2018
Type: Movie
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
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Title: Ten Days in the Valley
Character: John Bird
Released: October 1, 2017
Type: TV
Single mother Jane Sadler's life is turned upside down when her young daughter goes missing in the middle of the night. And just like in the controversial police TV show she produces, everything is a mystery, everyone has a secret and no one can be trusted.
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Elizabeth Blue
Title: Elizabeth Blue
Character: Dr. Bowman
Released: September 22, 2017
Type: Movie
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
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Wetlands
Title: Wetlands
Character: Babel "Babe" Johnson
Released: September 15, 2017
Type: Movie
A man attempts to make a new start in Atlantic City with the help of his daughter and a new business partner.
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Tour de Pharmacy
Title: Tour de Pharmacy
Character: Olusegun Okorocha
Released: July 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.
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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
Title: Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
Character: Bilal (voice)
Released: September 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.
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Suicide Squad
Title: Suicide Squad
Character: Waylon Jones / Killer Croc
Released: August 3, 2016
Type: Movie
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
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Concussion
Title: Concussion
Character: Dave Duerson
Released: November 12, 2015
Type: Movie
A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
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Trumbo
Title: Trumbo
Character: Virgil Brooks
Released: October 27, 2015
Type: Movie
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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Title: Major Lazer
Character: Major Lazer (voice)
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: TV
Set in the future, Major Lazer is a Jamaican superhero who fights against the dystopian forces that have ruined society that are led by President Whitehall and General Rubbish. Major Lazer is assisted in his fight by President Whitehall's daughter Penny and hacker Blkmrkt.
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Title: American Odyssey
Character: Frank Majors
Released: April 5, 2015
Type: TV
In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.
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Annie
Title: Annie
Character: Nash
Released: December 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
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Pompeii
Title: Pompeii
Character: Atticus
Released: February 18, 2014
Type: Movie
In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
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Thor: The Dark World
Title: Thor: The Dark World
Character: Algrim / Kurse
Released: October 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Title: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Character: Sergeant Pike
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
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Bullet to the Head
Title: Bullet to the Head
Character: Robert Nkomo Morel
Released: November 14, 2012
Type: Movie
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
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Title: Hunted
Character: Deacon Crane
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: TV
Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.
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Best Laid Plans
Title: Best Laid Plans
Character: Joseph
Released: February 3, 2012
Type: Movie
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.
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The Thing
Title: The Thing
Character: Derek Jameson
Released: October 12, 2011
Type: Movie
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
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Killer Elite
Title: Killer Elite
Character: Agent
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Malko
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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Faster
Title: Faster
Character: The Evangelist
Released: November 23, 2010
Type: Movie
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Title: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Character: Heavy Duty
Released: August 3, 2009
Type: Movie
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Title: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Character: Majestic
Released: November 9, 2005
Type: Movie
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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The Mistress of Spices
Title: The Mistress of Spices
Character: Kwesi
Released: September 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.
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Unstoppable
Title: Unstoppable
Character: Junod
Released: October 20, 2004
Type: Movie
The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan. He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life.
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Title: Lost
Character: Eko Tunde
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Title: Monk
Character: Samuel Waingaya
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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The Bourne Identity
Title: The Bourne Identity
Character: Nykwana Wombosi
Released: June 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
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Lip Service
Title: Lip Service
Character: Sebastion
Released: July 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Two very different former college roommates reunite under strange circumstances.
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The Mummy Returns
Title: The Mummy Returns
Character: Lock-Nah
Released: May 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.
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Starwater
Title: Starwater
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Made by Scott William Winters, Starwater is a star-studded experimental film shot while doing the HBO series ‘Oz’.
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Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Title: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Character: Joe
Released: April 23, 2000
Type: Movie
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
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Legionnaire
Title: Legionnaire
Character: Luther
Released: December 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
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Title: Cracker
Released: September 18, 1997
Type: TV
Crime drama based on the UK TV series about Gerry "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a brilliant but troubled criminal psychologist working alongside the Los Angeles police department.
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Title: Pensacola: Wings of Gold
Released: September 15, 1997
Type: TV
Pensacola: Wings of Gold is a syndicated American action/adventure drama series based at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.
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Title: Oz
Character: Simon Adebisi
Released: July 12, 1997
Type: TV
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Character: Cabe Attucks
Released: May 11, 1997
Type: TV
New England, 1886: a creature of unknown origin is destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron willed sailor, to learn the truth about the monster roaming the seas. In their search, they come across the sophisticated submarine Nautilus, secretly cruising under the ocean, and its charismatic captain Nemo.
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Deadly Voyage
Title: Deadly Voyage
Character: Emmanuel
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port.
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Title: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Character: Hitu
Released: November 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
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Title: Soccer AM
Released: August 12, 1995
Type: TV
Soccer AM is a British Saturday-morning football-based comedy/talk show, predominantly based around the Premier League. Originally presented by Jane Hoffen, Gary Stevens and Russ Williams, they lasted just a year before Helen Chamberlain and Tim Lovejoy replaced them, where Lovejoy served for over a decade. He has since been replaced by Andy Goldstein and, more recently, Max Rushden. The show has been aired on Sky Sports 2 each Saturday morning of the football season since 1995 from 7:00am or 9:00am to noon originally and currently between 10:00am and 12:00pm. In early 2009, the 500th episode was broadcast. Although the show is filmed live from 2010 it has been broadcast on a momentary delay due to bad language and/or inappropriate content from certain guests. The show's current sponsor is Procter & Gamble through their Head & Shoulders brand. The show was previously sponsored by Frijj, a brand of milkshake, after Dairy Crest signed a £2 million sponsorship deal. Parts of the show have remained since the beginning, whilst new items have been introduced each season. In that respect, it is almost the same every week, the difference being new football footage and comedy skits. Every week sees a new group of celebrity guests, generally featuring at least one footballer who is free on the Saturday, and a mix of musicians, TV personalities, and other sportsmen.
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Delta of Venus
Title: Delta of Venus
Character: The Clairvoyant
Released: June 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
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Congo
Title: Congo
Character: Kahega
Released: June 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
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Title: New York Undercover
Character: Cliff Ramsey
Released: September 8, 1994
Type: TV
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.
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Title: Red Shoe Diaries
Released: June 27, 1992
Type: TV
Jake takes out an ad in the newspaper after the suicide of his unfaithful fiancée, in an effort to understand the reasons for the betrayal. By soliciting the secret diaries of other women, he hopes to find some reconciliation with the truth.
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Title: LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Released: September 5, 1988
Type: TV
A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.
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Late In Summer
Title: Late In Summer
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between a lonely farmer’s wife and a Black American GI that leads to first love in middle life and an impossible choice.