Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I’ve been a fan of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje since his days on ‘Oz’ but something about him has always made me feel a certain way. I’ve long suspected he may have self-hate issues, and not to my surprise, he has confirmed it, well, he used to have self-hate issues. In a fascinating new interview with The [...]Read Full Story

[Related: Sundance London, WorldView Hand out $48,000 to Four Movies, Including Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's 'Farming'] When he was six weeks old, his parents – a Nigerian couple studying in London – gave him to a white working-class couple in Essex ...Read Full Story

The first batch of images from The Thing – the prequel to John Carpenter’s classic film of the same name – have been released online. The original is a personal favourite of mine, not just because it features Kurt Russell sporting a ‘eat nails and sh*t bricks’ beard, but also because it was a gloriously entertaining and tense experience from start to finish. The Thing is directed by Matthis van Heijningen Jr. and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric...Read Full Story

Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje attends the 2011 Angel Ball To Benefit Gabrielle's Angel Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street on Oct. 17, 2011 in New York City *Before the modeling, the big Hollywood career and the iconic turns on “Oz” and “Lost,” Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was on the verge of becoming a lawyer in his native UK. Born in London to Nigerian parents in 1967, the actor received a Master of Law from University of London’s King’s College. But the profession, as it turned out, was not...Read Full Story

My film doesn't judge in that sense ... paid for by his parents – his father was a qualified barrister with a lucrative practice in Nigeria. The relationship with his birth parents had not improved in the intervening years. He was a street kid who ...Read Full Story