Idris Elba Parents: Meet Winston and Eve: Idris Elba, officially known as Idrissa Akuna Elbais, is an English actor, born September 6, 1972.
He developed a passion for acting at a young age and gradually became one of the most sought-after actors during his career.
Idris Elba began his acting career with a role in the Crimewatch murder reenactments and appeared in a BBC children’s drama series called The Boot Street Band in 1994.
He also played a central character in a first-season episode, a small-time African thief named Charlie Carter, who lost his wife in childbirth and had to figure out how to support his newborn daughter.
Elba joined the cast of the soap opera Family Affairs and later appeared in the television series Ultraviolet and later Dangerfield.
A graduate of the National Youth Theater in London, he is known for roles such as Stringer Bell in The Wire, DCI John Luther in Luther and Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
For his role as Luther, he received four nominations each for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor, winning one of them.
Elba appeared in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Obsessed, and Prometheus. He portrayed Heimdall in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), starting as Thor and Bloodsport in The Suicide Squad.
Elba also starred in Molly’s Game, Pacific Rim and Beasts of No Nation, for which he received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
He also played the role of Rufus Buck in the western The Harder They Fall. Elba has voiced characters in Zootopia, The Jungle Book, Finding Dory and Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
In addition to his acting career, he made his directorial debut in 2018 with an adaptation of Victor Headley’s 1992 novel Yardie. He is also a DJ, performing under the moniker DJ Big Driis or Idris, and as an R&B singer.
In 2016, he was named to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people. As of May 2019, his films have grossed over $9.8 billion at the global box office, including over $3.6 billion in North America, where he is among the top 20 highest-grossing actors.
Idris Elba’s Parents: Meet Winston and Eve
Idris Elba was born in the London Borough of Hackney, London, United Kingdom, to Eve Elba (mother) and Winston Elba (father).
His father is from Sierra Leone and worked at the Ford factory in Dagenham, while his mother is Ghanaian. His parents married in Sierra Leone and later moved to London.