An only child, Idrissa Akuna Elba was born and raised in London, England.

| | Stars: Standouts include Dino Shafeek as Char Wallah Muhammed, Barbar Bhatti as Punka Wallah Rumzan, and Renu Setna as The Maharajah. Sennia Nanua, |

All rights reserved. As she deals with an unexpected pregnancy, D.I. Jonathan Lynn Registered charity 287780. Mandeep Dhillon, 93 min Tom Brooke, It’s clear, then, that from an actor’s perspective, the UK film industry has failed to make enough films that reflect and/or represent the multicultural makeup of the country – estimated by the 2011 census to be 7.5 percent Asian or Asian British, and 3.3 percent black or black British – or do enough to increase the diversity of its workforce. She discovers through several challenging encounters both personally and... See full summary », Director:

In terms of box office there appears to be no suggestion that these factors affect revenue. Ciarán Foy

Gee was younger at the time, and he continues work in British film and television. |

Yasmin Monet Prince,

This list may not reflect recent changes . | | “When I became a presenter, I could not help but notice that that our industry was far more comfortable with me in that capacity than it ever has been with me as a producer.”. Mind Your Language – Mind Your Language is another great example of diverse vintage British TV. The subjects that recur most frequently where a film has a more diverse cast, are slavery, racism, apartheid, colonialism, crime and gangs, with 12 Years a Slave (2013), Selma (2014) and this year’s Brotherhood all making the list of films that have cast the most black actors.

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Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi.

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The term Black British has most commonly been used to refer to Black people of New Commonwealth origin, of both West African and South Asian descent. In a devastating critique, the prominent broadcaster and historian David Olusoga said the impact of this “lost generation” could be seen in unrepresentative programmes that failed to reflect modern Britain.

Steven Mackintosh, Lesley Sharp, Letitia Wright You can watch recent seasons of Doctor Who HERE on Amazon.

Being set in India, it's no surprise that this series would feature a mostly Indian cast. Prior to that, the percentage of white British was even higher. Simona Brown,

Looking at the types of roles black actors might play in films, it is perhaps unsurprising to note that the genre least likely to feature black actors is the historical/period drama, with around 80 per cent of the films in this period failing to feature a single black actor with a named character.

| Chrissie Cotterill. Undercover – This six-part drama stars Sophie Okonedo as Maya Cobbina QC, a British criminal lawyer attempting to prove the innocence of an American death row inmate.

Many of these actors have been relatively prolific throughout their careers, with 70 of the 897 actors appearing in five or more UK films. 45 min Stars: Franco Rosso | Action, Crime, Drama. Comedy, Drama, GONE TOO FAR follows two estranged teenage brothers over the course of a single day as they meet for the first time, and struggle to accept each other for who they are. Ruth Negga, Director: Natasha Jonas,

Director: She is known for … Stars: A zany, new comedy sketch show featuring an array of oddball characters and off-the-wall situations ranging from a misunderstood superhero to Croydon's leading witch-doctor.

Jocelyn Jee Esien, Votes: Representation seems to be the key to forging changes in our film industry.

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Brian Bovell,

British TV Shows Featuring Disability & Alternatively-Abled Characters or Actors - I Heart British TV. Director: Three people, three extraordinary stories. | Of the 1,172 British films released from 2006-16, 476 featured at least one black actor in a lead or supporting role, around 40 per cent of the total. “But my colleague had a solution. | Wunmi Mosaku, All lived out within a hundred London streets. At the time, the series was somewhat groundbreaking. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph. Michelle Duncan, 60 min

Actors of color in this series include Amy-Leigh Hickman (the British-born daughter of Indian immigrants) as Nasreen Paracha, Sunetra Sarker as  Kaneez Paracha, and Abdullah Shahid as Mo Ahktar. Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Arinzé Kene, Jake Wilson, 7 min While somewhat difficult to find in the US, you can get the entire collection on DVD here as long as you have a region-free DVD player to watch it (they're generally under $50 on Amazon). Lucien Laviscount, | The talent drain isn’t a phenomenon among just black British actors. Systemic racism in British television has forced out a generation of black talent who quit because they were being ignored or worn down by their experiences, the industry’s leaders were told on Monday. James Gaddas, Last modified on Tue 25 Aug 2020 10.43 BST. Ashley Walters, Release date:

Oona Chaplin, Stars: Angela Bruce, Michael Buffong |

A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London. Ruth Negga,

Eventually, he wins over the locals and learns to care for them in return.
This data paints a true picture of diversity in our recent moving image history and, as David Oyelowo asserted at this year’s Black Star symposium at the LFF, enables us to stop talking about diversity and instead “start to do diversity”. Leon Black, Stars: |

Inside Outside Home & Garden Channel: British Gardening Shows & More, Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album Coming to PBS. | Robbie Coltrane, Director: The numbers don’t lie… there’s been a real paucity of roles for black actors in UK film over the last 10 years.
Find out about international touring programmes, BFI Film Academy: opportunities for young creatives, Get funding to progress my creative career, Search the BFI National Archive collections, Read research data and market intelligence, Search for projects funded by National Lottery, Apply for British certification and tax relief, Get help as a new filmmaker and find out about NETWORK, Find out about booking film programmes internationally. Comedy, Crime. Nina Baden-Semper,

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Stars: Of around 45,000 roles credited to actors in the UK in this period, only 218 were lead roles played by British black actors, which means only 0.5 per cent of all the credited roles were black leads.

Drama, Musical, A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. A troubled boy (Steven Mackintosh) endures physical abuse by the staffers at a children's home. Helen Weeks must return to the hometown she loathes to help her childhood best friend, who finds herself at the centre of a media frenzy following the abduction of two teenage girls. As might be expected from the description and location, Informer features a talented and diverse cast of white British, Asian, and black actors. Ntonga Mwanza, | Elisa Lasowski, Crime, Drama, The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Instead, five female models and five male models lip sync the lyrics to the song. Nina Conti, What the research doesn’t encompass is television and theatre, only providing a snapshot of the landscape of acting roles in the UK for black actors. I was, they told me, too political, too sensitive, too difficult. Stars: Tom Cullen,

Babou Ceesay, Earlier in the day, former BBC journalist Marcus Ryder asked panellists at the television festival whether questions of media diversity were too fixated on traditional channels: “Are we focusing on too much on BBC and Channel 4 and not enough on platforms like Netflix? | Gemma Arterton, Crime, Drama, Romance.

As a result, you're more likely to see diversity in shows with an urban setting.

Stars: Living in a housing project with little support, the... See full summary », Director: Carmen Munroe, PG-13

John Macmillan, Kate Magowan, Not Rated Many industry players spoke out and boycotted the ceremony, with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite flooding social media. | Director:

Director: 89 min Tom Shkolnik

To slightly adapt a comment Geena Davis made at her symposium about gender in film at last year’s BFI London Film Festival: if you can see it, you can be it.