idris elba played with hassan johnson in the wire.
idris elba played with hassan johnson in the wire.
who did idris elba play in the wire?
hassan johnson
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idris elba is an english actor, producer, musician and dj, known for playing drug trafficker stringer bell on the hbo series "the wire", dci john luther on the bbc one series "luther" and nelson mandela in the biographical film "" (2013). he has been nominated four times for a golden globe award for best actor – miniseries or television film, winning one and was nominated five times for a primetime emmy award.
idris elba filmography
he had the idea to develop the music from his album "idris elba presents mi mandela" into a show, which ultimately resulted in a play called "tree" which premiered at the manchester international festival in 2019. however, authorship of the piece was disputed. on 2 july 2019, "the guardian" published a story describing how writers tori allen-martin and sarah henley claimed to have been removed from the production under what they described as questionable circumstances. the two writers had worked on the project for four years following an approach from elba asking them to develop his idea for a musical based on the album, on which allen-martin had also collaborated. kwame kwei-armah joined the project in may 2018 and rewrote part of their material. at the time of its premiere "tree" was billed as "created by idris elba and kwame kwei-armah". allen-martin and henley described their creative input as having included research and script-writing, as well as coming up with the play's title, and that after being removed they were threatened with legal action if they went public with the story. elba and kwei-armah both published rebuttals of the writers' account of what happened on twitter.
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