Idris Elba Honours for services to drama. In 2017, Elba won the male title for the "Rear of the Year" award in Britain. In September 2018, he was one of 50 people named for "making London awesome" and helping to shape London's cultural landscape who were featured in "Time Out" to mark the magazine's 50th anniversary. Idris Elba Idrissa Akuna Elba (; born 6 September 1972) is a British 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
Idris Elba is a DJ under the moniker DJ Big Driis (or Big Driis the Londoner) and a hip hop and soul musician. In 2016, he was named in the "Time" 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World. Idrissa Akuna Elba, an only child, was born on 6 September 1972 in Hackney, London. His father, Winston, was a Sierra Leonean who worked at Ford Dagenham, and his mother, Eve, is Ghanaian. Elba's parents were married in Sierra Leone and later moved to London. His paternal grandfather, Moses, was a sailor and a policeman. Elba was brought up in Hackney