Damson Idris Damson Idris Damson Idris (born 2 September 1991) is an English television, movie and stage actor. He currently stars on John Singleton's crime drama "Snowfall", which debuted 5 July 2017 on FX. Idris was born in Peckham, south-east London, and is of Nigerian descent. He is the youngest of six children raised by a single mother. He played football and dreamed of being the next Cristiano Ronaldo. He also played rugby, and in 2002 he shook the hand of Queen Elizabeth II when his team took part in her Golden Jubilee. Idris's elder siblings—three brothers and two sisters—have all gone
Idris Elba £1,500 Prince's Trust grant. His first acting role was in "Crimewatch" murder reconstructions and in 1994 appeared in a BBC children's drama called "The Boot Street Band". To support himself between roles in "Crimewatch" reconstructions, he worked in jobs such as tyre-fitting, cold call advertising sales, and working night shifts at Ford Dagenham. He was working in nightclubs, under the DJ nickname "Big Driis", aged nineteen, but began auditioning for television roles in his early twenties. In 1995, Elba landed his first significant role on a series called "Bramwell", a medical drama set in 1890s England. He played a central