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David Harewood

Highest Rated: 100% A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014)

Lowest Rated: 10% Tulip Fever (2017)

Birthday: Dec 8, 1965

Birthplace: Birmingham, England, UK

A gifted theatrical and screen actor, David Harewood graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and became a West End sensation for his controversial turn in the play "Entertaining Mr. Sloane." Simultaneously praised and pilloried as a rising black English actor, Harewood overcame considerable personal demons to build an impressive career, notching roles on such TV projects as "Always and Everyone" (ITV, 1999-2002), "The Vice" (ITV, 1999-2003), "Fat Friends" (ITV, 2000-05) and "The Palace" (ITV, 2008). Scoring stage triumphs as Shakespeare's "Othello" and Martin Luther King, Jr. in "The Mountaintop," he was equally impressive in "The Merchant of Venice" (2004), "Blood Diamond" (2006) and "Mrs Mandela" (BBC, 2010). Chafing at the lack of substantial roles for non-Caucasian actors in the U.K., Harewood achieved even greater notice when he landed the juicy supporting part of David Estes, the hard-edged director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center whose allegiance to unpredictable agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) constantly shifted on the international smash "Homeland" (Showtime, 2011- ). Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his services to drama and reminding many of Hollywood's Golden Age-era leading men, David Harewood was recognized as one of the most versatile actors working on either side of the pond.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 67% A Midsummer Night's Dream
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100% 75% Free in Deed Watchlist 80% 64% Wendell & Wild Watchlist 80% 21% Arthur's Whisky Watchlist
80% 83% Strings
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72% 47% Separate Lies
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72% 72% The Merchant of Venice
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66% 53% MI-5
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64% 90% Blood Diamond
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57% 48% The Canterville Ghost Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Arthur's Whisky 80% 21% 2024 Hal Actor The Canterville Ghost 57% 48% 2023 Hiram Otis Voice National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies 50% 2023 William F. Buckley Jr. Actor Wendell & Wild 80% 64% 2022 Voice Tulip Fever 10% 42% 2017 Mr. Prater Actor The Brothers Grimsby 37% 41% 2016 Black Gareth Actor The Brothers Grimsby With Hilarious Outtakes 2016 Actor Free in Deed 100% 75% 2015 Abe Wilkins Actor MI-5 66% 53% 2015 Warrender Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream 100% 67% 2014 Oberon Actor Third Person 25% 34% 2013 Jake Long Actor 9.79 2012 Narrator The Man Inside 27% 12% 2012 Eugene Murdoch Actor The Hot Potato 27% 2011 Harrison Actor Victim 33% 27% 2011 Mr. Ansah Actor Mrs. Mandela 2010 Theunis Swanepoel Actor The Shadow in the North 56% 2007 Nicholas Bedwell Actor Blood Diamond 64% 90% 2006 Capt. Poison Actor Separate Lies 72% 47% 2005 Inspector Marshall Actor Strings 80% 83% 2004 Erito Voice The Merchant of Venice 72% 72% 2004 Prince of Morocco Actor I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now 1998 Moses Actor Bermuda Grace 1994 Trevor Watkins Actor The Hawk 25% 1993 Sergeant Streete Actor Pirate Prince 1991 Jean-Baptiste Actor
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