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David Oyelowo

David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo OBE is a British-American actor and producer. His highest-profile role to date was as Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 biographical drama film Selma.

English

Interstellar

2014
as School Principal

Star Wars Rebels

2014
as Agent Kallus

Chaos Walking

2021
as Aaron

The Midnight Sky

2020
as Adewole

Jack Reacher

2012
as Emerson

The Help

2011
as Preacher Green

Role Play

2024
as Dave

Silo

2023
as Holston

See How They Run

2022
as Mervyn Cocker-Norris

Spooks

2002
as Danny Hunter

The Girl Before

2021
as Edward

Selma

2015
as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Last King of Scotland

2006
as Dr. Thomas Junju

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

2021
as Percy McGregor

A Wrinkle in Time

2018
as The It (voice)

The Butler

2013
as Louis Gaines

Lincoln

2012
as Corporal Ira Clark

The Lion Guard

2016
as Scar (voice)

Lawmen: Bass Reeves

2023
as Bass Reeves

Five Days

2007
as Matt Wellings

The Rocketeers

as The Rocketeer

Small Island

2009
as Gilbert Joseph

Government Cheese

2025
as Hampton Chambers

9 Kisses

2014
as Arm Wrestling Man #1

Gringo

2018
as Harold Soyinka

The Prophecy

2022
as Daniel Evans

Queen of Katwe

2016
as Robert Katende

96 Minutes

2011
as Duane

As You Like It

2006
as Orlando De Boys

Captive

2015
as Brian Nichols

Nightingale

2015
as Peter Snowden

The Best Man

2005
as Graham

Nina

2016
as Clifton Henderson

Derailed

2005
as Patrol Officer

Rahab

2012
as Cen

A Most Violent Year

2014
as D.A. Lawrence

Red Tails

2012
as Joe 'Lightning' Little

Come Away

2020
as Jack

The Book of Clarence

2024
as John the Baptist

Blood and Oil

2010
as Keme Tobodo

A United Kingdom

2016
as Seretse Khama

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

2020
as Prince Humperdinck

The Paperboy

2012
as Yardley Acheman

A Raisin in the Sun

2008
as Joseph Asagai

Sweet Thunder

as Sugar Ray Robinson

The After

2023
as Dayo

Don’t Let Go

2019
as Jack Radcliff

Complicit

2013
as Edward Ekubo

The Passion

2008
as Joseph of Arimathea

Born Equal

2006
as Yemi

Rage

2009
as Homer

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

2019
as Tiger (voice)

Director

Movie The Water Man 2020
Movie Big Guy 2009

Writer

Movie Sweet Thunder

Producer

Movie The Rocketeers
Movie Nightingale 2015
Movie Captive 2015
Movie A United Kingdom 2016
Movie Sweet Thunder
Movie Five Nights in Maine 2016

Guest Star

Episode The Earthshot Prize
Prize Ceremony
2021
Episode Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Drama Actors
2015
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
RuPaul Charles, David Oyelowo, Alfie Allen
2019
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Chris Pine, David Oyelowo, Bobby Flay
2014
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton
2018
Episode The Lion Guard
Battle for the Pride Lands
2019
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Bob Odenkirk, David Oyelowo, Bebe Rexha
2017
Episode Robot Chicken
Walking Dead Lobster
2014
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Heidi Klum, David Oyelowo, Carly Rae Jepsen, Bernard Fowler
2015
Episode Conan (2010)
David Oyelowo, Asa Butterfield, JR JR
2015
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Elizabeth Hurley & David Oyelowo
2018
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
David Oyelowo, Sam Smith
2020
Episode Conan (2010)
David Oyelowo, Louie Anderson, Angel Olsen
2017
Episode Today
December 11, 2014
2014
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Kate Hudson, David Oyelowo, De La Soul ft. Estelle
2016
Episode The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Episode 5
2019
Episode The Good Wife
Two Courts
2011
Episode The Talk
David Oyelowo
2017
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Kathy Griffin, David Oyelowo, Lera Lynn
2015
Episode MTV After Hours
Jessica Chastain & Oscar Isaac at The Red Carpet Awards
2015
Episode Off Camera with Sam Jones
David Oyelowo
2017
Episode Ten Percent
Episode 6
2022