Name: Idris Elba
Course: Performing Arts
This star of “The Wire” studied acting here.
Idrissa Akuna “Idris” Elba is a British television, theatre, and film actor who has starred in both British and American productions.
Elba grew up in Canning Town, East London and attended Barking & Dagenham College. If you’re straining to make out the dedication Idris has written across his sleeve in the photo, let us help you out:
“This is a great place to learn. Love, Idris Elba”
One of his first acting roles was in the soap opera Family Affairs. He has worked in a variety of TV roles including Ultraviolet and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. He is also known for playing Russell “Stringer” Bell, the drug dealer who aspired to become a high-powered businessman, in The Wire.
Elba is also a DJ under the moniker DJ Big Driis / Big Driis the Londoner, and a hip-hop soul recording artist.
“Barking & Dagenham College was the first place I got to fall on my face as an actor and get back up to be supported by great people and a great College.”
Published Thursday 28 May 2011
