David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo is one of those actors who makes you feel like Hollywood somehow lucked into discovering him, even though he was already tearing up the London stage long before the cameras came calling. Born in Oxford to Nigerian parents and trained through sheer craft rather than pedigree, he brings a weight and precision to every role that most actors spend a lifetime chasing. His portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma was simply one of the great performances of the 2010s — emotionally devastating, historically grounded, and somehow both intimate and monumental at once. The fact that it didn't get an Oscar nomination is still a minor scandal in my book. An OBE on top of Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award recognition? The man is genuinely respected across two continents, and he's earned every bit of it.

This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.

Name (English)

David Oyelowo

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・オイェロウォ

Reading

でゔぃっど・おいぇろうぉ

Born

April 1, 1976 (age 50)

Origin

Oxford, United Kingdom

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / film producer / television actor / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

University

City and Islington College

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• Ian Charleson Awards

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/davidoyelowo/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Oyelowo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218800

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• film producer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.