Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Also Known As: Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Adewalé, Αντεουάλε Ακινουόγιε-Αγκμπάζε, 아데발레 아킨누오예 아그바제, آدواله آکین اویهآگباجه, آدواله آکینوی آگباجه
Biography: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ( born 22 August 1967) is a Nigerian–English actor, and former fashion model best known for his roles as Mr. Eko on Lost, Simon Adebisi on Oz and Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Islington, London, England, UK
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Birthday: August 22, 1967
Age: 57 years old
Gender: Male
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The Mummy Returns
Overview: Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Overview: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-09
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Legionnaire
Overview: Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
Genres: Action War Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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The Bourne Identity
Overview: Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-14
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Unstoppable
Overview: The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan. He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-20
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The Mistress of Spices
Overview: Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-11
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Overview: Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Genres: Crime Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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Marlowe
Overview: Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-15
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Faster
Overview: After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-23
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Overview: From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-03
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The Thing
Overview: When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-12
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Starwater
Overview: Made by Scott William Winters, Starwater is a star-studded experimental film shot while doing the HBO series ‘Oz’.
Genres: War Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Killer Elite
Overview: Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-22
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Bullet to the Head
Overview: After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-14
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Best Laid Plans
Overview: David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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Pompeii
Overview: In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
Genres: Action Adventure History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-18
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Thor: The Dark World
Overview: Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Overview: Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Overview: Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-23
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Deadly Voyage
Overview: When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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The Union
Overview: A New Jersey construction worker goes from regular guy to aspiring spy when his long-lost high school sweetheart recruits him for an espionage mission.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-15
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Concussion
Overview: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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Congo
Overview: Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Annie
Overview: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
Overview: A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-08
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Suicide Squad
Overview: From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-03
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Trumbo
Overview: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-27
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Preaching to the Choir
Overview: Estranged since the death of their parents years ago, twin brothers Teshawn and Wesley Tucker have taken radically different paths in life. Wes has become a minister in a Harlem gospel church while Te perpetrates the gangster lifestyle as hip-hop star Zulu. They are forced into reconciliation when Te flees from LA to his childhood home in Harlem to hide from his enraged record producer, Bull Sharky. As Bull Sharky and his posse move east tracking Te down, Te and Wes must confront their own demons and attempt to work out their differences.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Tour de Pharmacy
Overview: A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-08
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Delta of Venus
Overview: A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Lip Service
Overview: Two very different former college roommates reunite under strange circumstances.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-24
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Elizabeth Blue
Overview: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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Wetlands
Overview: A man attempts to make a new start in Atlantic City with the help of his daughter and a new business partner.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Farming
Overview: Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-08
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Late in Summer
Overview: Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between a lonely farmer’s wife and a Black American GI that leads to first love in middle life and an impossible choice.
Genres: Romance War
Original Language: en
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Overview: After a brutal mugging leaves him with double vision, a fashion photographer turns to a grieving woman for inspiration—until obsession warps reality, pushing him toward passion, madness, and danger.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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