
Acting
Aug 22, 1977
Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Acting
Biography
Kobna Kuttah Holdbrook-Smith (born 23 August 1977) is a Ghanaian-English actor. He has played roles in films, including Father Richard Emery in Ghost Stories (2017), Oliver in The Commuter, Templeton Frye in Mary Poppins Returns and Doctor Wren in Gwen (2018). He has portrayed Crispus Allen in the superhero film Justice League (2017), part of the DC Extended Universe. For his performance in Tina in the West End, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (30)

Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.
Wonka

Riko and Kane have got it all: big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any worse? Yes! So, it’s time to man up and finally be taken serious as “Roadmen”. Once putting their heads together on various ways to make some money, they decide to rob a megastar in a nightclub toilet and hold up the local bank but things inevitably don’t go to plan!
Sumotherhood

A tired cab driver's spirit is tested early into his night shift when he picks up an unusual customer.
TAMING A SEAHORSE

Superworm is super-long and super-strong, and is always saving the day. But who can save him when he gets too full of himself and is captured by the evil Wizard Lizard?
Superworm

Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
Roadkill

A slave, a spy, a city under siege and a choice to be made that will change their world forever.
Rahab

The night before her son Dee Dee’s seventh birthday, an unexpected intruder crash-lands into Grace’s kitchen. As she discovers who the intruder, Grace must decide how to protect her son while navigating the complexities of Black parenthood in modern Britain.
Twice As Good

"Silent Drift" is a romantic thriller with cinematic elements of film noir set in the Caribbean. This extraordinary story depicts the complicated narratives of a young couple in love. Their survival and the dramatic life-or-death risks they take to be together. Silently drifting on a boat to an uncharted fate at nightfall between the dark blue Atlantic Ocean and the tropical Caribbean Sea, lives are jeopardized to achieve the American Dream. "Silent Drift" captures the intriguing microcosm of a laid-back community revealing the shocking truth of people who are living double lives. Lifestyles that are identified as immoral and torrid in some societies, encompassing dark family relationships between mother and daughter, husband and wife, and lovers.
Silent Drift

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
The Double

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Turks & Caicos

Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors.
National Theatre Live: The Effect

After recently moving to a seaside town, a single mother’s mental state derails as she becomes increasingly convinced that someone is trying to steal her baby.
Pretty Hands
Television & Series (19)

After England’s attempt at qualifying for the 2004 European Championships ends in disaster, Mike is offered the manager's job at the seemingly doomed Wirral County F.C.
Mike Bassett: Manager

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
Father Brown

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Midsomer Murders

The six-part series opens with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the dark heart of Europe where a shadowy alliance of gangsters and 'banksters' now rules. Naomi is the British loss adjustor charged with recovering the stolen diamonds whatever the cost. Also in pursuit is French-Algerian policeman Khalil.
The Last Panthers

Set on a single street in South London, Capital is a portrait of a road transformed by soaring property prices: what was once the home of modest lower-middle class families, Pepys Road has been continuously gentrified into a street of multimillion pound houses. On one day, the people of this South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.







