Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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1. 1967 age 0

   Born

2. 1994 age 27

   CreditDelta of Venus

3. 1995 age 28

   CreditAce Ventura: When Nature Calls

   CreditCongo

4. 1998 age 31

   CreditLegionnaire

5. 2001 age 34

   CreditThe Mummy Returns

6. 2002 age 35

   CreditThe Bourne Identity

7. 2004 age 37

   CreditUnstoppable

8. 2005 age 38

   CreditGet Rich or Die Tryin'

   CreditThe Mistress of Spices

9. 2009 age 42

   CreditG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

10. 2010 age 43

    CreditFaster

11. 2011 age 44

    CreditKiller Elite

    CreditThe Thing

12. 2012 age 45

    CreditBullet to the Head

13. 2013 age 46

    CreditThor: The Dark World

14. 2014 age 47

    CreditAnnie

    CreditPompeii

15. 2015 age 48

    CreditConcussion

    CreditTrumbo

16. 2016 age 49

    CreditSuicide Squad

17. 2022 age 55

    CreditMarlowe

18. 2024 age 57

    CreditThe Union

• WSWill Smith3 titles
• ASAlan Silvestri2 titles
• CEChristopher Eccleston2 titles
• HPHarold Perrineau2 titles
• MGMaggie Grace2 titles
• BDBill Duke2 titles
• LCL. Scott Caldwell2 titles
• EHErnie Hudson2 titles
• JSJ. K. Simmons2 titles
• FMFrank Marshall2 titles

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• It felt like a kidnap…and it rendered me mute for about nine months. I couldn't speak the language, and if I spoke English I was abused for it. It was quite a culture shock: brutal. I was so traumatised and afraid that I stopped speaking and my [birth] parents thought there was something wrong with me, thought I was possessed…

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I wanted to assimilate and go back to the abnormal normality I knew. I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was. As much as I wanted to deny it, it was plaguing me, and I was reminded by the images coming through the TV, people on the streets and in the end my family in the house.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My understanding is that it derived from an age-old habit: in Nigeria – and elsewhere in Africa – it was common for parents to send their children from the village to a town, to an extended family member or even a stranger, because it was thought that child would have more opportunities. The problems began with people like my parents because it was a foreign country. I think it was seen as a status thing – and there was an element of ‘white being seen as right’. Mostly they wanted us to get an education and learn to speak good English.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There was no way of getting love. If all you have experienced is humiliation and rejection, and your foster father forces you to fight back or get a beating from him, you look for any kind of lifeline. There were only two options: fight, or become a victim. I tried the victim option for a long time.

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