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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Oz) and Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) are set as leads opposite Charles Babalola in Showtime's King Shaka drama series. Additionally, Terry Pheto (Tsotsi) and Lerato Mvelase (Justice Served) will recur in the series executive produced by Antoine Fuqua. Rooted in actual events, King Shaka tells…

EXCLUSIVE: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, known for his roles in Suicide Squad, The Bourne Identity and The Mummy Returns, among others, has signed with Industry Entertainment for management. Akinnuoye-Agbaje recently portrayed the iconic Killer Croc in the Warner Bros/DC Comics feature Suicide Squad. He’ll next be seen in…

EXCLUSIVE: J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos), Jackie Earle Haley (The First Lady), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Suicide Squad), Jessica De Gouw (The Secrets She Keeps) and Alice Lee (Brittany Runs a Marathon) have signed on to star alongside Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry in the Netflix thriller Our Man from Jersey, from…

At the beginning of The Fix panel at TCA, a sizzle reel of the law drama was shown and it ended with co-creator/executive producer Marcia Clark asking: “Is it a revenge fantasy?” and after a beat, she says with a small smirk, “Maybe.” Clark was joined on the panel by fellow co-creators and executive producers Sarah Fai…

While there are many reasons for an artist to strike out with their feature directorial debut, Farming’s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje had one that was extremely personal and expressly his own. “The genesis was literally trying to sleep at night,” the actor-turned-director told Deadline in Toronto, where his film…

Becoming a series-regular on a show as storied as Lost is a lofty achievement for any actor. But for Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the path that brought him there—and to films like Suicide Squad and Thor: The Dark World—could not have been rockier or more challenging. It's a journey Akinnuoye-Agbaje relates in his…

EXCLUSIVE: Lost alum Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is getting personal in his directorial debut feature, Farming, which he also wrote. Premiering September 8 at the Toronto Film Festival, the film is inspired Akinnuoye-Agbaje real-life experience with the practice of farming, a term used in the 60s in reference to Nigerian…

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Ten Days in the Valley) is set for a lead role opposite Robin Tunney and Adam Rayner in ABC drama pilot The Fix. Described as part legal thriller, part confessional and part revenge fantasy, The Fix is written by Marcia Clark, Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain and directed by Larysa Kondracki…

EXCLUSIVE: David Oyelowo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nonso Anozie, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. These are but a few of the actors of Nigerian descent whao are working steadily in Hollywood — actors who have, for the most part, not changed their names for more easily pronounced stage names. Each has a unique…

EXCLUSIVE: Lost star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is tackling another role in a Sony film, this time joining Will Smith in the studio’s untitled NFL concussion drama directed by Parkland‘s Peter Landesman. Akinnuoye-Agbaje starred recently in disaster period pic Pompeii and the upcoming Annie remake for Sony. He’ll play…