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EXCLUSIVE: Damson Idris, star of FX’s critically acclaimed drama series Snowfall, has signed with CAA. Idris portrays Franklin Saint in Snowfall, the drama about the start of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, which is heading into its fourth season on FX. Idris can also be seen as the star of Adewale…

Nearly five episodes in to its third season, FX has ordered a fourth season of Snowfall, its acclaimed drama series about the start of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles. Created by John Singleton & Eric Amadio and Dave Andron, Snowfall Season 4 will premiere on FX in 2020. The renewal was announced Tuesday at…

Damson Idris, who currently headlines the FX drama series Snowfall, has been tapped to star alongside Anthony Mackie in the Netflix sci-fi action film, Outside The Wire. British actress Emily Beecham has also signed on for a supporting role. Directed by Mikael Håfström, the film is set in the future and follows a…

Morris Chestnut and Damson Idris, two actors representing either end of the too-brief career of late director John Singleton, presented a heartfelt BET Awards tribute last night to the man they called not only their director, but a sensei, a big brother, a mentor, friend and visionary. Watch the tribute…

EXCLUSIVE: Stars Wars actor John Boyega, Black Panther’s Letitia Wright and Snowfall lead Damson Idris are among patrons of newly opened LA drama school Identity School of Acting. The West Hollywood-located school, which opened this week, is the LA branch of the successful London institution of the same name, which…

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…

The summer forecast calls for Season 2 of Snowfall. FX has set 10 PM Thursday, July 19, for the return of its drama series that focuses on the 1980s crack outbreak, from creators John Singleton & Eric Amadio and Dave Andron. Watch a new promo above. The sophomore-season plot: Snowfall continues its story about the…

FX's Snowfall has been picked up for a second season. The show, which depicts the beginnings of the 1980s crack epidemic in Los Angeles, centers around Franklin (Damson Idris) and his friends as they search for ways to support their families and land on crack as a solution to their financial woes.  Season 1 spent some…

Kate Beckinsale, Damson Idris and Gugu Mbatha-Raw have been cast in Farming, the directorial debut from Nigerian-British writer-director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The project is an autobiographical story based on Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Annenberg award-winning screenplay, which was developed at the Sundance Film Institute…

EXCLUSIVE: Rising Brit thesp Damson Idris has joined the cast of indie drama Meagen Leavey opposite Kate Mara. Gabriela Cowperthwaite directs the biopic based on the true story of Megan Leavey, a young Marine who turned her life around by enlisting in the K9 unit. There, she was teamed with an aggressive combat dog…

EXCLUSIVE: British newcomer Damson Idris has been set to co-star in FX’s pilot Snowfall, co-written and to be directed by John Singleton. He joins Billy Magnussen in the cast of the drama about the beginnings of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Snowfall follows three characters on a violent…