Idris Elba's biography
Idris Elba is a star of The Wire, Luther series, Guy Ritchie's crime thriller RocknRolla, the Thor superhero films, Stephen King's The Dark Tower adaptation, and many other acclaimed projects.
Childhood and family
Idrissa (Idris) Akuna Elba was born in the autumn of 1972 in Hackney, London. His father Winston Elba worked at the Ford plant, while his mother Eve, who hailed from Ghana, was an office worker. The future actor's parents met and married in Winston's homeland of Sierra Leone. They later emigrated to the UK and settled in London.
From childhood, Elba's main passion was music. Working alongside his uncle, Idris wrote songs for wedding ceremonies. He became interested in music arrangement, later mastered the DJ console, and began performing at parties under the pseudonym Big Driis. At the age of 16 in 1987, the boy founded his own studio, which was engaged in organizing performances of young DJs.

In the late eighties, Idris won a government grant to study at the National Youth Music Theatre, where he began acting. At first, acting was just an elective for the talented young DJ, but over time his passion for performance grew stronger until it eventually took over.
Idris Elba's acting career
Idris Elba began his rise to fame in the early 90s. In 1995 he received a role in the first season of the Bramwell soap opera about doctors of the Victorian era. His character was the handsome thief Charlie Carter, who lost his wife in childbirth and was left holding his newborn daughter.
Over the next 7 years, Idris appeared in about 20 TV projects but shot to fame with The Wire detective drama series, which was released on HBO from 2002 to 2008. Elba brought to life the image of a smart and merciless drug dealer Stringer Bell.






In 2017, the long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Dark Tower hit theaters. Idris Elba played the central character Roland Deschain, known as The Gunslinger, who seeks to reach the Dark Tower to prevent humanity's destruction. His antagonist, an ageless sorcerer, was played by Matthew McConaughey.

Idris Elba's personal life
From 1997 to 2001, Idris Elba was married to actress Dormowa Sherman, who gave birth to their daughter Isan shortly after their breakup in 2002. Isan lives with her mother in Atlanta, though her father visits regularly.

Idris Elba Now
Among Idris's recent projects are two Marvel Studios films: Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War, which reunited fan-favorite franchise characters: Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Robert Downey Jr, Thor himself Chris Hemsworth, as well as Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson.