Daniel Kaluuya (born 8 May 1989) is an English actor and writer. He achieved international recognition for his performance in the 2017 horror film Get Out, which earned him significant critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including nominations for a BAFTA, Golden Globe, a SAG Award and a Critics' Choice Award in the best actor in a leading role category. That same year, he received a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Kaluuya began his career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He subsequently appeared in the first two seasons of the British television series Skins, which he also co-wrote. Playing the lead role in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London, Kaluuya won rave reviews for his performance and he won both the Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer. He gained further acclaim for his performance in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits", and played Tealeaf in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville, and Mac in the BBC Three horror drama The Fades. Kaluuya appeared as Agent Tucker in the 2011 film Johnny English Reborn, alongside Rowan Atkinson, and in 2013, he appeared in the film Kick-Ass 2. In 2015, he starred alongside Emily Blunt in the Denis Villeneuve film Sicario. In 2018, he will appear as W'Kabi in the Marvel Studios film Black Panther.