Meet John Boyega, Nigerian lead actor in Star Wars
0 By Our Reporter onHe may not be known back home in Nigeria but John Boyega is set to heat-up cinemas across the globe in the trailer of the forthcoming 2015 film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, in which he played the lead role.
Born March 17 1992, Boyega played Moses in his 2011 film debut, Attack The Block. Trained at the Identity Drama School in Hackney, in 2011, Boyega was cast in the boxing drama pilot, Da Brick, loosely based on Mike Tyson’s life.
So impressive has his career been that Boyega was chosen by Fionnuala Halligan of Screen International, as one of UK Stars of Tomorrow in 2011. In March 2012, Boyega was cast in the film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book Half of a Yellow Sun.
Meanwhile, the appearance of a black storm trooper in the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens caused quite a stir on social media recently due to the colour of his skin. The movie goes on general release on December 18, 2015.
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