Faces and voices don’t come more famous than 49-year-old Idris Elba. Whether you’re watching reruns of Luther or The Wire, or you are at the pictures to see The Suicide Squad or Avengers: Infinity War, playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, grooving to music videos by Mumford & Sons or Stormzy, listening to the Idris and Sabrina Elba podcast, Coupledom, or simply wishing you could look as fetching in a pink jumper as he does on those Sky TV ads.
Elba’s latest film, Beast, is billed as a pulse-pounding thriller about a father and his two teenage daughters who find themselves on the wrong side of a massive rogue lion. Even a massive rogue lion would find it hard to upstage Elba. All his acting roles are just the tip of the, erm, Elba-berg. In 2016, Elba trained, competed and won as a professional kickboxing and mixed martial arts fighter. As a DJ/musician, he’s released six albums and EPs. He was voted People magazine’s sexiest man alive in 2018. And he’s currently 10/1 at the bookies to be cast as the next Bond.
