Ken Nwosu

Ken Nwosu is a British actor.

Education Nwosu graduated from Drama Centre London in 2013.

Career Theatre His work in theatre include the roles of Oswald in a 2016 Ghosts, BJJ in An Octoroon in 2017 and Leo in White Noise in 2021. The newspaper i said that "Nwosu gives a committed and graceful account of Leo's ever more demented determination." Shakespeare plays include Othello, The Merchant of Venice and As You Like It.

Nwosu played the title role in Ola Ince's 2024 production of Othello, as DCI Othello. Another actor played Othello's subconscious self. The Standards reviewer said "Nwosu has a generic London accent, and the verse sounds all the fresher for his plain-spokenness: he is chilling in his later wrath, wrenching in his regret." The Telegraphs reviewer said "For all the nuance and humanity that Nwosu brings to Othello, this Moor feels reduced to a series of socially determined cause-and-effects." The Timess reviewer called Nwosu's Othello "a capable if uncharismatic Met policeman ("guvnor" to his colleagues) who tosses in references to New Scotland Yard and mysterious criminal cartels." Time Outs reviewer thought that "Nwosu's Othello has his moments but his abrupt descent into murderous rage doesn't convince, and his performance feels severely hampered by having another guy on stage acting out his inner feelings, as if he himself wasn't up to the challenge."

Film and television His film and TV roles include Paul Hastings in the comedy-drama Christopher Robin (2018), Max Sanford in the first season of Killing Eve (2018)

2020 and onward roles include Ristridian in The Letter for the King (2020) and Eddie in Hollington Drive (2021). He is part of the cast in the 2023 Arthurian TV-series The Winter King, where he plays Sagramor, and the 2024 six-part spy series Black Doves.

Video games He was one of the voice actors on the 2023 video game Baldur's Gate 3.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2018 Christopher Robin Paul Hastings2020 Cold Blow Lane Shelley The Witches Bellman 2022 Look the Other Way and Run Ben 2025 No Women No Children Kofi Post-production 2026 Greenland 2: Migration Obi

Television

Awards and recognition He was nominated for the 2015 Ian Charleson Award for the role of Silvius in As You Like It. For An Octoroon, he received the 2017 Offie for Best Male Performance for a Play, and performed the role the whole run.