Kwaku Fortune

Kwaku Fortune is an Irish actor.

Early life and education Fortune is from Roundwood, County Wicklow. He is of Ghanaian descent on his mother's side. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Acting from The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin in 2017.

Career Fortune's early work includes roles in various short films and the main role of Tobi in 2011 RTÉ miniseries The Importance of Being Whatever. He then made his stage debut with Playboyz, a modern interpretation and version of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, which featured in the 2017 Dublin Theatre Festival.

In 2018 Fortune took part in On Raftery's Hill and a stage adaptation of the novel Asking for It by Louise O'Neill.

Fortune was on the Diversity on Screen panel at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival. He played the role of Julian in the Sophie Hyde directed 2019 film Animals. That same year, Fortune narrated the perspective of Leon in an audiobook of The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary alongside Carrie Hope Fletcher for Macmillan Audio. Theatre-wise, Fortune reprised his role in Asking for It as well as starring in Peat and They Float Up.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2017 Kissing Candice Finn 2019 Animals Julian A Girl from Mogadishu Receptionist 2022 Luck Gael (voice) 2024 Cult Killer Glenn TWIG Eddie

Television Year Title Role Notes 2011 The Importance of Being Whatever Tobi Main role 2020 Normal People Philip Recurring role 2021 Line of Duty DS Marks Episode #6.1 2021–2023 Hidden Assets Josh Ola Main role 2022 Redemption Michael Dunne Episode #1.5 2024 The Dry Dec 2 episodes

Stage Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

Audio Year Title Role Notes 2019 The Flatshare Leon Macmillan Audio