Daniel Kaluuya

Daniel Kaluuya's biography

Daniel Kaluuya is 33 years old comedian born at London. He was born on Friday 24th of February 1989. According to year of birth 1989 he belongs to Millennials. Birthday on 24th of February means Daniel is Pisces. Pisces is a Watery Sign. They are very intuitive people. They are empathic, emotional and highly spiritual in nature.

He is native british english speaker. He is black british. He is citizen of United Kingdom. Daniel´s primary profession is to be comedian. You can know Daniel also as film actor, stage actor, television presenter. He is recently known as television actor. He received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Judas and the Black Messiah in 2021

Daniel Kaluuya's schools

We found 4 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: St Aloysius' College, Anna Scher Theatre, The Camden School for Girls, St Aloysius RC College.

Daniel Kaluuya's career

His main focus is to be comedian. He is famous thanks to Kenneth in Skins, Black Mirror, Get Out..

Awards and competitions

Daniel Kaluuya's Awards

• When he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), he became the first black British actor to win the Oscar (Los Angeles / 25 April 2021).
• First black Briton and second man of first generation African heritage (after Rami Malek) to win an Academy Award.

Daniel Kaluuya's Nominations

• At age 32, he's the youngest black actor to have received two Oscar nominations.

What Daniel Kaluuya has done for a first time

• When he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), he became the first black British actor to win the Oscar (Los Angeles / 25 April 2021).
• First black Briton and second man of first generation African heritage (after Rami Malek) to win an Academy Award.

Daniel Kaluuya's quotes

• When work ends, I'd rather just be seen as Daniel - normal.
• If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life.
• Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
• Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.
• I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'
• Racism kills people. It kills people!
• I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.
• In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.
• Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When it's from a black perspective, I don't have to - they get it.
• People are decisions and actions.
• What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.
• Loads of stuff that I've done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called 'Psychoville' that's a horror-comedy. Because I just think that's what life's like.
• I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with people going, 'You're too black.' Then I come to America, and they say, 'You're not black enough.'
• Usually I do a job, and, like, two weeks later, it disappears and is replaced with something else, but 'Get Out' kept growing and growing and growing, and it keeps taking me to rooms I could never get in before.
• I feel very appreciative of my mum, my girl, my family, my friends.
• I learned so much on 'Sicario' and working with that group of actors, where there was the audacity, the confidence, to do nothing.
• Everything men do is for women.
• I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.
• I did a play, back in the day, called 'Sucker Punch,' and it meant so much for me. I was 21. And I went, 'I just want to do work like that.' Stuff I believe in. And when I have compromised, I've never really felt good about it.
• Having something that makes money changes everything. I'm from England, and it's very much about credibility there. And yeah, it is about that. But the money can change things. And so you understand it's a business.
• 'Sicario' was a lot of improvisation.
• I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it around me. Not because they're around me; they're saying it because it articulated a state of mind. Lil Wayne's rapped about it.
• A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.
• Donae'o is too cold; he's been dropping bangers since 2000.
• Giggs is the realest.
• Nas is such a touchstone in my world.
• The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?
• All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.
• I love being black.
• What I find really exciting is stories from a different viewpoint.
• I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.
• Big up Samuel L. Jackson, because here's a guy who has broken down doors.
• I think diverse stories are just stories. I don't think 'diverse' is an add-on package. Things that are not diverse are weird because that's not accurate.
• I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.
• What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.
• Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.
• Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.
• I hope people listen to black people more. You'd be surprised how little people listen to black people when it comes to racial issues. It's weird.
• I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.
• 'Sucker Punch' was so demanding, it scared me a bit.
• I love comedy. I don't think there's enough comedy on stage.
• I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.
• 'The Fades' is its own world. If you try and link it to some religion, you have people going, 'Oh, that's not right,' with their Bible open. Let's just chuck some imagination at it.
• Being young, working class, and black, everything you do is policed. If someone hits you and you hit back, you are aggressive. If you cry, you are weak. You are kind of always pretending to be something.
• I don't think you become a name with just one job.
• I just want to tell black stories.
• Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.
• I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.
• This industry's hard. The world is hard. Being young and black is tough.
• I think that's all you do as an actor. You give ingredients for the edit, and the edit's the stew, and they try to make a meal out of it. That's all you are. You just throw things in. This is an idea, this is an idea.
• When I need a reality check, I call my mum.
• I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.
• I have to own the fact that I'm a black man - that's why I did 'Black Panther' and 'Widows' because if I play the industry game, I lose.
• 'Diverse' shouldn't be an actionable thing - it should just be.
• I think the word 'diverse' is a cancerous word because it's life. It's a PC way of saying 'non-white,' and it ultimately suggests that white is the standard.
• A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.
• I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I'm black. No matter that every single room I go to, I'm usually the darkest person there... I kind of resent that mentality. I'm just an individual.
• I am definitely not a household face, and I don't expect to be one.
• I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.
• I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.
• 'Skins' was like our uni. I'm tight with everyone from 'Skins' because we had that special experience together.
• 'A Prophet' is one of my favorite films of all time.
• When you're a young black man, you're not allowed to be emotional. One of the reasons I act is people pay me to be emotional.
• I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.
• 'Get Out' was born out of the genius mind of Jordan Peele, to whom I will be forever grateful for believing in me and allowing me to help him tell a story so dear to him.

Daniel Kaluuya's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Daniel Kaluuya looks. We will focus on Daniel´s height, body shape, eye color and hair color. Daniel is tall as 5' 8½" (174 cm). Body build is average. His eyes are tinted black. His hair is shade of black.