Kwame Kwei-Armah

Born: 1967-03-24, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK

Biography

Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is a British actor, playwright, director, singer, and broadcaster. He is best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1999 until 2004. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London.

Filmography

• Casualty (1986)
• Skins (2007)
• Lewis (2007)
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997)
• Comic Relief Does Fame Academy (2003)
• The Afternoon Play (2003)
• Cutthroat Island (1995)
• Il mio West (1998)
• Walter's War (2008)
• The Collaboration
• Escape From Kampala (1991)
• Swingin' the Dream (2021)
• Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent (2020)