Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

For the National:

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Coriolanus, The Effect (also The Shed, New York), Edward II, NT 50 Years on Stage, Antigone and Death and the King’s Horseman

In London’s West End: Tina – The Tina Turner Musical and Hamlet

Other theatre includes: The Low Road at the Royal Court; Feast, The Changeling, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and A Respectable Wedding at the Young Vic; Category B, Detaining Justice, Seize the Day, Fabulation, Walk Hard-Talk Loud, Gem of the Ocean and The Playboy of the West Indies at the Tricycle; 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover at the Bush; Love’s Labour’s Lost at Shakespeare’s Globe; and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Royal Exchange Manchester

The Split, The Veil, His Dark Materials, Ragdoll, Red Election, Motherland, Dark Heart, Class, The Last Panthers and Little Britain

Film

Three Bags Full, Wonka, The Gorge, Mary Poppins Returns, Ghost Stories, Paddington 2, Justice League, The Commuter, Doctor Strange and The Double

Radio

Judas, Moby Dick, Ob’owa, The Black Bono and Dr No

Audio

Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, The Great When, Mordew, Malarkoi and The Man with the Golden Gun

Awards

Tina – The Tina Turner Musical – Olivier Award Winner for Best Actor in a Musical

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Manchester Evening News Best Actor nomination

(Updated September 2024. Photo: Faye Thomas)