Arnold Oceng

Arnold Oceng, a Ugandan-born British actor and singer, began performing as a child and played King Herod in a school production before making his screen debut in 1999 as Calvin Braithwaite in the BBC children's drama Grange Hill. He stayed with that popular series until 2004, then took supporting parts in television shows such as Casualty, The Bill and Sold. His first cinema role came in Adulthood (2008), followed by independent British films including 4.3.2.1. and My Brother the Devil (2012). In 2014 he appeared alongside Reese Witherspoon in The Good Lie, his first Hollywood role. He played Charles in A United Kingdom (2016), which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival, and appeared in the Danish biopic The Greatest Man. His performance in Brotherhood earned him the Best Supporting Actor prize at the National Film Awards UK, and he was nominated for Male Performance in Film at the 2017 Screen Nation Film and Television Awards.