Babou Ceesay
Biography
Babou Ceesay is a British actor whose screen work spans film and television. Born in London and raised in West Africa, he trained at the Oxford School of Drama, and his early stage work included The Overwhelming and A Midsummer Night's Dream. His first major screen role came in the horror comedy Severance (2006), after which he appeared in films such as '71 (2014), the thriller Eye in the Sky (2015), the action comedy Free Fire (2017), The Best of Enemies (2019) and Killer Heat (2024). On television, he played John the Apostle in A.D. The Bible Continues, a lawyer in National Treasure, and Richard Taylor in Damilola, Our Loved Boy, a performance that earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. He later took major roles in Guerrilla, Dark Money, We Hunt Together and Wolfe, and leads the sci-fi drama Alien: Earth as the cyborg Kumi Morrow.
47years old
Turns 48 on January 1in 81 days
- Born London
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Baboucarr Alieu Ceesay
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 18 years2006 to 2024
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A change of course
Ceesay studied Microbiology at Imperial College London before drama school, and he also worked as an internal auditor at the accounting firm Deloitte. He trained on the One Year Course at the Oxford School of Drama.
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All films by Gavin Hood
Yann DemangeDirector, 1 film, 2014
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All films by Ben Wheatley
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