Sope Dirisu

Sope Dirisu is a British actor. Born in Edgware in 1991, he joined the National Youth Theatre in 2006 and later auditioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stages program. His first stage part was Pericles in Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and he later trained in its REP company. His film debut came with Sand Castle, and he appeared in Criminal and The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016). His television work includes Undercover, Siblings, Humans, and the Black Mirror episode Nosedive. He plays Elliot Carter in the Sky Atlantic drama Gangs of London, a role he has held since 2020. For His House (2020), he was nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards, and his Coriolanus at the Royal Shakespeare Company earned an Ian Charleson Awards commendation in 2017. He later played Sean Donovan in Slow Horses and Wes in Black Rabbit, and he voices Sirius Black in the Harry Potter audiobooks.