Draft:Elliot Edusah

Elliot Edusah is a British actor. He is best known for starring as Cappo in Pirates (2021) British comedy film written and directed by Reggie Yates. He also starred in Small Axe (2020) historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and co-written by McQueen and Alastair Siddons. Edusah played Valentine Golding (Valin) writer Alex Wheatle childhood best friend a Black British novelist who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment after the 1981 Brixton uprising. He is also known for his roles in the 1917 (2019), Sitting in Limbo (2020) , Outside The Wire (2021) Django (2023).

Early life and education
Elliot Edusah was born in Newham, East London, England, UK. He attended St Bonaventures Secondary School in Forest Gate. Elliot then went on to attend The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology for two years at college level studying Theatre and Media and graduated in 2015. Also he graduated in the class of 2018 at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) with a first class BA (Hons) in Professional Acting course (2015-2018)

Career
Elliot recently finished filming SKY’s Django, a reimagining of Sergio Corbucci’s classic 1966 Western of the same name. Set in the Wild West of the 1860s and ’70s, the series follows Django, a gunslinger who is searching for his daughter who he believes escaped the murder of his family eight years ago. Elliot takes on the role of ‘Andrew Ellis’, the son of Nicholas Pinnock’s character ‘John’. The series also stars Noomi Rapace and Matthias Schoenaerts and premiered in 2023 on Canal+ and SKY.

Reggie Yates’ directorial debut, Pirates, produced by BBC Film, The British Film Institute and Hillbilly Films which follows three eighteen-year-old friends on their journey from north to south London on New Year's Eve on the cusp of the millennium. Elliot took on the role of ‘Cappo’, a young man at a crossroads as he chooses a path different from his friends. The light-hearted comedy poignantly depicts the three main characters’ journeys into adulthood and also stars Jordan Peters and Reda Elazouar. The feature was released by Picturehouse on 24th November 2021.

Earlier that year, Elliot starred in science fiction action film Outside The Wire as ‘Adams’. Directed by Mikael Håfström, the film follows an android officer who works with a drone pilot to stop a global catastrophe. Also starring Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris, the film was released on Netflix in January 2021.

Steve McQueen’s five-part anthology film series Small Axe launched on the BBC and Amazon in 2020, with Elliot portraying Valentine Golding ‘Valin’ in the fourth instalment; Alex Wheatle. The series explores five stories from within London’s West Indian community between the 1960s and 1980s, and centres on the true story of ‘Wheatle’, an award-winning and inspiring writer at the time, and his own journey through the care system, and in prison following the 1981 Brixton Uprising.

In 2020, Elliot played ‘David’ in drama Sitting in Limbo. The film tells the story of Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal and was written by Bryan's half-brother, novelist Stephen S. Thompson. Also starring Patrick Robinson, Nadine Marshall and Pippa Bennett-Warner, the feature was broadcast in June 2020 on BBC One.

The year before, Elliot played the part of “Private Grey” in the 2019 British war film 1917.

As soon as he left drama school (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts), in 2018, He was cast as the lead Samuel in the National Theatre stage production, Barber Shop Chronicles directed by in Bijan Sheibani’s and written by Inua Ellams that toured America and Canada visiting various theatres including The Kennedy Centre, Grand Theatre London Ontario, The American Repertory Theatre, Moore Theatre. The critics raved about the show, with The London Free Press noting that Elliot deserved a “special mention” for his strong performance.