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Kwame Kwei-Armah
Actor, playwright, singer, and broadcaster (born )
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Born | Ian Roberts () 24 March (age57) Hillingdon, London, England |
Almamater | Barbara Speake Stage School |
Knownfor | Actor, playwright, singer, and broadcaster |
Children | 4 |
Kwame Kwei-ArmahOBE (born Ian Roberts; 24 March [1] in Hillingdon, London)[2] is a British actor, playwright, director and broadcaster.
In , Kwei-Armah became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London[a] when his award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre. He was the first black Briton to head a major British national theater, when he took the directorship of the Young Vic in [3] Kwei-Armah was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to drama.[4][5]
Brought up in Southall, West London, he ch