Kwame Kwei-Armah
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Kwame Kwei-Armah (born 1967) is a black British Actor, playwright, sometime Singer and Broadcaster.
Born Ian Roberts in Hillingdon, London, he changed his name after tracing his family history, through the slave trade back to his African roots. His parents were born in Grenada.
He first achieved fame playing the paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC drama series Casualty from 1999 to 2004. His other television credits include appearances in episodes of the Casualty sister series Holby City, the BBC's Afternoon Play, Between The Lines and The Bill.
For a number of years Kwei-Armah has been seen as a panellist on the arts discussion show Newsnight Review, he has also appeared on Question Time on two occasions and reported for The Culture Show.
His fifth play, Elmina's Kitchen premiered in May 2003 at the National Theatre, and was shortlisted in the "best new play" category at the 2004 Laurence Olivier Award's. In the same year Kwei-Armah received The Evening Standard Award for the Most Promising New Playwright of 2003.
In 2003 he appeared as a contestant on the Reality TV programme Comic Relief does Fame Academy and subsequently released an album, Kwame.
In 2005, Kwei-Armah was nominated for a BAFTA award for the television version of his play Elmina's Kitchen.
Kwei-Armah has recently been seen in an episode of the new BBC1 revival of Robin Hood and in the feature film Fade to Black opposite Danny Huston, Christopher Walken and Diego Luna.
