John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega (born 17 March 1992), known professionally as John Boyega, is a British actor and producer. He first rose to prominence in Britain for his role as a teenage gang leader in the comedy horror film Attack the Block (2011), and had his international breakthrough playing Finn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He received the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2016, and the Trophée Chopard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Boyega portrayed Leroy Logan in Red, White and Blue, as part of Steve McQueen's anthology series Small Axe (2020), for which he won a Golden Globe Award.[1] He has since starred in the historical action film The Woman King (2022) and the mystery film They Cloned Tyrone (2023).
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John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega (born 17 March 1992), known professionally as JohnBoyega, is a British actor and producer. He first rose to prominence...
directorial debut, from a screenplay he wrote with Tony Rettenmaier. It stars JohnBoyega, Teyonah Parris, and Jamie Foxx (who also serves as a producer) as an...
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November 2018, it was announced that Wright would be starring alongside JohnBoyega in a novel adaptation of Hold Back The Stars. Wright appeared in 2022's...
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of Oba Ade in the 2022 movie The Woman King alongside Viola Davis and JohnBoyega. Odukoya is the first son and second child of late pastors Bimbo Odukoya...
interested in rehabilitation from surviving when placed back in society. JohnBoyega as Bambi Rotimi Akinosho as Wayne Keke Palmer as Samaara Glenn Plummer...
stars Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and JohnBoyega. Bello conceived the idea for The Woman King in 2015 after visiting Benin...
Fair when she appeared on the cover of the summer 2017 issue with actor JohnBoyega (who played Finn) and Oscar Isaac (who played X-wing fighter pilot Poe...
Nigeria in 2005. On arrival in London, he shared a room with his cousin JohnBoyega, whilst once working as a kitchen porter. They are both Yoruba by tribe...
with alumni JohnBoyega, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Damson Idris, and Melanie Liburd as patrons of the new faculty. Oguns and Boyega launched a production...
Ford has a terrific father figure chemistry [shared] with Ridley and [John] Boyega". Ridley became the executive producer of the documentary The Eagle Huntress...
DeKnight's science fiction monster adventure Pacific Rim Uprising, alongside JohnBoyega and Scott Eastwood; Drew Goddard's thriller Bad Times at the El Royale;...
Actor JohnBoyega, then 8 years old, and his older sister Grace were among the last people to see Taylor alive. They were friends and the Boyegas helped...