
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Department: Acting
Biography
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is a British actor, playwright, director, singer, and broadcaster. He is best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1999 until 2004. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London.
Known For

Black Power Salute
2008

Escape From Kampala
1991

Fade to Black
2006

Birth of a Nation
1983

Pride
2004

Cutthroat Island
1995

Walter's War
2008

Gunslinger's Revenge
1998

Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent
2020

Swingin' the Dream
2021

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021

Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
2003

Casualty
1986

Casualty
1986

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996

Skins
2007

The Afternoon Play
2003

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1997