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Nonso Anozie (/ˈnɒnsoʊ əˈnoʊzieɪ/ (listen);[3][4] born 17 November 1978[1][2]) is a British-Nigerian actor. He is best known for his roles as Tank in RocknRolla, Sergeant Dap in Ender's Game, Abraham Kenyatta in Zoo, Captain of the Guards in Cinderella, Xaro Xhoan Daxos in the HBO television series Game of Thrones and Tommy Jepperd in the television series Sweet Tooth, for which he was nominated for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance.

Nonso Anozie
Anozie at the premiere of Pan in 2015
Born	(1978-11-17) 17 November 1978 (age 43)[1][2] London, England
Alma mater	Central School of Speech and Drama (2002)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002–present

Early life

Anozie was born on 17 November 1978 in London, England, of Nigerian Igbo descent.[5][6][7]^{[non-primary source needed]}[8] Anozie attended St Aloysius College, Highgate in Highgate, London. He graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2002,[9] and in the summer of the same year he played the title role in William Shakespeare's King Lear, and won the Ian Charleson Award in 2004 for his performance in Othello.[10]

Career

Anozie was hired in 2006 to provide the voice for the armoured bear Iorek Byrnison in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights.[11] Anozie was replaced by Ian McKellen two months before the film was set to be released.[12] The film's director, Chris Weitz, told Empire: "It was a studio decision ... You can understand why you would cast Ian McKellen for anything. But letting go of Nonso was one of the most painful experiences on this movie for me. I need to say about Nonso that he is one of the most promising and soulful young actors I have encountered in England and I've worked here for quite a bit now and he's actually in the next Mike Leigh [film] ... But it was, uh, that was kind of a dark day for me. I kinda wanna go out of my way to point out how much I love Nonso's work. And that's that."[13]

Anozie played small roles as Think Tank in Guy Ritchie's film RocknRolla and Frank Mace in Joe Wright's Atonement. He played the lead in Cass, a 2008 British crime drama film recreating the life of Cass Pennant. In 2009, he appeared in the supporting cast of the BBC TV three-part 2003 Iraq War drama, Occupation, where he played a US Marine turned private military contractor. In 2011, he played Artus, a Zamoran pirate and close friend of Conan, in Conan the Barbarian. That year, he was also cast to play the role of Xaro Xhoan Daxos in the HBO series Game of Thrones and was cast as Jackson Burke in The Grey.[14] He also plays the role of Samson in the History Channel's television miniseries The Bible. In 2013, Anozie appeared in the film Ender's Game as Sergeant Dap,[15] and from 2013 to 2014 he played the role of Renfield on the NBC series Dracula.[16]

In November 2014, Anozie was cast in the CBS summer drama Zoo, based on the novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge.[17] Zoo premiered on 30 June 2015.

Anozie's radio work includes the role of Joe in the 2011 BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial production of Edna Ferber's Show Boat.[18]

In 2019, Anozie portrayed the antagonist, Cargo, in the Amazon Prime Video film Guava Island, starring Donald Glover and Rihanna.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Last Legion	Batiatus
	Atonement	Frank Mace
2008	Happy-Go-Lucky	Ezra
	Cass	Cass Pennant
	RocknRolla	Tank
2010	Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang	Sergeant Jeffreys
	Brighton Rock	Dallow
	I Am Slave
2011	Conan the Barbarian	Artus
	The Grey	Jackson Burke
2013	Ender's Game	Sergeant Dap
2014	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	Embee Deng
	Get Santa	Knuckles
2015	Cinderella	Captain of the Guards
	Pan	Bishop
2018	7 Days in Entebbe	Idi Amin
	All Is True	Actor Playing Aaron
2019	Guava Island	Red Cargo
	The Laundromat	Charles
2020	Artemis Fowl	Domovoi Butler
	Dragon Rider	Mighty Djinn (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act	Robert	Episode: Part 1
2009	Occupation	Erik Lester	3 episodes
2011	Outcasts	Elijah	1 episode
	Stolen	Thomas Ekoku	TV Movie
2012	Game of Thrones	Xaro Xhoan Daxos	5 episodes
2013	The Bible	Samson	Episode: Homeland
	Playhouse Presents	Chris	Episode: The Pavement Psychologist
2013–2014	Dracula	R.M. Renfield	Main cast; 10 episodes
2015–2017	Zoo	Abraham Kenyatta	Main cast
2015	Tut	General Horemheb	Miniseries; 3 episodes
	Doctor Who	Hydroflax (voice only)	Episode: The Husbands of River Song
2016	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Oberon	TV film
2021-present	Sweet Tooth	Tommy Jepperd	Main role
2021	Ted Lasso	Ola Obisanya (voice only)	2 episodes
2022	The Sandman	Wyvern (voice)	Episode: "Dream of a Thousand Cats"
	Hey Duggee	Animal Narrator (voice)	Episode: "The Mountain Badge"

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2007	The Golden Compass	Iorek
2011	Brink	Captain Clinton Mokoena
2013	Remember Me
2015	Dirty Bomb	Rhino, Sawbonez

Accolades

Award	Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Children's and Family Emmy Awards	2022	Outstanding Supporting Performance	Sweet Tooth	Pending	[19]

References

External links

• Nonso Anozie at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Nonso Anozie

Nonso Anozie (* 28. Mai 1979 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire) ist ein britischer Schauspieler nigerianischer Herkunft.

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- [en] Nonso Anozie

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[es] Nonso Anozie

Nonso Anozie (28 de mayo de 1979 en Londres, Inglaterra) es un actor inglés de origen nigeriano conocido por su papel de Sansón en la miniserie de 2013: La Biblia.

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[ru] Анози, Нонсо

Но́нсо Ано́зи (англ. Nonso Anozie, род. 28 мая 1979, Камден, Лондон) — английский актёр.

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