Actor

Kwame Kwei-Armah

March 24, 1967 · Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK

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.

Notable work

8.1
Skins (2007)
as Personal Trainer
5.8
Cutthroat Island (1995)
as Dawg's Pirate

Often works with

Ken Bones
2 titles together
Cutthroat Island, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Kemi-Bo Jacobs
2 titles together
Lewis, Swingin' the Dream
Jason Durr
2 titles together
Lewis, Casualty
Jim Broadbent
2 titles together
Pride, Birth of a Nation
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Chris Starkie
2 titles together
Walter's War, Walter's War

Full filmography · 19

Boner
Writer
Upcoming
The Collaboration
Director
Upcoming
Breaking
Writer
20226.5
Twelfth Night
Writer
2021
Swingin' the Dream
cast
2021
Walter's War
as Daniel Tull and Writer
2008
Fade to Black
as Joe Black
2006
Pride
as Lush (voice)
20046.1
Elmina’s Kitchen
Writer
2004
Gunslinger's Revenge
as Rastafarian
19984.5
Cutthroat Island
as Dawg's Pirate
19955.8
Escape From Kampala
as Joseph (as Ian Roberts)
1991