David Harewood Biography

Fast Facts

• Has ancestors who were slaves on a Caribbean sugar plantation
• Played goalkeeper on the soccer team that won the Under-16 All-England Championship in 1981
• Was the first black actor in the Royal National Theatre to portray Othello, in a 1997 production
• Donated bone marrow that saved a person's life in 2007
• Recorded his audition for the award-winning cable drama Homeland with a video camera in his bedroom
• Has portrayed Nelson Mandela in a TV movie and Martin Luther King Jr
• in a play
• Was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2012