50-Yr-Old Idris Elba Says He’s Stopped Describing Himself As A “Black Actor”…He Is No Longer Interested In Being Identified By the Color of His Skin [VIDEO]

By Patty McMurray

 

50-year-old Hollywood actor Idris Elba doesn’t want to be described as a “black actor.” Unlike Rep. Ilhan Omar, who uses her skin color and status as an immigrant to claim victim status, Elba, the only child of immigrants to the UK from Sierra Leone, told Esquire magazine that he doesn’t want to self-segregate himself or be placed in a special category because of the color of his skin.

From Esquire magazine: His father was 33 when he arrived from his native Sierra Leone; his mother, born in Ghana, was 26 — Idris Elba is one of a handful of British actors who can justly claim to be Hollywood leading men. His story is well known: the boy from the east-London council estate who, in the 1990s, followed his dream of being an actor to New York made his name with that extraordinarily controlled and seductive performance in what remains one of the finest TV dramas ever made, and went on to big-screen success and cultural ubiquity — as an actor, director, producer, DJ, musician, rapper, entrepreneur, fashion designer, philanthropist, dare-devil, podcaster, heart-throb, and I’m sure I’ve missed a few. A father of three, he has been married since 2019 to Sabrina, a Canadian model and actor of Somali descent. They live in west London. said that he’s no longer interested in being defined by the color of his skin during an interview published Wednesday.

“I didn’t become an actor because I didn’t see Black people doing it, and I wanted to change that. I did it because I thought that’s a great profession, and I could do a good job at it.”

 

 

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