David Harewood
Born | December 8, 1965 |
Hometown | Small Heath, United Kingdom |
Net worth | $5 million |
Height | 6'1" (1.85m) |
Spouse | Kirsty Handy (m 2013 - present) |
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Growing criticism of Braverman’s ‘cruel’ dropping of Windrush pledges
- Baroness Floella Benjamin and actor David Harewood add to the anger of the Home Secretary’s ‘awful’ decision.
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AWARDS
Year | Associations | Category | Work | Result |
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2013 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Homeland | Nominated |
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New Year Honours list: Lionesses and Queen's Brian May among those recognised by King Charles
Four Lionesses have been recognised in the New Year Honours list, which also sees Queen guitarist Brian May and artist Grayson Perry knighted. The gongs are the first to be issued by King Charles, with a range of politicians and charity workers also honoured. Captain Leah Williamson is among four of England's Euro 2022-winning side to be named in the list, being made an OBE while her teammates Lucy Bronze, Beth Mead and Ellen White are all made MBEs.
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Best of Enemies review – stylish staging of a landmark TV clash
The 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr is depicted with verve and feels uncomfortably up-to-date
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Best of Enemies at the Noel Coward Theatre review: James Graham’s play is as searingly insightful as ever
5/5 This look at the corruption of modern political discourse is dynamic and intoxicating
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Shock and Gore: the original culture-war punch-up on stage
Ding-dong merrily on high! Here’s the West End transfer of James Graham’s riveting dramatisation of the televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr. The verbal slug-outs between those ornately articulate exponents of post-war liberalism and conservatism increasingly gripped America during the Republican and Democratic Party conventions, in the run-up to the presidential election, in riot-torn 1968. And do so now, thousands of miles away and half a lifetime later.
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David Harewood: ‘If a white actor wanted to play Martin Luther King, I’d say go for it’
“You can hear people’s brains clicking for the first 10 minutes,” David Harewood says with a smile, as he relays how audiences have responded to his performance in Best of Enemies, the hit James Graham play of last year that is about to open in the West End.
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Zachary Quinto: ‘There’s a tremendous fear around openly gay men in our industry’
INTERVIEW: The Star Trek actor talks to<strong> Louis Chilton</strong> about the ‘provocateur’ Ryan Murphy, how TV has damaged debate, and why he thinks democracy may not survive
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Exodus of top arts bodies as they follow levelling-up cash out of London
Company that brought Jenna Coleman and Anne-Marie Duff to the stage lead arts exodus from London
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‘You think you can control the weather’: David Harewood opens up about experience of psychosis
Actor experienced an episode of psychosis at age 23
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Zachary Quinto to star in West End production of Best of Enemies
Star Trek actor will play Gore Vidal in play based on 1968 TV debates that transformed political broadcasting
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David Harewood to interview BBC chairman Richard Sharp at Edinburgh TV Festival
David Harewood will interview BBC chairman Richard Sharp at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival. Sky News is the official broadcast partner of this year's Edinburgh TV Festival, and will bring exclusive coverage on mobile, TV, and podcast over the three-day event. Homeland star Harewood will also be involved in a second session, where he will chat to festival chair and former Sky News social affairs and education editor Afua Hirsch.
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