Background

Anozie was born on November 17, 1978, in London, England. He is Igbo Nigerian descent.

Education

Nonso Anozie graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2002.

Career

In 2002, Anozie played the title role in William Shakespeare's King Lear. Anozie was hired in 2006 to provide the voice for the armored bear Iorek Byrnison in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. Anozie was replaced by Ian McKellen two months before the film was set to be released.

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. 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, and from 2013 to 2014 he played the role of Renfield on the NBC series Dracula. In November 2014, Anozie was cast in the CBS summer drama Zoo, based on the novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge.

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

Achievements

• Nonso Anozie won the Ian Charleson Award in 2004 for his performance in Othello. He was the winner of the 2004 Magnolia Stage Performance Award in China and was the first non-Chinese to be honored with the prize of the best actor. In the summer of 2002, he became the youngest person in history to play William Shakespeare's "King Lear" professionally.
  
  

Works

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  • Get Santa

    (After crashing his sleigh and coming to the attention of ...)

    2014
  • Ender's Game

    (Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young strategist, is recruited ...)

    2013
  • Pan

    (Peter is a mischievous boy who is whisked off to the magi...)

    2015
  • Nanny McPhee Returns

    (Caught between a hectic life of tending to the family far...)

    2010
  • Conan The Barbarian

    (Conan, who was sold into slavery when he was a kid, sets ...)

    2011
  • Atonement

    (Briony Tallis falsely accuses her sister's lover, Robbie,...)

    2007
  • Guava Island

    (A young musician seeks to hold a festival to liberate the...)

    2019
  • Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

    (Jack Ryan, a second lieutenant in the US Marine Corps, tr...)

    2014
  • 7 Days in Entebbe

    (In 1976, a terrorist group hijacks a Tel Aviv to Paris bo...)

    2018
  • Happy-Go-Lucky

    (Poppy is a 30-year-old, happy-go-lucky school teacher who...)

    2008
  • The Last Legion

    (The Last Legion reveals the fall of Rome and the birth of...)

    2007
  • Brighton Rock

    (A desperate youth who is hell-bent on clawing his way up ...)

    2010
  • Cinderella

    (After the untimely death of her father, Ella is troubled ...)

    2015
  • I Am Slave

    (A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a ...)

    2010
  • Rocknrolla

    (A real-estate scam worth millions grabs the attention of ...)

    2008
  • All Is True

    (A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwrig...)

    2018
  • The Grey

    (John, a wolf hunter, is one of eight survivors in a plane...)

    2011

• TV series

  • Game of Thrones

    (Nine noble families wage war against each other in order ...)

    2012

Views

Quotations: "I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is."

"Ender's Game (2013) is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out."

"I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage."

"Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well."

"As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I'm 6'6", and agents might [normally] cast me in tough-guy roles or the big guy in the back, I've been very blessed to do roles that makes them think twice about how they're gonna cast me."

"I wouldn't say I'm moving to America; I certainly would say that I'm just staying there; and I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to come here unless they've got an extensive CV in the U.K.; you have to build your career wherever you started from."

Personality

Physical Characteristics: Nonso weighs 127 kg and has a height of 6 feet 6 inches. The color of his hair is black and the color of his eye is dark brown.

Quotes from others about the person

• 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."

Interests

• Writers

  Tomi Adeyemi

• Artists

  Arinze Kene

• Sport & Clubs

  Football

• Athletes

  Liverpool F.C.

• Music & Bands

  Janet Jackson

Connections

Nonso Anozie is not married.

colleague:

Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the HBO series ‘Game of Thrones.’

colleague:

Jason Momoa

(born August 1, 1979)

He is an American actor.

colleague:

Iain Glen

(born 24 June 1961)

He is a Scottish actor.

References

• Nonso Anozie - Instagram
• Nonso Anozie - Twitter