Background
Boyega was born in Peckham, south London, to Nigerian parents, Abigail and Samson.
Boyega was born in Peckham, south London, to Nigerian parents, Abigail and Samson.
University of Greenwich.
Other credits include historical fiction drama film Half of a Yellow Sun (2013), four episodes of the television series 24: Live Another Day and the drama Imperial Dreams (2014). His first role was a leopard in a play at his primary school. Boyega was a pupil at Oliver Goldsmith Primary School.
While acting in a play there at the age of nine, he was noticed by Teresa Early, the artistic director of Theatre Peckham, a learning theatre for young people who live in south London.
After obtaining financial assistance from a hardship fund, he joined the theatre, spending his time there outside school hours between the ages of nine and 14. Boyega"s father, a preacher, had wanted Boyega to become a preacher too, but was supportive of his son"s theatrical interests.
In 2003, Boyega started his secondary education at Westminster City School, where he took part in various school productions. Between 2008 and 2010, he attended South Thames College at the college"s Wandsworth campus to study for a National Diploma in Performing Arts.
His activities at the college included playing the title role in the college"s production of Othello.
He then enrolled at the University of Greenwich to study Bachelor Studies & Media Writing, though he later dropped out of the course to focus on his acting career. Boyega trained at the Identity School of Acting in Hackney, and appeared in Six Parties at the National Theatre and Category B at the Tricycle Theatre prior to being offered a role in the 2011 film Attack the Block. In September 2011, Home Box Office announced that Boyega had been cast in the boxing drama pilot Da Brick, loosely based on Mike Tyson"s life.
Boyega was expected to play Donnie, who is released from a juvenile detention centre on his 18th birthday and begins to examine what it means to be a manitoba
The pilot was written by John Ridley, but was not picked up by Home Box Office. Also in 2011, he acted in the film Junkhearts in which he portrayed a drug dealer who finds some guns and tries to sell them. Boyega was chosen by Fionnuala Halligan of Screen International as one of the "United Kingdom Stars of Tomorrow 2011" and appeared alongside two other actors on the front cover of that magazine in its July 2011 edition
In March 2012, Boyega was cast in the film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"s book Half of a Yellow Sun. On 29 April 2014, it was confirmed that Boyega had been cast as a lead character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
lieutenant was later revealed Boyega would play Finn, a stormtrooper for the First Order, who leaves the fascist military power after witnessing their cruelty in his first combat mission before joining the fight against them.
The film was released on 18 December 2015. Both the film and Boyega"s performance received acclaim from both audiences and critics. Boyega has stated in an interview that he is a fan of Marvel Comics, and that he had hoped to play the Marvel character Black Panther.