Idris Elba - Actor, DJ, Legend
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781784181314
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS; Reference; Television actors and actresses; Entertainment & Performing Arts; Motion picture actors and actresses; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Male actors; Biography
Description: He's the ruthlessly ingenious drug lord?Stringer' Bell in The Wire, the obsessive Detective Chief Inspector in Luther, and the star of the long-awaited biopic of Nelson Mandela. Idris Elba inhabits each role as if he were born to play it, and approaches each performance as if it were his last. But what of the man himself? In this, the first biography of the onscreen legend, Nadia Cohen reveals Idris's life behind the lens, exploring just what it is that makes him so ambitious, adaptable and endlessly watchable. From humble beginnings, a second-generation immigrant born in.
Notes: Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER ONE: FROM HOLLY STREET TO HOLLYWOOD; CHAPTER TWO: STANDING OUT FROM THE CROWD; CHAPTER THREE: A ROYAL FAVOUR; CHAPTER FOUR: CHASING CARS; CHAPTER FIVE: A BITE OF THE BIG APPLE; CHAPTER SIX: THE BIG BREAK; CHAPTER SEVEN: HOLLYWOOD COMES CALLING; CHAPTER EIGHT: LEADING MAN; CHAPTER NINE: BLOCKBUSTERS; CHAPTER TEN: DETECTIVE LUTHER; CHAPTER ELEVEN: HEARTBREAK; CHAPTER TWELVE: ME? NELSON?; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: BRINGING MANDELA TO LIFE; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: TAKING IT PUBLIC; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: DJ BIG DRIIS.; title: CHAPTER SIXTEEN: KING OF SPEEDCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE FANS; EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE'S BRIGHT; FILMOGRAPHY; Plates; Copyright.