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John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega, known professionally as John Boyega, is an English actor and producer. He first gained recognition in Britain for his role as a teenage gang leader in the comedy horror film Attack the Block (2011) before he had his international breakthrough playing Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). During his time as a cast member of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Boye…
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entertainment · English actor (born 1992) · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · also John Boyega, Boyega
Born 17 March 1992 · Q1699385
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GeekTyrant: John Boyega Wants Prequel Character to Return to Train Finn in a Future STAR WARS Project
Yahoo: Star Wars: John Boyega Wants Major Prequel Character to Be Finn’s New Jedi Mentor
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The A.V. Club: John Boyega says he would've made a very different Star Wars sequel trilogy
collider: John Boyega Just Revealed What Finn Was Trying To Say to Rey in the Sandpit, and It Would Have Completely Changed ‘Rise of Skywalker’ and the Jedi
AOL: John Boyega Only Had £45 in the Bank When Director J.J. Abrams Told Him He Won “Star Wars” Role
The Guardian: John Boyega to play Otis Redding in new biopic alongside Danielle Deadwyler
The Guardian: John Boyega tells of ‘life-changing’ friendship with Damilola Taylor
Collider: John Boyega Was a Sci-Fi King Way Before Star Wars
New York Post: John Boyega claims he spoke with ailing Jamie Foxx, reveals: ‘He’s all good’
The Guardian: ‘I make dreams come true’ – the star-maker who shot Letitia Wright, John Boyega and more to glory
Wired: John Boyega Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions
The Guardian: Breaking (aka 892) review – John Boyega holds together by-the-book hostage drama
Boyega was the lead in Abi Damaris Corbin's second feature film, Breaking, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival under its original title, 892, as well as Gina Prince-Bythewood's historical epic The Woman K
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The Guardian: Naked Singularity review – John Boyega offers fig leaf for bizarre legal drama
The Guardian: Sundance 2022: Lena Dunham, John Boyega and Emma Thompson lead lineup
The Guardian: John Boyega exits Netflix movie mid-shoot for ‘family reasons’
When he won a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Leroy Logan in Red, White and Blue, a part of Steve McQueen's anthology series Small Axe
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Boyega teased his new collaboration with Writer/Director Sebastian Thiel, with whom he is developing a series based on their childhood experiences and that he would be producing
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Boyega's production company co-produced (with Legendary Entertainment) 2018's Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to the 2013 movie Pacific Rim, in which he played the lead role of Jake Pentecost
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Boyega played the part of a part-time security guard in Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow's film about the 1967 Detroit riots, and reprised his role as Finn in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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And the Trophée Chopard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
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Boyega was cast in the British drama film Junkhearts as Jamal, a drug dealer who finds some guns and tries to sell them
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Boyega began his secondary education at Westminster City School, where he was in various school productions
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Born 1992-03-17.
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In the Camberwell district of London and grew up in Peckham
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