John Boyega

Screen international Star of Tomorrow John Boyega is one of the UK’s brightest new talents. John has
recently finished filming the highly anticipated Half of a Yellow Sun, as well
as action sci-fi horror Creeping Zero. He made his film debut in 2011 as Moses
in the hugely successful Attack the Block, which earned him a Best Newcomer nomination
at the 2011 BIFAs, as well as at the Critics’ Circle Film Awards, Evening
Standard Film Awards and Empire Awards, and won the award for Outstanding Actor
at the 2012 Black Reel Awards. Previous work includes Junkhearts, and TV’s My
Murder, Spike Lee’s Da Brick, a lead guest role in ITV’s hit series Law and
Order: UK and one of the lead roles in Becoming Human. In theatre, John has
played a variety of notable roles including Six Parties at the National Theatre
and Tricycle Theatre’s productions of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Seize the Day and
Paulette Randall’s Category B

BIFA Roles

2012 Jury Member