David Oyelowo is an actor, producer, director, and writer.

He has played supporting roles in the films Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Middle of Nowhere (2012), Lincoln (2012), and garnered praise for portraying Louis Gaines in The Butler (2013).

On television, he played MI5 officer Danny Hunter in the British series Spooks (2002–04), and provides the voice of Imperial Security Bureau agent Kallus on the animated series Star Wars Rebels.

In 2014, Oyelowo played Martin Luther King, Jr. in the biographical drama film Selma, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor (Drama).

He recently played Peter Snowden in TV movie Nightingale which he won a Critic's Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a TV Movie-limited series.