Celebrated British actor Daniel Kaluuya is of average height. Standing at 1.74m tall, he achieved a career breakthrough after starring in Jordan Peele’s popular and first horror film Get Out, which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

This was followed by roles in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018), Steve McQueen’s Widows (2018), Melina Matsoukas’s Queen & Slim (2019) and Peele’s Nope (2022).

For his portrayal of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), he won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor.

At age 32, Kaluuya became the seventh-youngest winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is also the first British actor of African heritage to win an Academy Award.

Kaluuya wrote his first play at the age of nine, after which he began performing improvisational theatre. He began acting as a child at his local Anna Scher Theatre School and WAC Arts.

He appeared in his first credited acting role in 2006 as Reece in the BBC’s controversial drama Shoot the Messenger.

Kaluuya then joined the original cast of Skins as Posh Kenneth, where he was also a contributing writer on the first two seasons of the series, as well as the head writer of the episodes titled “Jal” and “Thomas.”