British Actors You Should Know: Daniel Kaluuya

The 2018 BAFTA Film Awards ceremony results turned out pretty much as expected. Gary Oldman’s performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour won Leading Actor, Allison Janney nabbed Supporting Actress for I, Tonya, Guillermo Del Toro was named Best Director for The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri gobbled up just about every other major award.

The category I was most anxious to hear about, however, was the annual Rising Star Award, the only BAFTA award voted on by the public. It recognizes “a young actor or actress who has demonstrated exceptional talent and ambition and has begun to capture the imagination of the British public.” I had my fingers crossed that a certain actor’s name would be called and then this happened.