Biography
Danny Sapani is a British-Ghanaian actor. He is best known for appearing in Misfits, Doctor Who, Penny Dreadful, The Crown, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Black Panther.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Amateur
2025
as Caleb
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into ...

Mango
2025
as Loxley
Zadie is an independent florist, privately suffering from fibroids, but determined to take her career to the next level. When a dream job arrives, Zad...

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024
as Kambili Kalu
During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A tru...

The Red Ball
2024
as Father
A grief-stricken family migrate from busy London to suburban Basildon looking for a fresh start, but young Bamike is not ready to move on.

Girl
2023
as Samuel
A young mother is forced to face the truth of her past life as her daughter approaches adolescence and strives for new freedom.

Sumotherhood
2023
as Leo Demarco
Riko and Kane have got it all: big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any worse? Yes! So, it’s time to man up and finally b...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
as Border Tribe Elder
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s dea...

ear for eye
2021
as US Adult
From front rooms, Black families, friends, students and older generations navigate British and American society today.
Hymn
2021
as Benny
Two men meet at a funeral. Benny is a loner anchored by his wife and children. Gil longs to fulfil his potential. They form a deep bond but as cracks ...

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
as Tshembe Matoseh
An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tens...

Black Panther
2018
as Border Tribe Elder
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Chall...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
as Medical Frigate Captain
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resist...

The Siege of Jadotville
2016
as Moise Tshombe
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.

National Theatre Live: Medea
2014
as Jason
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for...

Singam 2
2013
as Danny
Picking up the storyline from where Singam ended, Duraisingam has gone undercover after meeting the Home Minister and is working as an NCC officer in ...

Trance
2013
as Nate
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

Tezz
2012
as Train Driver David
To revenge his past, Aakash Rana plants bomb in a train endangering lives of 500 passengers.

Hard Boiled Sweets
2012
as Leroy
Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, j...

Shirley
2011
as Bobo
Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splo...

Perfect
2009
as Ike
A sometimes fantastical love story set in Notting Hill, Perfect tells the story of what happens when Adam and Liberty's paths cross and how their worl...

The Oxford Murders
2008
as Scott
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symb...

Anansi
2003
as Adolph
The story of an adventurous odyssey experienced by a group of West Africans to build a new life in Germany.

Hotel
2001
as AJ
A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.

B&B
1992
as Henry
An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.

Call Me Queen
N/A
The film depicts a friendship between an Irish journalist in Kenya and a Rwandan woman, who pair up to combat the AIDS crisis in the 1990s.