Biography
Kobna Kuttah Holdbrook-Smith (born 23 August 1977) is a Ghanaian-English actor. He has played roles in films, including Father Richard Emery in Ghost Stories (2017), Oliver in The Commuter, Templeton Frye in Mary Poppins Returns and Doctor Wren in Gwen (2018). He has portrayed Crispus Allen in the superhero film Justice League (2017), part of the DC Extended Universe. For his performance in Tina in the West End, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Description above f...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
2026
George Hardy, a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep ca...

The Gorge
2025
as Black Ops Commander
Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, t...

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
2025
as Tullus Aufidius
Unrivalled in the art of war, undefeated on the field of battle, Coriolanus is Rome’s greatest soldier. When a legendary victory brings the opportuni...

Apartment 7A
2024
as BJ
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.

National Theatre Live: The Effect
2024
as Dr Toby Sealey
Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of ...

Wonka
2023
as Officer Affable
Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with ...

Sumotherhood
2023
as Shotti
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...

Pretty Hands
2023
as Pastor Paul
After recently moving to a seaside town, a single mother’s mental state derails as she becomes increasingly convinced that someone is trying to steal...

TAMING A SEAHORSE
2023
as Solomon
A tired cab driver's spirit is tested early into his night shift when he picks up an unusual customer.

Twice As Good
2022
as Dee Dee (Adult)
The night before her son Dee Dee’s seventh birthday, an unexpected intruder crash-lands into Grace’s kitchen. As she discovers who the intruder, Grace...

Superworm
2021
as Wizard Lizard (voice)
Superworm is super-long and super-strong, and is always saving the day. But who can save him when he gets too full of himself and is captured by the e...

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as Detective Crispus Allen
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...

Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Frye / Weasel (voice)
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

Gwen
2018
as Doctor Wren
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in t...

Ghost Stories
2018
as Father Emery
Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test...

The Commuter
2018
as Oliver
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those ...

Justice League
2017
as Detective Crispus Allen
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisti...

Paddington 2
2017
as Warden Walker
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Doctor Strange
2016
as Physical Therapist
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to de...

The Roof
2016
as David Lan's Assistant
A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans.

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015
as Laertes
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages again...

The Double
2014
as Guard / Doctor
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman ...

Turks & Caicos
2014
as Colin Maitlis
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new...

National Theatre Live: Antigone
2012
as Messenger
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the tr...
Womack
2012
as Dan Tan
A vicious crime leaves a Brooklyn man wrestling with his conscience in this short film.
Rahab
2012
as Mill
A slave, a spy, a city under siege and a choice to be made that will change their world forever.

Roadkill
2011
as Tommy
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form o...

Whites
2010
as Barnaby
Comedy series set in the kitchen of a country house hotel, following the trials and tribulations of head chef Roland White and his long suffering sous...

Silent Drift
N/A
as John-Michael
"Silent Drift" is a romantic thriller with cinematic elements of film noir set in the Caribbean. This extraordinary story depicts the complicated narr...

End Of Play
N/A
as The Caretaker
Seven’s a downtrodden Junior Creative at a cosmic agency that creates worlds. When he’s unexpectedly gifted the opportunity to create his dream world,...