Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

1977-08-23 Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana 30 Credits

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...

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Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie

2026

Acting

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

The Gorge

2025

as Black Ops Commander

7.7
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

2025

as Tullus Aufidius

Acting

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

Apartment 7A

2024

as BJ

6.2
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: The Effect

2024

as Dr Toby Sealey

Acting

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

Wonka

2023

as Officer Affable

7.1
Acting

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

Sumotherhood

2023

as Shotti

5.1
Acting

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

Pretty Hands

2023

as Pastor Paul

Acting

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

TAMING A SEAHORSE

2023

as Solomon

10.0
Acting

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

Twice As Good

Twice As Good

2022

as Dee Dee (Adult)

5.5
Acting

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

Superworm

2021

as Wizard Lizard (voice)

6.2
Acting

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

Zack Snyder's Justice League

2021

as Detective Crispus Allen

8.1
Acting

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

Mary Poppins Returns

2018

as Frye / Weasel (voice)

6.5
Acting

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

Gwen

Gwen

2018

as Doctor Wren

5.4
Acting

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

Ghost Stories

2018

as Father Emery

6.4
Acting

Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test...

The Commuter

The Commuter

2018

as Oliver

6.4
Acting

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

Justice League

2017

as Detective Crispus Allen

6.1
Acting

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

Paddington 2

2017

as Warden Walker

7.5
Acting

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

Doctor Strange

2016

as Physical Therapist

7.4
Acting

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

The Roof

2016

as David Lan's Assistant

6.3
Acting

A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans.

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2015

as Laertes

7.5
Acting

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

The Double

2014

as Guard / Doctor

6.5
Acting

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

Turks & Caicos

2014

as Colin Maitlis

6.3
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: Antigone

2012

as Messenger

10.0
Acting

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

Acting

A vicious crime leaves a Brooklyn man wrestling with his conscience in this short film.

Rahab

2012

as Mill

4.7
Acting

A slave, a spy, a city under siege and a choice to be made that will change their world forever.

Roadkill

Roadkill

2011

as Tommy

5.6
Acting

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

Whites

2010

as Barnaby

Acting

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

Silent Drift

N/A

as John-Michael

Acting

"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

End Of Play

N/A

as The Caretaker

Acting

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,...