David Harewood

Spirit Award nominee and British actor David Harewood OBE is perhaps best known for his role as David Estes in Homeland opposite Clare Danes and Damien Lewis as well as the role of J’onn J’onzz in The CW’s Supergirl with Melissa Benoist. His recent tv credits include Paramount+’s Happy Face with Dennis Quaid and The Agency with Michael Fassbender, Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright. David has just wrapped filming a new series entitled PIERRE for Channel 4 in which he plays the lead character Pierre Jeffreys, a West London duty solicitor drawn into a chilling web of institutional corruption. Other TV credits include  BBC’s The Night Manager with Tom Hiddleston, Sherwood with David Morrissey, The Man in the High Castle, BBC’s Doctor Who and many more. Additionally his Supergirl character also appeared in The CW’s Arrow, the CW’s The Flash and HBO Max’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. His film credits include Warner Bros.’s Blood Diamond as Captain Poison, Fox’s MI-5 with Kit Harrington, Columbia Pictures’s The Brothers Grimsby with Sacha Baron Cohen and he can next be seen on the big screen in Zero AD: Bethlehem as Mystic.

His theatre credits include being the first black actor to play Othello at the National Theatre in 1997, the role of William F Buckley Jr in the award winning Best of Enemies, which transferred to the Noel Coward Theatre after a hugely successful run at the Young Vic, Theseus in Welcome to the Thebes at the National Theatre, Hotspur in Henry IV and Lord Asriel in His Dark Materials also at the National Theatre. David also played Martin Luther King in the Olivier winning play The Mountaintop that transferred to the West End after a successful run at Theatre503.

David started his production company Section52Films in 2024 after his work with the BBC on documentaries; Psychosis and Me,Why is Covid Killing People of Colour?and David Harewood on Blackface. He also published his memoir Maybe I Don’t Belong Here in 2021. In 2024, succeeding Sir Kenneth Branagh, David was named President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as well as being given an OBE for services to drama, charity and his work advocating on matters of mental health.