Idris Elba Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Idris Elba filmography covers 61 movie titles and 19 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Idris Elba movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Belle Maman (1999) as Grégoire
• Buffalo Soldiers (2002) as Kimborough
• Sometimes in April (2005) as Augustin
• 28 Weeks Later (2007) as General Stone
• American Gangster (2007) as Tango
• Daddy's Little Girls (2007) as Monty James
• The Reaping (2007) as Ben
• This Christmas (2007) as Quentin "Junior" Whitfield
• Prom Night (2008) as Detective Winn
• RocknRolla (2008) as Mumbles
• The Human Contract (2008) as Larry
• Obsessed (2009) as Derek Charles
• The Unborn (2009) as Arthur Wyndham
• Legacy (2010) as Malcolm Gray
• Takers (2010) as Gordon Jennings
• The Losers (2010) as Roque
• Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011) as Moreau
• Thor (2011) as Heimdall
• Prometheus (2012) as Janek
• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) as Nelson Mandela
• Pacific Rim (2013) as Stacker Pentecost
• Thor: The Dark World (2013) as Heimdall
• Enchanted Kingdom (2014) as narrator
• No Good Deed (2014) as Colin
• Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) as Heimdall
• Beasts of No Nation (2015) as Commandant
• The Gunman (2015) as Barnes
• 100 Streets (2016) as Max
• Bastille Day (2016) as Sean Briar
• Finding Dory (2016) as Fluke (voice)
• Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour (2016) as Self
• Marine Life Interviews (2016) as Fluke (voice)
• Star Trek Beyond (2016) as Krall
• The Jungle Book (2016) as Shere Khan (voice)
• Zootopia (2016) as Chief Bogo (voice)
• Molly's Game (2017) as Charlie Jaffey
• The Dark Tower (2017) as Roland Deschain
• The Mountain Between Us (2017) as Dr. Ben Bass
• Thor: Ragnarok (2017) as Heimdall
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Heimdall
• Cats (2019) as Macavity
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) as Brixton
• Kroos (2019) as Self
• Concrete Cowboy (2020) as Harp
• One World: Together at Home (2020) as Self
• An Audience with Adele (2021) as Self
• The Harder They Fall (2021) as Rufus Buck
• The Suicide Squad (2021) as Bloodsport
• Beast (2022) as Dr. Nate Daniels
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) as Knuckles (voice)
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) as The Fox (voice)
• Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) as Heimdall
• Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) as The Djinn
• Extraction 2 (2023) as Alcott
• Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) as John Luther
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) as Knuckles (voice)
• A House of Dynamite (2025) as POTUS
• Fixed (2025) as Rocco (voice)
• Heads of State (2025) as Sam Clarke
• Zootopia 2 (2025) as Chief Bogo (voice)
• Masters of the Universe (2026) as Duncan / Man-At-Arms

Idris Elba television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Idris Elba; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Absolutely Fabulous as Hilton
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Police Officer (voice)
• Coronavirus, Explained as Self - Narrator
• CSI: Miami as Angelo Sedaris
• Girlfriends as Paul Raymond
• Hijack as Sam Nelson
• Knuckles as Knuckles the Echidna (voice)
• Law & Order as Lonnie Liston
• Luther as John Luther
• Silent Witness as Charlie
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Robert Gabriel
• The Office as Charles Miner
• The Oscars as Self
• The Simpsons as Devil (voice)
• The Wire as Stringer Bell
• Turn Up Charlie as Charlie
• Ultraviolet as Vaughan Rice
• What If...? as Heimdall (voice)
• Zootopia+ as Chief Bogo (voice)

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Idris Elba's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.