highest rated
acting
- Extraction 3 → Alcott
- Zootopia 3 → Chief Bogo (voice)
- Above the Below → Jackson
- Infernus → Donovan Kamara
- Bang!
- This Is How It Goes
- Untitled Luther Sequel → John Luther
- Hammer Down → Mac
- Stay Frosty
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4 → Knuckles (voice)
- High in the Clouds → Barrel (voice)
- Children of Blood and Bone → Lekan
- Masters of the Universe → Duncan / Man-At-Arms
- Road to Glory (TV) → Self
- Zootopia 2 → Chief Bogo (voice)
- Heads of State → Sam Clarke
- Number One on the Call Sheet (TV) → Self
- A House of Dynamite → POTUS
- Fixed → Rocco (voice)
- Victory → Idris Elba
- Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis → Self - Presenter
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 → Knuckles (voice)
- Knuckles (TV) → Knuckles the Echidna (voice)
- Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Hijack (TV) → Sam Nelson
- Extraction 2 → Alcott
- Luther: The Fallen Sun → John Luther
- Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba
- Thor: Love and Thunder → Heimdall
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 → Knuckles (voice)
- Zootopia+ (TV) → Chief Bogo (voice)
- Beast → Dr. Nate Daniels
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse → The Fox (voice)
- Three Thousand Years of Longing → The Djinn
- The Evolution of Black British Music (TV) → Self
- Human Playground (TV) → Self - Host
- Idris Elba's Fight School (TV) → Self
- What If...? (TV) → Heimdall (voice)
- The Suicide Squad → Bloodsport
- The Harder They Fall → Rufus Buck
- An Audience with Adele → Self
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony → Self
- Passion Project → Self
- A World of Calm (TV) → Narrator
- Coronavirus, Explained (TV) → Self - Narrator
- One World: Together at Home → Self
- Oprah Talks COVID-19 (TV) → Self
- Concrete Cowboy → Harp
- Elba vs. Block (TV) → Self
- Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort → Self
- Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney → Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV) → Guest - Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw → Brixton
- Cats → Macavity
- Turn Up Charlie (TV) → Charlie
- Kroos → Self
- Avengers: Infinity War → Heimdall
- The Shop (TV) → Self
- In the Long Run (TV) → Walter Easmon
- Thor: Ragnarok → Heimdall
- The Dark Tower → Roland Deschain
- Molly's Game → Charlie Jaffey
- Guerrilla (TV) → Kent
- The Mountain Between Us → Dr. Ben Bass
- five by five (TV) → Alpha Ash
- Idris Elba: Fighter (TV) → Self
- Zootopia → Chief Bogo (voice)
- The Jungle Book → Shere Khan (voice)
- Finding Dory → Fluke (voice)
- Star Trek Beyond → Krall
- Bastille Day → Sean Briar
- Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour → Self
- 100 Streets → Max
- Marine Life Interviews → Fluke (voice)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV) → Self - Guest
- Hot Ones (TV) → Self
- Avengers: Age of Ultron → Heimdall
- The Gunman → Barnes
- Beasts of No Nation → Commandant
- Idris Elba: No Limits (TV) → Self
- Cut from a Different Cloth
- King for a Term → Akuna's father
- Mandela, My Dad and Me → Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV) → Self - Guest
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV) → Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV) → Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV) → Self - Guest
- Chicken Shop Date (TV) → Self - Guest
- Chicken Shop Date (TV) → Self - Guest (archive footage)
- No Good Deed → Colin
- Second Coming → Mark
- Enchanted Kingdom → narrator
- The Last Leg (TV) → Self
- Pacific Rim → Stacker Pentecost
- Thor: The Dark World → Heimdall
- The Frame (TV) → Stacker Pentecost
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom → Nelson Mandela
- Idris Elba: King of Speed (TV) → Self
- Playhouse Presents (TV) → Akuna's Father / Narrator
- Prometheus → Janek
- The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus → Self
- The Path to Vengeance: Making 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' → Self
- The Peter Weyland Files: 'Prometheus' Transmission → Janek
- How Clubbing Changed the World → Self
- Thor → Heimdall
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance → Moreau
- How Hip Hop Changed the World → Self
- Gumball 3000: LDN 2 NYC → Self
- Luther (TV) → John Luther
- The Losers → Roque
- Takers → Gordon Jennings
- Legacy → Malcolm Gray
- The Unborn → Arthur Wyndham
- Obsessed → Derek Charles
- RocknRolla → Mumbles
- Prom Night → Detective Winn
- The Human Contract → Larry
- The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self
- 28 Weeks Later → General Stone
- American Gangster → Tango
- The Reaping → Ben
- Daddy's Little Girls → Monty James
- This Christmas → Quentin "Junior" Whitfield
- Tapping the Wire → Self
- All In The Game → Paul
- The Office (TV) → Charles Miner
- The Tyra Banks Show (TV) → Self
- Made in Hollywood (TV) → Self
- Sometimes in April → Augustin
- The Gospel → Reverend Charles Frank
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV) → Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV) → Self - Guest
- One Love → Aaron
- CSI: Miami (TV) → Angelo Sedaris
- The Wire (TV) → Stringer Bell
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (TV) → Robert Gabriel
- Hack (TV) → Mac Boone
- Buffalo Soldiers → Kimborough
- Girlfriends (TV) → Paul Raymond
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV) → Police Officer (voice)
- Soul Food (TV) → Smitty
- Sorted → Jam
- Belle Maman → Grégoire
- Ultraviolet (TV) → Vaughan Rice
- The View (TV) → Self
- The Daily Show (TV) → Self
- Silent Witness (TV) → Charlie
- Spiders and Flies → Benton
- The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA (TV) → Self - Host
- Bramwell (TV) → Charlie Carter
- Dangerfield (TV) → Matt Gregory
- The Governor (TV) → Officer Chiswick
- Space Precinct (TV) → Pizza Delivery Man
- MTV Europe Music Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Crocodile Shoes (TV) → Jo Jo
- Absolutely Fabulous (TV) → Hilton
- 2Point4 Children (TV) → Parachute Instructor
- Law & Order (TV) → Lonnie Liston
- The Simpsons (TV) → Devil (voice)
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV) → Self - Guest
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV) → Raffy
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Host
- The Oscars (TV) → Self