Benjamin Zephaniah
Acting Born Apr 15, 1958 Handsworth, Birmingham, England, UK 24 credits
Biography
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (April 15, 1958 - December 7, 2023) was a British writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.
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Full filmography
- Peaky Blinders (2013) as Jeremiah Jesus
- QI (2003) as Self
- Question Time (1979) as Self - Panellist
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011) as Self - Participant
- The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) as Rufus
- Parkinson (1998) as Self
- Celebrity Mastermind (2003)
- ScreenPlay (1986) as Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Big Questions (2007) as Self
- The Big Narstie Show (2018) as Self
- Frankie Boyle's New World Order (2017) as Self
- 40 Minutes (1981)
- Mad Dogs (2002) as Poet
- Didn't You Kill My Brother? (1988) as Rufus
- Life & Rhymes (2020) as Himself
- Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World (2020) as Self
- Dread Poets' Society (1992) as Self
- Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby (2024) as Narrator
- I Bring You Frankincense (1996) as Richard's father
- Farendj (1990) as Moses
- Truth or Dairy (1994) as Self
- Time and Judgement: A Diary of a 400 Year Exile (1988) as Street Corner Poet 1
- A Picture of Birmingham, by Benjamin Zephaniah (2005) as Self
- PS Your Mystery Sender (2010)