Idris Elba Set to Star in Upcoming Netflix Series TURN UP CHARLIE

Netflix has announced that Idris Elba will star in an upcoming original Netflix series Turn Up Charlie.

In the series, Idris Elba plays Charlie, a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor, who's given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a manny to his famous best friend's problem-child daughter.

Elba is best known for playing DCI John LUTHER on the BBC One series LUTHER as well as the narcotrafficker Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire, and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film, winning one, and was nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Elba also appeared in Ridley Scott's American Gangster, Takers, Thor, and its sequels Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok. He was also in Prometheus, Pacific Rim, Beasts of No Nation, for which he received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor, and Molly's Game. In 2016, he voiced Chief Bogo in Zootopia, Shere Khan in The Jungle Book, Fluke in Finding Dory and played the role of Krall in Star Trek Beyond. He will make his directorial debut with an adaptation of the 1992 novel Yardie by Victor Headley

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