Gbenga Akinnagbe
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Gbenga Akinnagbeis an American actor and writer, best known for his role as Chris Partlow on the HBO series The Wire...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth12 December 1978
CountryNigeria
growing-up home numbers
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.
pain writing thinking
I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.
few stuff wear
Me personally, I like to wear as few artificially made products as possible. That stuff affects us, one way or another.
played range
I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor.
communication
I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.