- Children of Blood and Bone
2027 King Saran
- The Exorcist: Martyrs
2027 Father William
- Backrooms
2026 Clark
- The Life of Chuck
2025 Marty Anderson
- Eleanor the Great
2025 Roger
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025 Scott Walliker
- The Old Guard 2
2025 Copley
- Rob Peace
2024 Director
- Venom: The Last Dance
2024 Strickland
- The Brown Dog
2024 Executive Producer
- The Pod Generation
2023 Alvy
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 Baron Mordo
- Infinite
2021 Bathurst 2020
- Locked Down
2021 Paxton
- The Old Guard
2020 Copley
- Day Zero
2020 Narrator
- The Lion King
2019 Scar (voice)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
2019 Director
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 Conall
- Mary Magdalene
2018 Peter
- Come Sunday
2018 Carlton Pearson
- Sherlock Gnomes
2018 Dr. Watson (Voice)
- Red Nose Day Actually
2017 Peter
- Triple 9
2016 Michael Atwood
- Doctor Strange
2016 Mordo
- Z for Zachariah
2015 John Loomis
- The Martian
2015 Vincent Kapoor
- Secret in Their Eyes
2015 Ray
- National Theatre Live: Everyman
2015 Everyman
- 12 Years a Slave
2013 Solomon Northup
- Phil Spector
2013 Mock Prosecutor
- Savannah
2013 Christmas Moultrie
- Half of a Yellow Sun
2013 Odenigbo
- Columbite Tantalite
2013 Director
- Salt
2010 Darryl Peabody
- 2012
2009 Adrian Helmsley
- Endgame
2009 President Thabo Mbeki
- Redbelt
2008 Mike Terry
- The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy
2008 Narrator
- Slapper
2008 Director
- American Gangster
2007 Huey Lucas
- Talk to Me
2007 Dewey Hughes
- Partition: The Day India Burned
2007 Narrator
- Inside Man
2006 Bill Mitchell
- Children of Men
2006 Luke
- Four Brothers
2005 Victor Sweet
- Serenity
2005 The Operative
- Kinky Boots
2005 Lola/Simon
- Slow Burn
2005 Ty Trippin
- She Hate Me
2004 Frank Wills
- Melinda and Melinda
2004 Ellis Moonsong
- Red Dust
2004 Alex Mpondo
- Love Actually
2003 Peter
- Three Blind Mice
2003 Mark Hayward
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will
2003 Orsino
- Dirty Pretty Things
2002 Okwe
- Mind Games
2001 Tyler Arnold
- It Was an Accident
2000 Nicky Burkett
- G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
1999 Rix
- Amistad
1997 Ensign Covey
- Deadly Voyage
1996 Ebow
- Tonight at Noon
Lee / Evans
- Fela
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