DeObia Oparei | |
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Occupation(s) | Actor, playwright |
Years active | 1992–present |
DeObia Oparei (born 7 December 1971) is a British actor and playwright. He is best known for his roles as the Gunner in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Rongo in Dumbo (2019), and as Boastful Loki in Loki (2021).
Oparei was born on 7 December 1971 in Hackney, London, to parents of Nigerian ancestry. [1]
Oparei began his career working for various British theatre companies, like The Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Youth Theatre. [2] Oparei's film debut was a small supporting role in Alien 3 . After playing the lead role of American playwright John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation , Oparei scored his next supporting film role, as "Le Chocolat", in the Baz Luhrmann film Moulin Rouge! . In 1993, he appeared in an episode of the popular British television series Minder as 'Winston', a worker for Arthur Daley.
Operai moved to Sydney, Australia in 1995, [3] where he co-hosted the regular night 'Magic' upstairs at Kinselas with Basil, [4] and performed Operai's Queen bitch rap in cLUB bENT at The Performance Space, with Darren Spowart and Matthew Bergin. [5]
Oparei is also a playwright. His first play, Crazyblackmuthafuckin'self, a dramedy about race, sexuality and identity, opened to critical acclaim at the Royal Court Theatre in 2002. The Guardian's Michael Billington described the play as "wild, raunchy and funny". [6] The play later toured to Sydney, Australia, as part of the 2003 Company B Belvoir International Playreading Series, at the Belvoir Street Downstairs Theatre, on 11 August 2003. [7]
In 2015, Oparei joined the cast of the HBO epic fantasy series Game of Thrones in its fifth season, portraying the character Areo Hotah. [8]
On 5 June 2020, he came out as gay on Instagram. [9]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1992 | Alien 3 | Arthur | |
1998 | Dark City | Train Passenger | |
2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Le Chocolat | |
2002 | Dirty Pretty Things | Mini-Cab Driver | |
The Four Feathers | Idris-Es-Saier | ||
2003 | The Foreigner | Richard | |
2004 | Thunderbirds | Mullion | |
2005 | 7 Seconds | Spanky | Direct-to-video; Credited as Dhobi Oparei |
Doom | Sergeant Gannon "Destroyer" Roark | ||
2009 | Thick as Thieves | Rawls | |
Green Street 2: Stand Your Ground | Derrick Jackson | Direct-to-video | |
2010 | Mr. Nice | Tee Bone Taylor | |
Death Race 2 | Big Bill | ||
The Presence | Woodsman | ||
2011 | Your Highness | Thundarian | |
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Gunner | ||
2012 | Dredd | TJ the Paramedic | |
2013 | Tula: The Revolt | Hacha | |
2016 | Independence Day: Resurgence | Dikembe Umbutu | |
2019 | Dumbo | Rongo | |
Jumanji: The Next Level | Gromm | Credited as Deobia Oparei | |
2021 | Wrath of Man | Brad | |
2022 | The Gray Man | Dulin | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Blood Rights | Winston | |
Desmond's | Willy | Episode: "Auntie Susu" | |
Medics | King | Episode: "Iraj" | |
1992 | Between the Lines | Ruby | Episode: "Nothing Personal" |
1993 | Minder | Winston | Episode: "Cars and Pints and Pains" |
1998 | Wildside | Bernice | |
Trial & Retribution | DC Palmer | ||
2002 | Holby City | Dave Whellan | Episode: "Hearts and Minds" |
2015 | Proof | Mr. Oumandi | 2 episodes |
2015–2016 | Game of Thrones | Areo Hotah | 6 episodes |
2017 | Emerald City | Sullivan | Episode: "Mistress - New - Mistress" |
Santa Clarita Diet | Loki Hayes | 2 episodes | |
The Orville | Captain Vorak | Episode: "About a Girl" | |
2019 | Sex Education | Mr. Effiong | |
2021 | Loki | Boastful Loki | Episodes: "The Nexus Event" and "Journey into Mystery" |
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