KINGSLEY BEN-ADIR — COLONEL BEN YOUNGER FROM PEAKY BLINDERS

Mir Imad Ahmed
3 min readFeb 8, 2021

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KINGSLEY BEN-ADIR — COLONEL BEN YOUNGER FROM PEAKY BLINDERS

  1. Kingsley Ben-Adir was born in 1986.
  2. He is a British television, film, and stage actor.
  3. He has performed in several plays in London theatres.
  4. Ben-Adir attended William Ellis School in Gospel Oak, Northwest London.
  5. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011.
  6. He plays pathologist Marcus Summer in ITV’s detective drama Vera and private detective Karim Washington on the second season of the Netflix series The OA.
  7. In 2011, Ben-Adir performed in Gillian Slovo’s critically acclaimed sell-out play The Riots at the Tricycle Theatre.
  8. In 2012, he played Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
  9. In 2013, he played Borachio in Mark Rylance’s production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic in London and also played in God’s Property at the Soho Theatre.
  10. In 2014, Ben-Adir performed in the play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 at the Bush Theatre in London. The play received positive reviews.
  11. Ben-Adir plays Sampson in Adam Smith’s British crime drama Trespass Against Us starring Michael Fassbender and Sir Tristan “Wet Stick” in Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
  12. Some of the other films he has appeared in include; Vera and The OA, amongst many others.
  13. In 2013, he played Borachio in Mark Rylance’s production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic in London and also played in God’s Property at the Soho Theatre.
  14. He appeared in Peaky Blinders as a young army intelligence head in the 4th and 5th series.
  15. Colonel Ben Younger was head of army intelligence officers who arrived in Birmingham and arrested Ada Shelby over her Communist past.
  16. He later strikes a deal with Thomas Shelby regarding information about both the Communist and Fascist Party.
  17. What seemed to be the only business at first regarding trading information about the Communist Party at the behest of Tommy.
  18. Ada and Ben grew close and their relationship soon turned passionate which resulted in Ada becoming pregnant with a Younger child.
  19. Unfortunately, Ben never discovered this as he was killed before Ada got the chance to tell him. Upon discovery of Ben’s death,
  20. Ada was distraught and upset, claiming she didn’t love him but was very fond of him. Now her new child will be fatherless like their elder brother Karl.
  21. He isn’t engaged with any web-based life destinations.
  22. Functioning as an on-screen character, he most likely assembled a million dollar worth.
  23. Kingsley has an estimated Net Worth of $100k to $1 million dollars.
  24. Scoot is also a cast in a series called Love life which is an upcoming American romantic comedy anthology television series created by Sam Boyd that is set to debut on the HBO Max streaming service for its launch on May 27, 2020.

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Mir Imad Ahmed

An expert developer, mentor, and coach. He is a software engineer by education and entrepreneur by profession.