Ukweli Roach

Acting

Ukweli Roach

Born 1986-09-22 · Derby, England

Training Ukweli Roach trained at RADA. Theatre For the National Theatre: Bacchae Other theatre includes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida; Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Young Vic; Nightfall at the Bridge; 5, 6, 7, 8 (Rough Cuts) at the Royal Court; and Romeo and Juliet and Helen at Shakespeare’s Globe TV Piglets, Big Mood, Wolf, Annika, The Midwich Cuckcoos, Humans (season three), Hard Sun, Blindspot, Dickensian, The Royals, Grantchester, Silk (season three), Drifters, Starlings, Monroe (season two) and Eternal Law Film One Day, Venus and the Sun and StreetDance 3D (Published September 2025)

Acting credits

One Day poster
7.4

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

One Day

2011

StreetDance 3D poster
6.5

In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

StreetDance 3D

2010

National Theatre Live: Bacchae poster
NR

Fierce and unstoppable, they are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core — and liberate its women. But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin, King Pentheus, family loyalty, political power and human desire are pushed to breaking point.

National Theatre Live: Bacchae

2025

Venus & the Sun poster
5.0

Model and Page 3 favourite Keeley Hazell thinks she's solved all her problems by taking up an unexpectedly high-brow hobby: translating Latin. The language has given her magical powers, enabling her to ward-off the frenzied attention of her adoring fans, and the British Library offers an ideal refuge from the hordes. But when she meets Adam, the one Sun-reader in the country she hadn't bargained for, Keeley is given a lesson in not judging books by their covers. Her journey of discovery will reveal just how far she's come to rely on the advantages of fame. A warped retelling of Ovid's most famous myth, Venus and Adonis, and a comic study of society's obsession with the image.

Venus & the Sun

2011

Romeo and Juliet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe poster
7.2

Dominic Dromgoole’s production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story. Ellie Kendrick, a truly youthful Juliet, and Adetomiwa Edun, a boyish Romeo, head an excellent cast whose period costumes point to the timelessness of parental disapproval, adolescent temperament, rivalry and violence. Filmed before a live audience at Shakespeare’s Globe in the heart of London, its intimate and atmospheric setting adds immediacy and vitality to the humour and passion of Shakespeare’s verse. Filmed in High Definition and true surround sound.

Romeo and Juliet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2010