Tunde Adebimpe

Acting

Tunde Adebimpe

Born 1975-02-25 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe (born February 25, 1975) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is best known as a founding member and co-lead vocalist of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio, with whom he has recorded five studio albums. In April 2025, Adebimpe released his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz. As an actor, Adebimpe has appeared in the films Twisters, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marriage Story and Rachel Getting Married, in addition to several independent feature films. He appeared in the 2024 science fiction television series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and provided voice acting on the animated series Strange Planet, Lazor Wolf, Pantheon, and Tuca & Bertie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tunde Adebimpe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Spider-Man: Homecoming poster
7.3

Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

2017

Twisters poster
6.8

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

Twisters

2024

Marriage Story poster
7.7

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Marriage Story

2019

Rachel Getting Married poster
6.3

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

Rachel Getting Married

2008

She Dies Tomorrow poster
5.1

Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.

She Dies Tomorrow

2020

Nasty Baby poster
5.2

A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a big nuisance.

Nasty Baby

2015

No More Time poster
2.0

A couple seeks refuge in a remote mountain town to escape a mysterious viral disease that makes people disappear or turn into murderers. As messengers emerge from the forest, the couple must decide who to trust and what to do to survive.

No More Time

2022

Other Music poster
6.7

A documentary highlighting the 20 year history of influential indie record store Other Music in Manhattan's East Village.

Other Music

2019

The Postal Service Zoom Auditions poster
NR

Watch The Postal Service hold Zoom ‘auditions’ for new bandmembers including Slash, Anne Hathaway and “Weird Al” Yankovic.

The Postal Service Zoom Auditions

2020

Ultrasound poster
5.4

After his car breaks down, Glen spends one hell of an odd night with a married couple, setting into motion a chain of events that alter their lives plus those of several random strangers.

Ultrasound

2022

Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock poster
6.8

A reckless joyride into the darkest corners of popular music that delves deep into the mind of Mick Rock, the genius photographer who immortalized the seventies and the rise to rock stardom of many legendary musicians.

Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock

2017

Jump Tomorrow poster
6.3

When shy, straitlaced George meets vivacious, adorable Alicia, he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard, a lovesick, voluble Frenchman who overcomes George's sense of propriety and takes him on a meandering road trip to amour.

Jump Tomorrow

2001

The Heart poster
NR

A lonely man grieves the death of his mother after an argument about groceries and an odd request in her will.

The Heart

2023

7 Chinese Brothers poster
5.3

Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?

7 Chinese Brothers

2015

Meet Me in the Bathroom poster
5.4

Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.

Meet Me in the Bathroom

2022

No artwork available
5.0

On the day before leaving New York for graduate school in a Iowa, a writer's plan to spend a romantic day at Rockaway Beach with a woman he's secretly dating is disrupted by an oddball surfer.

The Sun Thief

2013

Cap poster
9.0

A hardworking teenager learns the harsh price of being cool when he dons a coveted status symbol in his L.A. high school. Medina Senghore, Tunde Adebimpe, Dusan Brown, Ellie Grace Siler and Aaron Joseph star in this short film. Written and directed by Marshall Tyler.

Cap

2019

I Dreamed of Seeing Myself poster
NR

A dream dance of celestial stars illuminate the mystery of a primordial African odyssey. Yrsa Daley Ward breathes life into this otherworldly journey, guided by the soulful resonance of Tunde Adebimpe's voice and poetry written by Jamal Ademola. I Dreamed of Seeing Myself beckons viewers to transcend the constraints of Black trauma and modern white supremacy, persuading them to ponder the lyrical depths of Blackness as the cosmic human beginning.

I Dreamed of Seeing Myself

2024

Night Shift poster
NR

Ollie Jeffries is an on-again, off-again actor. His long term gig as a bathroom attendant on this one night, forces Ollie to face a reality he’s not yet ready to embrace.

Night Shift

2017

The Sleeping Negro poster
3.0

Confronted with a series of racially charged incidents, a young black man must overcome rage, alienation, and hopelessness in order to find his own humanity.

The Sleeping Negro

2021

Minor/Major: The TV on the Radio Tour Documentary poster
NR

This documentary is a portrait of the band, TV on the Radio as they transition from indie darlings to a major label success. We watch as they struggle to come to terms with the business side of the music business while trying to maintain artistic integrity. Also, there are songs.

Minor/Major: The TV on the Radio Tour Documentary

2011

Nine Types of Light poster
NR

Brooklyn's indie favorites TV on the Radio just released a film set to the music of their acclaimed 2011 album, Nine Types of Light. The movie, which runs for just more than an hour, includes music videos for each song on the album and is supposed to represent a visual interpretation of the record. Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe not only directed the Nine Types of Light film, but also storybooked it and helmed the video for "Forgotten." Additionally, the rest of the band worked with friends and filmmakers to help conceptualize and direct the rest of the music videos.

Nine Types of Light

2011

Jorge poster
6.5

A lovelorn man is entranced by a beautiful girl who takes a ladybug from his neck.

Jorge

1998

No artwork available
9.0

Stuart Hornsley discovers a way to travel through time. His mission: to right what was wrong with his true love at the one moment where he can change his destiny.

The First Three Lives of Stuart Hornsley

2004

Behind the camera