Cyril Nri

Acting

Cyril Nri

Born 1961-04-25 · Nigeria

Acting credits

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker poster
6.3

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2019

Roald Dahl's The Witches poster
6.3

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

Roald Dahl's The Witches

2020

Wicked Little Letters poster
6.9

When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.

Wicked Little Letters

2024

Backdraft 2 poster
6.4

Years after the original Backdraft, Sean, son of the late Steve "Bull" McCaffrey, is assigned to investigate a deadly fire only to realize it is something much more sinister.

Backdraft 2

2019

Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy poster
4.7

Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.

Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy

1998

Every Time I See A Yellow Car poster
NR

Olly, a man haunted by a childhood tragedy and a recent assault, and his older brother Liam, who desperately attempts to protect Olly, find themselves in a spiral of revenge and chaos. Whilst their seemingly clashing personalities should make them anything but friends, the pair both aim to break a cycle of trauma, but in contradictory ways.

Every Time I See A Yellow Car

2026

Long Time Dead poster
5.2

A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.

Long Time Dead

2002

Only Love poster
5.5

Two young lovers whose romantic dreams were shattered, are reunited years later in this sweeping story of fobidden love.

Only Love

1998

Rasta Man Vibrations poster
NR

A respected Doctor studying a very rare speech disorder is surprised by a series of patients in a week.

Rasta Man Vibrations

2018

Deadmeat poster
NR

Ex-con Clarkie is betrayed by his best friend, he has no one to turn to as he tracks down his brother's killers. The war spills onto London's mean streets. If Clarkie makes one false move he is...DEADMEAT.

Deadmeat

2007

Down The Length poster
NR

Lost in a hole of complex grief, a once promising young painter attempts to meet a looming gallery deadline by recording his increasingly disturbing dreams.

Down The Length

Father's Day poster
5.5

Joe wants out but the Don won't take no for an answer. Carl lays a plan to use Alison as the bait. Will it work, or will Joe walk away?

Father's Day

2013

The Gay Collection | Volume I | Presented by Shortz! poster
NR

Experience a captivating collection of five award-winning gay short films, each celebrated for their brilliance, artistry, and storytelling. These exceptional works represent the very best in gay cinema.

The Gay Collection | Volume I | Presented by Shortz!

2025

Jellyfish poster
7.6

In Margate, England, life is not easy for teenager Sarah Taylor, between being bullied at school, being exploited by a dominant boss and having to take care of her depressive mother and her two siblings. But Sarah finds a way to channel her growing despair and fight adversity when her drama teacher gives her a new purpose.

Jellyfish

2019

The Steal poster
5.9

A young American computer hackeress is hired by a liberal British lawyer to right the wrong done to a third world country by a London investment company. Even the expertise of her building inspector sidekick can not prevent a surprising development though.

The Steal

1995

The Act poster
6.4

In 1965 - the eve of decriminalization for acts of male homosexuality in the U.K. - Matthews, a young gay man at odds with the world, discovers love, sex, and a new family in the backstreets and underground bars of Soho.

The Act

2020

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me poster
10.0

imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors and bigger ambitions.

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

2023

Critical Eye poster
NR

Miserable critic, Brian Tanner, is famous for his vicious film reviews on his TV show Critical Eye. Over the years, he's grown to hate pretty much everything he sees, including his wife.

Critical Eye

2010

Julius Caesar poster
5.0

Film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2012 production of Shakespeare's fast-moving thriller. A vivid story about a struggle for democracy, Julius Caesar is also a love story between two men united by an explosive act of political violence. The setting is a modern African state in which the tyrant Caesar is about to seize power. Cassius persuades Brutus to join the conspirators plotting an assassination. Featuring a distinguished cast of black actors, the film is shot on location and in the RSC's theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon

Julius Caesar

2012

National Theatre Live: Barber Shop Chronicles poster
7.6

For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Follow along as we leap from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day.

National Theatre Live: Barber Shop Chronicles

2018

RSC Live: Hamlet poster
8.2

Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Hamlet played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until throughout summer 2016.

RSC Live: Hamlet

2016

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NR

From early rehearsals to the final performance, this in-depth exploration provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the RSC reimagined a Shakespearean classic for modern audiences. As Gregory Doran's directorial vision unfolds, traditional African dance is seamlessly integrated into Caesar's triumphant entrance and Mark Antony's funeral speech, while the set designers create a palpable atmosphere of dictatorship and unrest. Cyril Nri (Cassius) discusses how the cast draws on African leadership archetypes to infuse the narrative with cultural relevance, and Paterson Joseph (Brutus) reflects on his character's internal conflict, highlighting how it mirrors the difficult choices faced by contemporary revolutionaries. The documentary intersperses live performances with audience reactions, highlighting the powerful resonance of the adaptation.

The Making of Julius Caesar: Royal Shakespeare Company

2012

Off the Page: PPE poster
NR

The public struggle to keep in step with politicians during the fallout of the financial crisis. David Annen, Cyril Nri, and Eileen Walsh star in PPE, a 'microplay' about the power of physical gestures. PPE was written by Tim Price, directed by Hamish Pirie and choreographed by Ann Yee, after a conversation with Aditya Chakrabortty. It is the latest in a series of collaborations between the Royal Court and the Guardian.

Off the Page: PPE

2014

Bad Day poster
5.1

Rebecca Ryan has been working as an undercover agent for the Organised Crime Division (OCD) posing as a taxi driver, while investigating London's south-side mob. When she finds her young daughter Lynn brutally murdered she fears her cover has been blown wide open, so she turns renegade and begins a brutal campaign of vengeance against the mob she believes killed her daughter. As she trawls the seedy depths of London's underworld hunting down her daughter's killers, the lines between good and evil, right and wrong begin to blur as do her notions of justice and revenge. It falls to the world-weary OCD agent Darius Cuise and his newly-assigned, hot-tempered partner Abby Barrett to track down Rebecca and bring her in before all hell breaks loose.

Bad Day

2008