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Olugbenga Enitan Temitope Akinnagbe ( , ; born December 12, 1978) is a Nigerian American actor and writer, best known for his roles as Chris Partlow on the HBO series The Wire and as Larry Brown on the HBO series The Deuce.
In 2007, Akinnagbe appeared in the film The Savages with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney, and Philip Bosco. He appeared in the remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which was released by Sony in June 2009. Akinnagbe made a guest appearance on a episode entitled as Elijah Okello, a former Ugandan child soldier living in New York, facing deportation. Akinnagbe's former The Wire castmate Robert Wisdom also appeared in that episode as Father Theo Burdett. In 2010, in Seattle, Washington Akinnagbe starred in the world premiere play The Thin Place at The Intiman Theatre.
He was in the movie Lottery Ticket and appeared on The Good Wife as Pastor Isiah Easton. His former co-star from The Wire, Frankie Faison, portrayed his father on The Good Wife in several episodes. He also appeared as Kelly Slater, a nurse in the third season of the Showtime series Nurse Jackie.
He starred in leading roles in two independent films, as Jack in Home, directed by Jono Oliver, and as James in Big Words, directed by Neil Drumming. He appeared as a drug lord in the USA series Graceland and starred as Tom in The Following. He also starred as CIA Agent Erik Ritter in . In October 2016, he began shooting the feature film Starbright.
In March 2020, Akinnagbe was cast in The Old Man.
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Akinnagbe filed a criminal complaint alleging that journalist Lola Adesioye grabbed his buttocks on two occasions in 2020. Adesioye was arrested on May 26, 2021, jailed for 28 hours, and charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse, and harassment. Her attorney described Akinnagbe's allegations as "a blatant, brazen lie". In October 2021, the case was dismissed.
| 2005 | They're Made Out of Meat | Merlin | Short |
| 2007 | The Savages | Jimmy | |
| Man-Up | Q | Short | |
| 2009 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Wallace | |
| 2010 | Edge of Darkness | Darcy Jones | |
| Lottery Ticket | Lorenzo | ||
| 2011 | Red & Blue Marbles | Cabal | |
| 2012 | Overnight | TMJ | |
| Paranormal Abduction | Alex Chandler | ||
| 2013 | Big Words | James | |
| Home | Jack Hall | ||
| Sweet, Sweet Country | Ernesto | Short | |
| 2014 | Render to Caesar | Dipo | |
| Fort Bliss | Sgt. Butcher | ||
| Mall | Michel | ||
| Phantom Halo | Roman | ||
| 2015 | Knucklehead | Langston | |
| 2016 | Detour | Michael | |
| Agent Travis | |||
| 2017 | Crown Heights | Sampson | |
| Detroit | Aubrey Pollard Sr. | ||
| Mindhack | Sun Moon | ||
| Heart, Baby | George | ||
| 2018 | Egg | Wayne | |
| All the Devil's Men | Samuelson | ||
| 2019 | Goldie | Richard | |
| Rogers and Tilden | Marcus | Short | |
| DC Noir | Detective Mitch Brooks | ||
| The Sun Is Also a Star | Samuel Kingsley | ||
| 2020 | 16 Bars | Deacon | |
| Pitch Black Panacea | Carl (voice) | Short | |
| 2021 | Passing | Dave Freedland | |
| 2023 | Asphalt City | Verdis | |
| Fast Charlie | Beggar Mercado | ||
| 2024 | Rob Peace | Carl Robertson | |
| The Thicket | Eustace Howard | ||
| 2025 | A House of Dynamite | Major General Steven Kyle |
| 2004–08 | The Wire | Chris Partlow | Recurring cast (seasons 3–4), main cast (season 5) |
| 2005 | Barbershop | Yinka | Main cast |
| 2006 | Conviction | Gary Wade/Calvin | 2 episodes |
| 2007 | Numb3rs | Ben Ellis | Episode: "Contenders" |
| 2008 | Cold Case | Victor Nash '05/'08 | Episode: "Street Money" |
| 2009 | Fringe | Akim | Episode: "The No-Brainer" |
| Elijah Okello | Episode: "" | ||
| Dark Blue | Dante Rollings | Episode: "August" | |
| Maggie Hill | Elliot Springer | TV movie | |
| 2010–15 | The Good Wife | Pastor Isaiah Easton | Recurring cast (seasons 1–2, 5) |
| 2011 | Blue Bloods | Pierre | Episode: "All That Glitters" |
| Chase | John Macon | Episode: "The Man at the Altar" | |
| Brooklyn Shakara | Emeka Nwandu | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| A Gifted Man | Dr. Leo 'Bax' Baxter | 2 episodes | |
| 2011–12 | Nurse Jackie | Kelly Slater | Recurring cast (seasons 3–4) |
| 2012 | The Unknown | Vincent | Episode: "Life Sentence" |
| Damages | Walid Cooper | Recurring cast (season 5) | |
| Elementary | Jeremy Lopez | Episode: "The Leviathan" | |
| 2012–14 | Father Biobaku | 2 episodes | |
| 2013 | Graceland | Jeremiah Bello | Recurring cast (season 1) |
| The Funtime Gang | Inmate | TV movie | |
| 2014 | Erik Ritter | Main cast | |
| 2015 | The Following | Tom Reyes | Recurring cast (season 3) |
| 2015–16 | Limitless | Quentin Walker | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Madam Secretary | Chris Santumari | Episode: "Desperate Remedies" |
| 2017 | Mercy Street | Saga | Episode: "House of Bondage" |
| 2017–18 | The Deuce | Larry Brown | Main cast |
| 2020 | Evil | Lando Mutabazi | Episode: "Justice x 2" |
| 2021 | James Johnson | Episode: "Criminal Justice" | |
| Modern Love | Jordan | Episode: "The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy" | |
| 2021–23 | Mook | Recurring cast (season 2–3) | |
| 2022 | The Blacklist | Boukman Baptiste | Episode: "Boukman Baptiste (No. 164)" |
| 2022–24 | The Old Man | Julian Carson | Main cast |
| 2023 | Ron Samuel Jenkins | Recurring cast (season 3) | |
| 2024 | Genius | Earl Little | Episode: "Graduation" |
| 2001 | The Oedipus Plays | Soldier | |
| 2002 | Romeo and Juliet | Ensemble | |
| 2002 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Le Bret | |
| 2003 | Henry V | A French Messenger | |
| 2005 | The Controversy of Valladolid | A Black Servant | |
| 2006 | Modern Missionary | Zim | |
| 2007 | A View From 151st Street | Dwight | |
| 2008 | Lower Ninth | Lowboy | |
| 2010 | A Thin Place | Isaac | |
| 2013 | The Rainmaker | Bill Starbuck | |
| 2015 | Fulfillment | Michael | |
| 2018 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Tom Robinson |
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