Idris Elba

Idrissa Akuna "Idris" Elba (born September 6, 1972) is an English film, television, and theatre actor, singer, and rapper who is best known for his role as Russell "Stringer" Bell on the HBO crime drama series, The Wire, from 2002 to 2004, and currently stars as John Luther on the BBC psychological crime drama series, Luther, since 2010.

He played Heimdall in the 2013 Marvel action film, Thor: The Dark World, and reprised his role in the 2015 film, Avengers: Age of Ultron. He has also played Stacker Pentecost in the 2013 monster film, Pacific Rim. He will also voice Shere Khan in the upcoming 2016 live-action film adaptation of The Jungle Book, he will voice Chief Bogo in the 2016 film, Zootopia, and TBA in the 2016 Pixar film, Finding Dory.

Trivia

 * Idris Elba is the only actor in Disney history that has the portfolio of directly contributing to most of Disney's feature film divisions as he has voiced a character for Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Live-Action, Pixar and Marvel.
 * All of the Disney movies that Idris Elba is featured in for Disney's 2016 cinematic release slate are all roles of talking animals.