Arnold Oceng

He was born on 30 November 1985 to a South Sudanese father and a Ugandan mother.^[3] In 1986 when he was one year of age, his family moved to Brixton, South London as refugees.^[1]

He started acting at the age of 6 as a child artist.^[4] In school, he played as 'King Herod' in the play at the Corpus Christi Roman Catholic primary school on Brixton Hill.^[2]

In 1999, he made his acting debut as a child artist with the role 'Calvin Braithwaite' in the 73 episodes of BBC children's television drama serial Grange Hill. The series was highly popular and Oceng continued in the show until 2004.^[5] Since then he acted in minor supportive roles in many television serials including, Casualty, The Bill and Sold. Oceng made his maiden cinema appearance in 2008 film Adulthood. He later followed with supportive roles in independent UK films, 4.3.2.1. and My Brother The Devil.^[1][2]

In 2014, he acted alongside Reese Witherspoon in the film The Good Lie, which became his first Hollywood role. In 2016, he made the role 'Charles' in the film A United Kingdom which had its premier in BFI London Film Festival. Then he starred in the Danish biopic The Greatest Man screened in 2016.^[1] In the same year, he joined the cast of film Brotherhood.^[2] In 2017, he was nominated for the Male Performance in Film award at Screen Nation Film and Television Awards which was held at the Park Plaza London Riverbank hotel on 7 May 2017.^[6] In the same year, he won the award for the Best Supporting Actor at National Film Awards UK for his role in Brotherhood.^[7]

• British Urban Film Festival
• List of African films of 2014