Emerging from the Black Theatre movement, he first appeared as Spark in the 1980 film Babylon, a drama about Jamaican life in Brixton, and earned the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor for his stage work in Where Is the Darkness. Early TV work included the comedy-drama Prospects (1986) and the miniseries Thin Air (1988); the early 1990s saw him lead the serial Blood Rights as j…
