The star has been married three times. His first wife was Hanne “Kim” Norgaard, with whom he shares daughter Isan, from 1999 to 2003. He was also married to Sonya Nicole Hamlin for less than a year in 2006.

Or, if you’re Idris Elba, you spend a night in prison. Back in 2013, Idris Elba played Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, based on the memoir the South African leader wrote after spending nearly three decades in prison.

Banning the sale of zombie knives is a positive step, but schools need to intervene earlier to help tackle the UK's knife crime crisis, says Idris Elba. The actor, 52, has spent the last year making a documentary for the BBC about solutions to knife crime,

Idris and ex-girlfriend Naiyana Garth welcomed their son on 17 April 2014, with Idris sharing the happy news with a sweet black-and-white photo of their fingers intertwined. "My son, Winston Elba, was born yesterday. Truly amazing," he shared on social media.

Idris Elba's wife Sabrina Elba opened up about the pair's "good and bad days" and the rule they have in place when it comes to mixing marriage with their joint business

The murder of Ronan Kanda shocked the nation. Walking home minding his own business, Ronan's life was cruelly taken away by two other teenagers in a shocking case of mistaken identity

Idris Elba's wife Sabrina Elba had been dreaming of going to law school since she was a child, but this all changed when she met the actor back in 2017

A former young offender who has turned his life around after going to prison three times and is now mentoring young people is backing Idris Elba's calls to take drastic action to end knife crime now

HE’S best known as the Hollywood A-list actor behind gritty homicide detective Luther – who spent five series hunting down fictional sadistic killers in bloody scenes on BBC One.

One family affected by the violence is that of Ronan Kanda who was murdered two doors down from his home on June 29, 2022. His killers, Sukhman Shergill and Prabjeet Veadhesa, had mistaken him for another teenager who lived on the same road.

Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. “In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom, I spent the night in a prison cell on Robben Island,