Daniel Kaluuya: 8 Great Performances Other Than Get OutMore

More times than not, when someone hears the name Daniel Kaluuya or sees his face, they probably think back to his career-defining performance in Jordan Peele's 2017 satirical dark comedy Get Out. And while his performance as Chris Washington in the Academy Award-winning horror flick will go down as one of the best in the 2010s, there quite a few Daniel Kaluuya movies (and shows) that shouldn't be missed. From his days in staples of modern British television like Doctor Who, Skins, and Black Mirror, to his truly despicable performance as a Chicago gang leader in Widows, Daniel Kaluuya often steals every scene he's in, even when he's relegated to the hurt and vengeful friend-turned-enemy in Black Panther. Below are just eight of those performances that display the full range and talent of Daniel Kaluuya.

Black Panther (W'Kabi) Admittedly, whenever I think about Black Panther, my mind immediately goes to the late Chadwick Boseman and his take on T'Calla, aka Black Panther, or Michael B. Jordan's Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, but buried between those two performances is one that's just as great — Daniel Kaluuya's W'Kabi. Watching T'Challa's best friend and second-in-command take a path to darkness and self-righteousness as he turns on the King of Wakanda in favor of Killmonger and extratorrent provides one of the most emotional beats of the Marvel superhero movie and it's hard to think of someone who could bring as much pain to that role than Kaluuya with those eyes full of pain.

Widows (Jatemme Manning) In Get Out Daniel Kaluuya has this boyish and innocent charm to him, but his character, Jatemme Manning, in Steve McQueen's Widows is anything but. The cold-blooded and oddly intimidating enforcer in his brother's Chicago gang, Kaluuya's Manning is by far the most ruthless and unsettling character in the 2018 heist film. There's a scene where Manning confronts two gang members after they let a band of thieves steal $2 million. Manning forces the two men to rap in an empty gymnasium and acts like he's enjoying the show until he pulls out his pistol and shoots one point-blank in the head while shooting the other in the back as he tries to escape. At that moment, we realize that Daniel Kaluuya is on a whole other level.