Actor Idris Elba wants greater diversity in TV roles
But the 43-year-old actor, whose big break came after he played drug lord Russell “Stringer” Bell in US series The Wire, added there is still more that can be done.
Elba — who, along with David Oyelowo, David Harewood, Lenny Henry and Meera Syal, has spoken out to ask UK networks to improve and increase their representation of ethnic minorities in the past — is one of the British stars who has managed to find work both in the UK and in the US, with roles in Hollywood films such as Thor, Prometheus, Avengers: Age Of Ultron and Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom.
