David Harewood
David Harewood, who turned sixty this week, returns as Othello for the third time on stage. It’s a role he first took on in 1997, becoming the first black actor to play the part at London’s National Theatre.
Growing up in multicultural Birmingham in the sixties and seventies, he was born to immigrants from Barbados.
Described as gregarious by his teachers at school, Harewood showed an interest in entertaining from an early age and subsequently trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts.
In his early twenties, he had a psychotic breakdown, something he spoke about in a…
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