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John Boyega Wins Best Supporting Actor At The Golden Globes

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Nigerian UK Actor John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega, known professionally as John Boyega, has won his first Golden Globe for best performance by an actor in a television supporting role for his work in Steve McQueen's acclaimed anthology series "Small Axe".

The "Star Wars" actor, who made headlines last June for his moving speech at the Black Lives Matter protest at the UK's Hyde Park in the wake of George Floyd's killing in the US, played Leroy Logan in the 'Red, White and Blue' segment of the series, about the ordeal of a young black Londoner set on helping to break the colour barrier at London's Metropolitan Police Force in the early 1980s.

According to Boyega, he was shocked and wasn't expecting to win "I'm so shocked; I thought it was gonna be one of them nights where...you go to your bed and just chill; I've got Balenciagas, guys. I've got tracking bottoms on my bottoms that I'm comfortable (in), but this is exciting. " The 28-year old thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the body that conducts the Golden Globes currently facing fire over its lack of Black representation among its ranks. The actor's fellow nominees were Dan Levy ("Schitt's Creek"), Brendan Gleeson ("The Comey Rule"), Jim Parsons ("Hollywood") and Donald Sutherland ("The Undoing").

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