--- name: "Eric Kofi Abrefa" canonical: "https://film.one/person/eric-kofi-abrefa" fi1m_id: "eric-kofi-abrefa" imdb_id: "nm2256122" tmdb_id: 1184960 wikidata_id: "Q109289189" roles: ["Actor"] born: "15 September 1989" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 66 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-07T20:12:09.777286+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Eric Kofi Abrefa ## Identity Eric Kofi Abrefa - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eric-kofi-abrefa - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** eric-kofi-abrefa - **IMDb ID:** nm2256122 - **TMDB ID:** 1184960 - **Wikidata ID:** Q109289189 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109289189, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2256122/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184960 Actor. Born 15 September 1989 in London, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 15 September 1989, London, England, UK - **Active:** 2014–present - **Also known as:** Eric Abrefa , Eric Kobi Abrefa, Eric Kofi-Abrefa - **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 62 (2), 2020s 74 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 66 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, Science Fiction 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,522m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109289189, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2256122/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184960 ## Coming up - *The Animals* (2026-10-16), as John ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Supacell*](https://film.one/tv/supacell.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Eric Kofi Abrefa > Eric Kofi Abrefa plays big men who have been made small, and he plays the smallness without asking for pity. In *Supacell* it is the best thing on screen; the rest of the career has not yet given him a part that good. In *Supacell* (2024), Andre Simpson can lift a cash machine and cannot get a job interview. That is the whole part, and Eric Kofi Abrefa plays it in that order: the lifting costs him nothing, the interview costs him everything. He is a large man, and he spends most of Rapman's six episodes letting the world shrink him, a criminal record in front of him and a son behind him who has stopped expecting him to turn up. Rapman's series is best when nobody is using a power, and Abrefa is the clearest case. We minded more about whether Andre would get the job than about anything the conspiracy chasing the five of them did, because he never once plays the strength as a comfort. It is just one more thing he cannot use. The career before it was slow. He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and spent years in the background of other people's films: *Fury* (2014), *Snowden* (2016), *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* (2018), with recurring parts in *Humans* and, as Noah Webster, in *Harlots* (2017). The stage kept him honest in the meantime; the film of the National Theatre's *Julie* (2018), opposite Vanessa Kirby, has him singing and dancing in a two-hander, which is not what anyone casting a gang leader would guess. Then Rapman gave him Switcher in *Blue Story* (2019), and the parts got bigger. Lamar Silas in *BMF* (2021–) is the one most people name first, an American villain sustained over several seasons. *The One* (2021) and Jeymes Samuel's *The Book of Clarence* (2023), where he is Jedediah the Terrible, followed. The pattern is hard to miss. Switcher, Lamar, Andre: three men on the wrong side of the law, each played with a threat in the body and something sorer underneath. He is good at it, and the danger is obvious. The early years were background work, the strong performances sit in a handful of projects, and most of those have a record attached. Rapman is the director who has got the most out of him, twice now, and both times by letting him be a brother or a father first and a criminal second. Micheal Ward has shared the screen with him on both occasions, which is not a coincidence in a career built on one director's trust. Our review of *Supacell* said Andre was the character we would follow into a spin-off, and we stand by it. What we would rather see is a part with no past to carry, where the quiet has to come from somewhere else. Until someone writes it, Andre will do. ## Biography Eric Kofi Abrefa is a British actor. He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. He is known for roles including Company Messenger in *Fury* (2014), Helicopter Merc in *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* (2018), Danny in the series *Humans* (2015), NSA Tunnel Guard 1 in *Snowden* (2016), Lamar in *BMF* (2021) and Andre Simpson in *Supacell* (2024). He has also appeared in *Blue Story* (2019) as Switcher and *Treadstone* (2019) as Sebastian Blair. *Sources: tvmaze.com, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com, wikidata.org.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Supacell* (2024), Fi1m 74, as Andre Simpson — [page](https://film.one/tv/supacell.md) - *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* (2018), Fi1m 58, as Helicopter Merc — [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom.md) - *Fury* (2014), Fi1m 67, as Company Messenger — [page](https://film.one/film/fury-2014.md) ## Complete filmography (25) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Animals* (2026), as John - *Supacell* (2024), series, as Andre Simpson — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/supacell.md) - *The Book of Clarence* (2024), as Jedediah the Terrible - *White Widow* (2023), as Ben - *BMF* (2021), series, as Lamar - *Locked-In* (2021), Actor - *Blue Story* (2019), as Switcher - *Treadstone* (2019), series, as Sebastian Blair - *London Arabia* (2019), as Mr. President - *Hero: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life & Times of Mr. Ulric Cross* (2019), Actor - *National Theatre Live: Julie* (2018), as Jean - *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* (2018), as Helicopter Merc — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom.md) - *King Lear* (2018), as Officer (Dover Castle) - *Harlots* (2017), series, as Noah Webster - *Snowden* (2016), as NSA Tunnel Guard 1 - *I.T.* (2016), as Detective Kayden - *Shakespeare Lives: The Works* (2016), as Exeter - *Humans* (2015), series, as Danny — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/humans.md) - *Fury* (2014), as Company Messenger — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/fury-2014.md) - *National Theatre Live: A Taste of Honey* (2014), as Jimmie - *Halo: Nightfall* (2014), as Haisal - *Yonderland* (2013), series, as House Hunter - *Sherlock* (2010), series, as Policeman — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sherlock.md) - *Tight Jeans* (2008), as Marcus - *Shoot the Messenger* (2006), as Yannek ## Gallery - ![Eric Kofi-Abruefa at the premiere of Blue Story (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/1093793/gallery-c3fde7b31729.jpg) Eric Kofi-Abruefa at the premiere of Blue Story (2019) — UKGossip TV, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Eric_kofi_abrefa_2019_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Eric Kofi Abrefa](https://film.one/media/person/1093793/gallery-cd915841943a.jpg) Eric Kofi Abrefa — UKGossip TV, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Eric_kofi_abrefa_2019_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Eric Kofi Abrefa](https://film.one/media/person/1093793/gallery-03e7b33b1c43.jpg) Eric Kofi Abrefa — Image via TMDB - ![Eric Kofi Abrefa](https://film.one/media/person/1093793/gallery-4ec5e5a3bf94.jpg) Eric Kofi Abrefa — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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