---
name: "Kwesi Boakye"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kwesi-boakye"
fi1m_id: "kwesi-boakye"
imdb_id: "nm2173078"
tmdb_id: 205486
wikidata_id: "Q6450343"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 April 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T02:20:53.522206+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."
---

# Kwesi Boakye

## Identity

Kwesi Boakye

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kwesi-boakye
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kwesi-boakye
- **IMDb ID:** nm2173078
- **TMDB ID:** 205486
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6450343
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwesi_Boakye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6450343, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2173078/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/205486

Actor. Born 6 April 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 April 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye, Kwesi N. Boakye
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwesi_Boakye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6450343, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2173078/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/205486

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Amazing World of Gumball*](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md) (82)

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## Biography

Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye is an American actor. He was born on 6 April 1999 in Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest of three brothers who are also actors; the others are Kwame Boateng and Kofi Siriboe. His family is originally from Ghana.

Boakye began his acting career at the age of six. He is best known for providing the original voice of Darwin Watterson on the Cartoon Network animated series *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011–2014). He also voiced Gossamer on *The Looney Tunes Show* and played Manny in the 2009 film *I Can Do Bad All By Myself*.

His other credits include appearances in *Flight* (2012), *Community* (2009), *The Mentalist* (2008), *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), *The Shield* (2002) and *Colony* (2016).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011), Fi1m 82, as Darwin Watterson (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Gumball Chronicles* (2020), series, as Darwin Watterson (voice) (archival footage)
- *Tazmanian Devil* (2020), as Ike E'Kong · Associate Producer
- *Pocket Listing* (2016), as Billy
- *Colony* (2016), series, as Emmett
- *The Adventures Of Gumball* (2012), as Darwin Watterson (voice)
- *Unconditional* (2012), as Macon
- *Flight* (2012), as Young Will (voice)
- *Touch* (2012), series, as Farai
- *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011), series, as Darwin Watterson (voice) · Thanks — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md)
- *The Looney Tunes Show* (2011), series, as Gossamer (voice)
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, as Kevin — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)
- *Men of a Certain Age* (2009), series, as Jamie Thoreau
- *Community* (2009), series, as Elijah Bennett — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/community.md)
- *I Can Do Bad All By Myself* (2009), as Manny
- *40* (2009), as Young Godwill
- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, as Anthony Rome — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)
- *If I Had Known I Was a Genius* (2007), as Little Boy
- *Happy Feet* (2006), as Additional Voices (voice)
- *Day Break* (2006), series, as James Mathis
- *Inconceivable* (2005), series, as Kid
- *Boston Legal* (2004), series, as Turnip — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/boston-legal.md)
- *The Shield* (2002), series, as Wendell — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-shield.md)
- *Strong Medicine* (2000), series, as Lavonne

## Gallery

- ![Kwesi Boakye](https://film.one/media/person/1777317/gallery-047ad697cb62.jpg) Kwesi Boakye — Lex 24/7!, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Kwesi_Boakye_at_Hub_Network_Halloween_Bash_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kwesi Boakye](https://film.one/media/person/1777317/gallery-70e1330e67ab.jpg) Kwesi Boakye — Image via TMDB

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