---
name: "Nnamdi Asomugha"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nnamdi-asomugha"
fi1m_id: "nnamdi-asomugha"
imdb_id: "nm3060479"
tmdb_id: 213058
wikidata_id: "Q1452192"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 July 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T04:24:52.994269+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."
---

# Nnamdi Asomugha

## Identity

Nnamdi Asomugha

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nnamdi-asomugha
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nnamdi-asomugha
- **IMDb ID:** nm3060479
- **TMDB ID:** 213058
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1452192
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnamdi_Asomugha, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452192, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3060479/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213058

Actor. Born 6 July 1981 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 July 1981, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 72 (1), 2020s 73 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnamdi_Asomugha, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452192, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3060479/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213058

## Coming up

- *The Body* (2026-11-11), as Father Franklin — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-body.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Good Nurse*](https://film.one/film/the-good-nurse.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Nnamdi Asomugha is an American actor, producer, writer and director. Born on 6 July 1981 in Lafayette, Louisiana, he played professional American football as a cornerback, primarily for the Oakland Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles, before retiring in 2013.

He began acting during his football career, with an early role in the series *Friday Night Lights* (2006). His film credits include *Fire with Fire* (2012), *Hello, My Name Is Doris* (2015), *Crown Heights* (2017), *Sylvie's Love* (2020) and *The Good Nurse* (2022), in which he played Danny Baldwin. He has produced films including *Beasts of No Nation* (2015), *Harriet* (2019) and *The Banker* (2020), and wrote, directed, produced and starred in *The Knife* (2024). He is due to appear as Father Franklin in the series *The Body* (2026).

Asomugha is married to actress Kerry Washington.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Good Nurse* (2022), Fi1m 73, as Danny Baldwin — [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-nurse.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Beasts of No Nation* (2015), Fi1m 72, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/beasts-of-no-nation.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *The Body* (2026), series, as Father Franklin — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-body.md)
- *The Knife* (2025), as Chris · Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Good Nurse* (2022), as Danny Baldwin — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-nurse.md)
- *A Soldier's Play* (2021), as Private First Class Melvin Peterson
- *The Banker* (2020), Producer
- *Sylvie's Love* (2020), as Robert · Producer
- *Harriet* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Crown Heights* (2017), as Carl King · Producer
- *Halfway* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Hello, My Name Is Doris* (2015), as Shaka
- *Beasts of No Nation* (2015), Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/beasts-of-no-nation.md)
- *Fire with Fire* (2012), as Sherrod
- *Friday Night Lights* (2006), series, as Ken Shaw — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md)
- *The Savant*, series, as Charlie Goodwin
- *2034*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Nnamdi Asomugha](https://film.one/media/person/96530/gallery-e66c16cfe948.jpg) Nnamdi Asomugha — Frank Osemeka, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Mr_Nnamdi_Asomugha.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Nnamdi Asomugha](https://film.one/media/person/96530/gallery-b01210b85566.jpg) Nnamdi Asomugha — Image via TMDB

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