Biography
Toby Onwumere is a Nigerian-American actor. Born on 1 February 1990 in Nigeria and raised in Mansfield, Texas, he earned a BFA from the University of Evansville and an MFA in acting from the University of California, San Diego in 2015.
He is known for replacing Aml Ameen as Capheus Onyango in the second season of the Netflix series Sense8 (2016–2018). Other television credits include Kai in Empire (2018–2019). Film roles include Sequoia in The Matrix Resurrections (2021), Jesse in A Good Person (2023) and John Wayne in The Instigators (2024). He has also performed on stage with Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
