---
name: "Toby Onwumere"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/toby-onwumere"
fi1m_id: "toby-onwumere"
imdb_id: "nm5255496"
tmdb_id: 1726859
wikidata_id: "Q28203864"
roles: []
born: "1 February 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T02:32:05.290785+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."
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# Toby Onwumere

## Identity

Toby Onwumere

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/toby-onwumere
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** toby-onwumere
- **IMDb ID:** nm5255496
- **TMDB ID:** 1726859
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28203864
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Onwumere, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28203864, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5255496/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1726859

Actor. Born 1 February 1990 in Nigeria.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 February 1990, Nigeria
- **Also known as:** توبي أُنومير
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Onwumere, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28203864, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5255496/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1726859

## 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.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021), Fi1m 66, as Sequoia — [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-resurrections.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *The Light* (2025), as Karim
- *The Instigators* (2024), as John Wayne
- *A Good Person* (2023), as Jesse
- *Been So Good* (2022), as Darren
- *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021), as Sequoia — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-resurrections.md)
- *Thorp* (2020), as Oge
- *Sense8* (2015), series, as Capheus Onyango
- *Empire* (2015), series, as Kai

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