---
name: "Winston Duke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/winston-duke"
fi1m_id: "winston-duke"
imdb_id: "nm6328300"
tmdb_id: 1447932
wikidata_id: "Q27045579"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 November 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-25T04:14:46.492962+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."
---

# Winston Duke

## Identity

Winston Duke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/winston-duke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** winston-duke
- **IMDb ID:** nm6328300
- **TMDB ID:** 1447932
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27045579
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Duke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27045579, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6328300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447932

Actor. Born 15 November 1986 in Argyle, Trinidad and Tobago.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 November 1986, Argyle, Trinidad and Tobago
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Also known as:** 윈스턴 듀크, Вінстон Дюк, วินสตัน ดุ๊ค, 溫斯頓·杜克, وینستون دوک
- **Frequently works with:** [Lupita Nyong'o](https://film.one/person/lupita-nyongo.md), [Danai Gurira](https://film.one/person/danai-gurira.md), [Joe Robert Cole](https://film.one/person/joe-robert-cole.md), [Kevin Feige](https://film.one/person/kevin-feige.md), [Ryan Coogler](https://film.one/person/ryan-coogler.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as actor, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (4), 2020s 69 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 77 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 5, Adventure 4, Science Fiction 4, Comedy 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 15 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $7,498m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Duke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27045579, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6328300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447932

## Coming up

- *Avengers: Doomsday* (2026-12-16), as M'Baku — [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-doomsday.md)
- *Black Panther 3* (2028-12-13), as M'Baku

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Black Panther*](https://film.one/film/black-panther.md) (80), [*Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*](https://film.one/film/black-panther-wakanda-forever.md) (66)
- **HBO Max:** [*Us*](https://film.one/film/us.md) (78)

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

## Fi1m on Winston Duke

> Winston Duke makes imposing men approachable through humour that never sounds as though he is asking for a laugh. We rate his easy company, especially in *Us*, and would welcome more parts that give him comparable room.

Winston Duke plants his feet apart and opens his arms, looking as though he expects to be listened to. Then comes the joke. His size makes authority easy to suggest, but his timing keeps that authority from becoming forbidding. We like him most when the humour gives us a reason to care about the man. In *Us* (2019), that means letting a father be amusing company before asking us to fear for his family.

*Black Panther* (2018) made M'Baku his breakthrough role, allowing authority and irreverence to sit comfortably together. The lead role of Will in the metaphysical drama *Nine Days* (2021) offered a move beyond supporting work. He returned as M'Baku in *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever* (2022), again supplying humour within an ensemble. The risk is that films settle for his size and a few good lines when he has already shown how useful he can be to the people around him.

As Gabe Wilson in Jordan Peele's film, opposite Lupita Nyong'o, Duke is funny enough to make the family worth spending time with before their predicament takes over. We laughed, then went straight back to worrying about them, because his ease makes the danger feel like an interruption to lives we recognise. Editor Nicholas Monsour keeps the shifts from comedy to danger clear even when they are abrupt. Michael Abels's score maintains the unease beneath the jokes, and Duke's performance benefits from both decisions. The film's explanations are less persuasive, but the family gives us a reason to stay with it.

In David Leitch's *The Fall Guy* (2024), his stunt coordinator Dan Tucker sounds as though he has heard every observation about film-making before. Duke delivers the good lines without pressing us to notice that they are the good lines. The film is worth an evening for its company, though the needlessly complicated mystery keeps that company occupied for too long. He cannot fix the plot, and we would not recommend choosing it for him alone. For Duke with more to do, start with *Us*, provided the household is willing to be frightened.

## Biography

Winston Duke is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian actor. He was born on 15 November 1986 in Argyle, Tobago, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, at the age of nine. He holds a BA from the University at Buffalo and an MFA from Yale University.

Duke began his career in theatre and with recurring television roles in *Person of Interest* (2014–2015) and *Modern Family* (2016). He gained prominence as M'Baku in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films *Black Panther* (2018), *Avengers: Infinity War* (2018), *Avengers: Endgame* (2019) and *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever* (2022). Other credits include *Us* (2019), *Spenser Confidential* (2020) and *The Fall Guy* (2024), in which he played Dan Tucker. He became a naturalised citizen of Rwanda in 2023.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

- *The Fall Guy* (2024), Fi1m 72, as Dan Tucker — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fall-guy.md)
- *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever* (2022), Fi1m 66, as M'Baku — [page](https://film.one/film/black-panther-wakanda-forever.md)
- *Avengers: Endgame* (2019), Fi1m 79, as M'Baku — [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-endgame.md)
- *Us* (2019), Fi1m 78, as Gabe Wilson / Abraham — [page](https://film.one/film/us.md)
- *Avengers: Infinity War* (2018), Fi1m 77, as M'Baku — [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-infinity-war.md)
- *Black Panther* (2018), Fi1m 80, as M'Baku — [page](https://film.one/film/black-panther.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *Black Panther 3* (2028), as M'Baku
- *Avengers: Doomsday* (2026), as M'Baku — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-doomsday.md)
- *The Fall Guy* (2024), as Dan Tucker — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fall-guy.md)
- *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever* (2022), as M'Baku — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/black-panther-wakanda-forever.md)
- *Nine Days* (2021), as Will · Executive Producer
- *INVINCIBLE* (2021), series, as Space Racer (voice) — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md)
- *Spenser Confidential* (2020), as Hawk
- *Avengers: Endgame* (2019), as M'Baku — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-endgame.md)
- *Us* (2019), as Gabe Wilson / Abraham — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/us.md)
- *Avengers: Infinity War* (2018), as M'Baku — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-infinity-war.md)
- *Black Panther* (2018), as M'Baku — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/black-panther.md)
- *Person of Interest* (2011), series, as Dominic, Mini — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/person-of-interest.md)
- *Modern Family* (2009), series, as Dwight — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md)
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Cedric Jones
- *Spenser Confidential 2*, as Hawk
- *Slime*, as (voice)
- *Heroine*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Winston Duke](https://film.one/media/person/11616/gallery-2e9b08760f10.jpg) Winston Duke — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Winston_Duke_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Winston_Duke_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![1 (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/11616/gallery-855274b3adcf.jpg) 1 (2019) — Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/SXSW_2019_1_-_Winston_Duke_%2833459260728%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![5 (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/11616/gallery-00c9ffee2ce5.jpg) 5 (2019) — Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/SXSW_2019_5_%2833459259268%29.jpg/1280px-SXSW_2019_5_%2833459259268%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Winston Duke](https://film.one/media/person/11616/gallery-c608e33e508c.jpg) Winston Duke — Image via TMDB
- ![Winston Duke](https://film.one/media/person/11616/gallery-afb5a82d0cde.jpg) Winston Duke — Image via TMDB

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