His Dark Materials. He's now starring in AMC's riveting crime drama series Gangs of London as Ed Dumani, patriarch of a powerful criminal clan trying to plug the gap left by late kingpin Finn Wallace ( Colm Meaney). If you're enjoying Msamati's searing performance – and how could you not be? – here are 10 things you might not know about this highly accomplished actor. 1. He was born in London to Tanzanian parents, then grew up mainly in Zimbabwe. Msamati was eight when his parents — a nurse and a doctor — moved from Tanzania to Zimbabwe, which was then a newly established nation. "Zimbabwe was the boomtown of Africa in the Eighties and they wanted Black African expatriates to come in and move this nation, which was the spearhead of the front line states against apartheid South Africa," he told The Times of London. "It was a very big thing to go, 'Look at this progressive Black African nation.'"