Daniel Kaluuya with his Best Supporting Actor Oscar Credit: Getty Daniel Kaluuya, the Camden-born son of Ugandan immigrants who, at the age of 32, won his first Oscar for his role as Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in political thriller Judas and the Black Messiah, got his first big break while taking a nap. It happened one Wednesday afternoon in 2007 in the writer’s room of Skins, the warts-and-all cult E4 show about a bunch of Bristol sixth-formers drinking, sleeping together, and generally dealing with the kinds of issues faced by real teens. That realism was the result of the show’s genuinely youth-led creative process – it was important to creator Bryan Elsley that the stories, not just the actors, reflected authentic experiences. He and his team trawled London’s youth theatre groups and assembled a bunch of teenagers to come in once and week and advise on the scripts. Among them, plucked from a Hampstead Theatre after-school club, was 17-year-old Daniel Kaluuya.