It would be easy to take a cynical view about David Harewood being made the honorary president of Rada. Not because this Rada alumnus clearly has a useful amount of celebrity to bestow on the most venerable drama school in the country (after all, Sir Kenneth Branagh, leaving the role, is as bankable a name as it comes).
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The work will be part of the estate’s Missing Portraits series, while the actor’s lineage traces back to people enslaved on Harewood property in the Caribbean