Cornelius Macarthy

Cornelius Macarthy is a British actor and singer. He was born in Croydon, South London to an executive secretary mother and an economist father of Sierra Leone Creole descent. At the age of 5, he moved to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he spent the next 14 years living between a fruit farm owned by his great, great uncle, Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, and with his mother's family in The Gambia and Zimbabwe. Macarthy returned to London and began his professional career as a singer with the London Community Gospel Choir. He toured with the group and worked as a session singer for artists such as Blur, Madonna, and Westlife.