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|February 19, 2022
Jimmy Akingbola takes on the role of one of TV's most famous butlers
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Bel-Air
From Mon 21 Feb, Peacock on Sky
We've seen him as a dedicated cop in The Tower, an asylum-seeking doctor alongside Brenda Blethyn in Kate & Koji, and villain Baron Reiter in superhero drama Arrow.
Now, British actor Jimmy Akingbola is on our screens in US drama Bel-Air, the gritty reboot of 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with episode four available on Peacock on Sky this week.
The 43-year-old stars as Geoffrey Thompson, the English ‘house manager' for the wealthy Banks family, who take troubled nephew Will (Jabari Banks) under their wing in a mansion in LA when he has to leave Philadelphia.
This story is from the February 19, 2022 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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