Babs Olusanmokun

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Babs Olusanmokun
Birth name:	Babatunde Olusanmokun
Date of birth:	18 September 1984
Place of birth:	Lagos, Nigeria
Roles:	Actor
Character(s):	Joseph M'Benga

Babs Olusanmokun (born 18 September 1984; age 40) is a Nigerian-American actor who plays Joseph M'Benga in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Olusanmokun has appeared in various film and television roles since 2004. Among his early television roles are guest spots in four episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2006, 2009, and 2010. He also appeared in episodes of The Unit and Veronica Mars (2007), the US version of Life on Mars (with a cameo by Whoopi Goldberg), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008, with Donna Murphy), Blue Bloods and NYC 22 (2012, with Sonequa Martin-Green).

He continued his television work with appearances on Copper (2013), Unforgettable and The Blacklist (2014) and Gotham in 2015, before playing Omoro Kinte in the 2016 remake of the mini-series Roots, appearing in an episode with Dominic Burgess. The same year he also appeared in an episode of another mini-series, The Night Of.

2017 saw him in a recurring role on The Defenders, and 2018 in three episodes of Sneaky Pete, and an episode of Black Mirror. In 2019, he performed recurring roles in The Widow and the mini-series Too Old to Die Young. In addition to Strange New Worlds, in 2021 he appeared in the British mini-series The Drowning Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024).

He also voiced characters in the video games Max Payne 3 (2012) and Red Dead Redemption (2018).

Star Trek appearances

• SNW:
  • "Strange New Worlds"
  • "Ghosts of Illyria"
  • "Memento Mori"
  • "Spock Amok"
  • "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"
  • "The Serene Squall"
  • "The Elysian Kingdom"
  • "All Those Who Wander"
  • "A Quality of Mercy"
  • "The Broken Circle"
  • "Ad Astra per Aspera"
  • "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
  • "Among the Lotus Eaters"
  • "Charades"
  • "Lost in Translation"
  • "Those Old Scientists"
  • "Under the Cloak of War"
  • "Subspace Rhapsody"
  • "Hegemony"

External links

• Babs Olusanmokun at Wikipedia
• Babs Olusanmokun at the Internet Movie Database