The BBC film sees Elba meet prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, who said that his party would commit to halving knife crime if elected, and the King, where the pair discussed solutions to the problem with some of the young people most affected by youth violence.

Or, if you’re Idris Elba, you spend a night in prison. Back in 2013, Idris Elba played Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, based on the memoir the South African leader wrote after spending nearly three decades in prison.

Banning the sale of zombie knives is a positive step, but schools need to intervene earlier to help tackle the UK's knife crime crisis, says Idris Elba. The actor, 52, has spent the last year making a documentary for the BBC about solutions to knife crime,

The star has been married three times. His first wife was Hanne “Kim” Norgaard, with whom he shares daughter Isan, from 1999 to 2003. He was also married to Sonya Nicole Hamlin for less than a year in 2006.

Idris Elba has opened up about feeling 'overwhelmed and angry' while posting a passionate video about knife crime in 2019 in his BBC documentary Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

Idris Elba's wife Sabrina Elba had been dreaming of going to law school since she was a child, but this all changed when she met the actor back in 2017

Idris Elba's wife Sabrina Elba opened up about the pair's "good and bad days" and the rule they have in place when it comes to mixing marriage with their joint business

Idris and ex-girlfriend Naiyana Garth welcomed their son on 17 April 2014, with Idris sharing the happy news with a sweet black-and-white photo of their fingers intertwined. "My son, Winston Elba, was born yesterday. Truly amazing," he shared on social media.

The murder of Ronan Kanda shocked the nation. Walking home minding his own business, Ronan's life was cruelly taken away by two other teenagers in a shocking case of mistaken identity

Jim Webster, who was Plymouth's police Commander between 2007 and 2009, oversaw a number of high profile investigations including nursery paedophile Vanessa George and Exeter bomber Nicky Reilly. During his reign he suggested that one way to reduce the number of victims of stabbings was a fundamental but simple redesign of kitchen knives.

Luther star speaks ahead of the release of BBC documentary in which actor talks to victims’ families, police officers and teenage offenders

Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. “In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom, I spent the night in a prison cell on Robben Island,