Kidulthood (2006)

Ben Drew (Aka Plan B) Talks About His Feature Directorial Debut 'Ill Manors' & Starring Alongside Ray Winstone In 'The Sweeney'

"Polymath" is a word that describes Ben Drew pretty well. The 29 year old East London native first came to fame back in 2005 under the name Plan B, where his work on influential grime mixtape Run The Road landed him a contract with 679 Records, and his album Who Needs Action When You Got Words landed the following year too all kinds of acclaim. But there was more than one string to his bow. In 2008, he made his acting debut in " Adulthood ," Noel Clarke 's sequel to his gritty British hit " Kidulthood ," and followed it up in 2009 as the bad guy in " Harry Brown ," holding his own on screen against Michael Caine 's aged vigilante. At the same time, his music career went supernova, with The Defamation of Strickland Banks, a concept soul record telling the story of a singer sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. The record went triple platinum in the U.
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