 The American playwright Tennessee Williams chose Adebayo to play a small part in the world premiere of his last play, "The Red Devil Battery Sign", in which Adebayo acted opposite Pierce Brosnan.Adebayo appeared in "The Oblong Box" at the age of eight, and Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier's "The Element of Crime".As well as claiming to have been the first black Teddy boy in London in his early teens, Adebayo also won a Rotary Club public-speaking award as a teenager, and worked for the BBC from the age of 12 on the radio programme "Network Africa".