It's as if he's learnt how to clone himself and there are several different, high-achieving Kwames running around at any one time. He plays Finlay the ambulance driver in the long-running television series Casualty. He was runner-up in Celebrity Fame Academy, providing a God-loving, soulful antidote to the just-for-laughs caterwauling of other contestants (people still stop him in the street to say he was robbed). Kwame, 35, is also a father of three, a sometime broadsheet contributor and cultural pundit, and, most notably, an award-winning playwright. He spent two years as writer-in-residence at the Bristol Old Vic, swiftly garnering a reputation as a new black British voice of guts and vision. His fifth play, Elmina's Kitchen, featuring three generations of a family set against the background of gang violence in Dalston, recently played at the National Theatre to huge critical acclaim.