He's 'The Coolest Man in the World'. But who on earth is Elba, you may ask? Well, Elba has garnered this accolade among some cultural arbiters for having played Stringer Bell, the right-hand man of Avon Barksdale, the dominant drug dealer of Baltimore's West Side in… The Wire. Yep, you got it!

And now... This June, Idris Elba is returning to BBC One to reprise his role of DCI John Luther, the super-intuitive detective struggling to cope with his own demons, in two new zany detective series set on the mean streets of London.