Babs Olusanmokun

Babs Olusanmokun (born 18 September 1984; age 39) is a Nigerian-American actor who plays Joseph M'Benga in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Olusanmokun has appeared in various film and television roles since 2004. Among his early television roles are guest spots in four episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2006, 2009, and 2010. He also appeared in episodes of The Unit and Veronica Mars (2007), the US version of Life on Mars (with a cameo by Whoopi Goldberg), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008, with Donna Murphy), Blue Bloods and NYC 22 (2012, with Sonequa Martin-Green).

He continued his television work with appearances on Copper (2013), Unforgettable and The Blacklist (2014) and Gotham in 2015, before playing Omoro Kinte in the 2016 remake of the mini-series Roots, appearing in an episode with Dominic Burgess. The same year he also appeared in an episode of another mini-series, The Night Of.

2017 saw him in a recurring role on The Defenders, and 2018 in three episodes of Sneaky Pete, and an episode of Black Mirror. In 2019, he performed recurring roles in The Widow and the mini-series Too Old to Die Young. In addition to Strange New Worlds, in 2021 he appeared in the British mini-series The Drowning Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024).

He also voiced characters in the video games Max Payne 3 (2012) and Red Dead Redemption (2018).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds regular cast
Jess Bush • Christina Chong • Celia Rose Gooding • Bruce Horak • Anson Mount • Melissa Navia • Babs Olusanmokun • Ethan Peck • Rebecca Romijn

Star Trek appearances[]

External links[]

• Babs Olusanmokun at Wikipedia
• Babs Olusanmokun at the Internet Movie Database