British-Nigerian Hollywood actor, John Boyega, has lived outside his native country all his life. He had his education in the United Kingdom and began his career there too. And since playing Finn in the 2015 film ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and its 2017 sequel ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi,’ the actor has enjoyed a swift rise to fame, and it does not look like he plans on slowing down soon. Boyega grew up on an estate in Peckham, south London, with his parents and two older sisters. His father was a preacher who ran his own church and his mother was a career who took care of the disabled. As a boy he was small for his age, so that kids picked on him. But he soon learnt to stand up for himself after he courageously faced two boys who wanted to nab his phone off him on a bus ride home after school. Boyega remembers that he slapped the boys as hard as a parent would slap an erring child, and he felt good about it. He never let anyone pick on him and just knew from then on that…
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