![]() In May, Harewood featured as part of Channel 4 documentary Troy Deeney: Where’s My History? which captured efforts to make the teaching of the history and experiences of black, Asian and ethnic minorities mandatory in schools. Read more: David Harewood reveals he was sectioned after having breakdown ![]() While discussing the potential causes of his breakdown, Harewood spoke candidly about experiencing racism as a child and the subsequent ‘intrusive feelings’ that followed him into adulthood. “I’d go, ‘what on Earth am I doing here? I better go home’, and I’d start walking home and then black out, and I’d wake up in Camden at four o’clock in the afternoon. In May this year he told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs’ presenter, Lauren Laverne: “I started to sort of have these moments of blackouts and suddenly wake up at three o’clock in the morning and I’d be outside Euston station in the middle of the night. Receiving his star on the Broad Street Walk of Stars He also backed the launch of a new online platform, .uk (Just ask a question), which helps prevent people with mental health problems ‘reaching crisis stage’, from founder Danny Gray, who previously appeared on Dragons’ Den. Psychosis And Me, in 2019 looking back at his younger years when he suffered a breakdown and was sectioned aged 23. Recently, Harewood has also become an advocate for better mental health support. Read more: New Year's Honours - full list of celebs getting knighted, OBE, MBE or CBE Closer to home, he has also appeared in Brit TV favourites, The Bill and Doctor Who. Harewood was born in Small Heath in 1965 and received a place on Birmingham’s Walk of Stars in Broad Street in 2013.Īs well as Homeland and Supergirl, the now 57-year-old, also played Joel Steadman in The Night Manager and Captain Poison in Blood Diamond. His OBE is for services to drama and charity. David Harewood best known for his role as David Estes, the CIA counterterrorism director in TV series Homeland and the roles of Hank Henshaw/Cyborg Superman and J’Onn J’Onzz in Supergirl, has been made a OBE, having previously been made an MBE in the 2012 New Years Honours. A talented actor and broadcaster from Birmingham has received a top title in the 2023 New Year Honours list.
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