Damalie Namusoke: Who Is Daniel Kaluuya’s Mother?

Who Is Daniel Kaluuya’s Mother?

Damalie Namusoke is widely known as British actor and writer Daniel Kaluuya’s mother. Damalie’s son is known for his performance both on screen and on stage. He started his acting career when he was a teenager in improvisational theatre. He has played roles in Get Out, Kick-Ass 2, Black Panther, The Fades, Sicario, Judas and the Black Messiah, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and many more. For his work, he has received numerous accolades.

Damalie Namusoke: Bio Summary

Daniel Kaluuya’s mother Damalie Namusoke is from Uganda. She is said to have migrated from Uganda to London, United Kingdom. There isn’t much information on the internet regarding Damalie’s age, date of birth, parents’ identity, siblings’ and other relatives’ details, educational background, and qualifications, among other vital details of her life.

Damalie Namusoke was married to Stephen Kaluuya who is from Uganda. Damalie and Stephen are separated. Damalie is said to have worked as a nurse. She is a private person who doesn’t talk to the media about herself. She is in the spotlight because of her famous son Daniel Kaluuya.

Damalie Gave Birth To Daniel In 1989 And Raised Him Alone

Damalie Namusoke is the woman who gave birth to actor Daniel Kaluuya on 24 February 1989, in London, England. She raised her son alone on a council estate in Camden Town. She also has a girl child, Daniel’s older sister. The father of her children Stephen Kaluuya had no contact with his children. Stephen was reportedly in Uganda and he hardly visited due to the stringent Visa policies.

Daniel Kaluuya spent the first 15 years of his life without having a relationship with his father Stephen. Stephen had left London and was living in Balaka, Malawi. Stephen has revealed that he saw his son when he was only a toddler and since then, he didn’t know how to get in touch with him.

“Stephen just wants the truth to come out and says he could be the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle left in Daniel’s life,” a source said. “Stephen saw Daniel as a newborn baby, but since then he has never met Daniel and doesn’t know how to get in touch with him.”

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However, as a single mother of two, Damalie Namusoke did her very best to raise her children. She didn’t have it easy. Her son Daniel Kaluuya once spoke in an interview about how things were for his mom in the UK. He said: “My mom is from Uganda. She came to London to give birth to me. I lived in hostels until I was two years old, and then she got a home in Camden, where I grew up.”

Daniel added: “She was on benefits for a long while, which is what Americans call welfare. Now, she works for a special needs school in Camden, which is the biggest drug market in Europe. It was where the Sex Pistols were born, as well as punk. Amy Winehouse lived there. It can be quite a dark place, because there are loads of drugs and all the drugs went into homes.”

Daniel Kaluuya also spoke about his mother being strict. He said: “I was that kid who could do schoolwork really easily—but I was bored, so I messed around a lot. My mom was strict, so she wanted me to get my grades. As long as I got the grades, I was thinking I could do whatever the fuck I liked. I just wanted to have fun and have vibes—to get grades to prove myself and carry on.”

“If I got bad grades, I didn’t see it as a reflection of me. I knew from an early age that school was a test of your memory, rather than a test of your intellectualism. It’s not about learning; it’s about retaining.”

Damalie Has A Good Relationship With Her Son

Damalie Namusoke and her son Daniel Kaluuya are close to each other. Even during his Oscars speech when he won Best Supporting Actor for the movie ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’, Daniel appreciated his mother for raising him and being a very supportive mother. His mother Damalie and older sister were moved by his speech and they had tears in their eyes.

However, Damalie Namusoke wore a confused expression after her son Daniel Kaluuya crack a joke, mentioning that his parents had sex to bring him here. “It’s incredible,” Daniel said. “My mom met my dad, they had sex, it’s amazing. Do you know what I’m saying? I’m here, do you know what I mean? I’m so happy to be alive, so I’m going to celebrate that tonight.”

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The camera caught his mother Damalie Namusoke’s reaction to her son’s joke while she sat in the audience. Social media users also shared their comments on Daniel’s mom’s reaction.

Incredible that we get to see the real-time reaction from Daniel Kaluuya’s mother as he talks about his parents having sex pic.twitter.com/juxCZeJcQC

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 26, 2021

Meanwhile, Daniel Kaluuya has stated on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that his mother did not understand his success. He said his mother Damalie Namusoke isn’t impressed by his success. “Because there’s no stable income, she doesn’t understand it,” Daniel said. “She doesn’t understand the term freelance, she doesn’t get it.”

“I was like, ‘Mom, I got nominated for an Oscar!’, and she was like, ‘Congratulations, does this mean you’re going to have a job?'”