Luti Fagbenle (Oladoke Lutiseku Mobolaji Fagbenle) is a British actor, film producer and entrepreneur.

Career

In 2006 Luti founded the production company Luti Media. The company has produced hundreds of music videos, commercials and films. Their work has been honoured with nominations and awards from the MTV VMAs, BAFTA, The MOBO Awards, Virgin Media Shorts, the UKMVAs and others. Fagbenle's debut film was the 2006 Channel 4 Documentary '' Nike Midnight Madness'' narrated by

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. In 2013 Luti's video for

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Best Song Ever "Best Song Ever" is a song recorded by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It was released on 22 July 2013 by Syco Music, Syco as the lead single from the group's third studio album, ''Midnight Memories''. The song was written and composed b ...

" broke the record on

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for views in 24 hours. Vevo announced that the music video delivered 12.3 million views in the 24 hours following its premiere. This beats out the previous record holder,

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's "

We Can't Stop "We Can't Stop" is a song by American singer Miley Cyrus, from her fourth studio album ''Bangerz'' (2013). It was released on June 3, 2013, by RCA Records as the lead single from the album. The song was written and produced by Mike Will Made ...

," which hit 10.7 million views. The video went on to win Best Video at the 2014 BRIT Awards.

Screen Nation The Screen Nation Film & TV Awards, formerly the bfm (black filmmaker) Film and TV Awards, was founded in September 2003 by independent film producer Charles Thompson MBE, as a platform to raise the profile of black British and international fil ...

honoured Luti with the Digital Vanguard Award for trailblazing contribution to the British and international online digital media industry at the 2013 Digital-IS Media awards at Google's headquarters. In 2014 The Luti Media produced video for

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'Fancy' helped the single reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming both Azalea's and Charli XCX's first number-one on that chart, holding the spot for seven consecutive weeks. The video was nominated for Best Video at the 2014

MTV Video Music Award The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honour the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category) ...

s and the 2014

MTV Europe Music Awards The MTV Europe Music Awards (originally named MTV European Music Awards, commonly abbreviated as MTV EMA) are awards presented by Paramount International Networks to honour artists and music in pop culture. It was originally conceived as an al ...

In 2018, with Luti Media's Jamaican production expertise, The Carters created a film (OTR 2) that explores the nature of love, life, sacrifice and changes through the story of

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and Beyonce. In 2019 Luti Media produced Maxxx for

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and

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written, directed and starred in by brother

OT Fagbenle Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun "O-T" Fagbenle ( Yoruba: ''Ọlátúndé Ọlátẹ́jú Ọláọlọ́run Fágbénlé''; born 22 January 1981) is an Emmy-nominated English actor, writer, and director. He has appeared in several films, stage, and ...

. Maxxx is a new Sitcom that centres around former famous boy band star turned drug-shamed tabloid laughing stock Maxxx. In 2021 Luti Media produced Highlife, voted best new TV show 2021 by

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magazine. Highlife new reality TV meets documentary-style show, Highlife follows a group of young and ambitious British West Africans in their every day life.

Personal life

Son of Nigerian journalist Tunde Fagbenle, and British Mother Ally Bedford, Luti is the younger brother of actor O. T. Fagbenle and the older brother of video music director and producer Oladapo Fagbenle; his sister is basketball player

Temi Fagbenle Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Títílọlá Olúwatóbilọ́ba Fagbenle is a British female basketball player for ZVVZ USK Praha. She was chosen for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Personal life Fagbenle was born on 8 September 1992 ...

Television Shows

In 2019 Luti Fagbenle began producing scripted Television series his debut new comedy series Maxxx for

and

. The series was nominated for a RTS award and an Edinburgh TV award. In 2021 he executive produced Docu-ality series Highlife for

. In 2021 Luti Fagbenle produced new reality Television series, Highlife. Described as "the first Black British premium reality series", the show premiered on

in August 2021.

Music videography

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fagbenle, Luti English male soap opera actors Living people Male actors from London 1985 births English people of Nigerian descent English people of Yoruba descent Yoruba male actors Yoruba businesspeople Businesspeople from London Black British male actors Yoruba filmmakers