Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye (born April 6th, 1999) is an American actor, voice actor, and singer. He is most known for being the former voice of Darwin Watterson in The Amazing World of Gumball. He was replaced by Terrell Ransom, Jr. in season 3 due to his deepening voice.
He is most known for his role as Manny from the movie I Can Do Bad All by Myself. He was also the voice of Gossamer from The Looney Tunes Show.
Boakye has two brothers—Kwame Boateng and Kofi Siriboe—both of whom are also actors.
Filmography
2005
- Strong Medicine (Lovonne, one episode)
- Inconceivable (child, one episode)
2006
- The Shield (Wendell, one episode)
2007
- Days of our Lives (Artemis/Scott, eighteen episodes)
- Day Break (James Mathis, five episodes)
- 'Til Death (child, one episode)
- If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2008
- Ni Hao, Kai-Lan (Mr. Hoppy, one episode)
- Boston Legal (Turnip, one episode)
2009
- I Can Do Bad All by Myself (Manny)
- The Princess and the Frog (newspaper boy, others)
2010
- Valentine's Day (soccer kid)
- Faith and Dreams (student)
- Special Agent Oso (Andrew, episode "Thunderbubble")
- Hawthorne (William Glass, one episode)
2011–2015
- Men of a Certain Age (Jamie Thoreau, fourteen episodes)
- The Amazing World of Gumball (Darwin)
- Southland (Richard)
- The Looney Tunes Show (Gossamer)
- Hawaii Five-0 (Kevin, one episode)
- The Mentalist (Anthony Rome, one episode)
- The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (young narrator, two episodes)
- Community (Elijah Bennett, two episodes)
- Touch (Faria, one episode)
- Unconditional (Macon)
Trivia
- Coincidentally, he is younger than Logan Grove, much like how Darwin is younger than Gumball.
- He is the great-grandson of a respected Ghana West African king.
- Each of the three voice actors for the Watterson children had roles in other shows on Cartoon Network.
- Logan Grove, who plays Gumball, voices Garfield Logan in Young Justice.
- Kwesi Boakye, who plays Darwin, voices Gossamer in The Looney Tunes Show.
- Kyla Rae Kowalewski, who plays Anais, voices Me-Mow in Adventure Time, in the episodes "Jake vs. Me-Mow and "Angel Face"."