Top Boy’s Ra’Nell child star unrecognisable all grown up with a beard 10 years after leaving hit drama
TOP Boy child star Malcolm Kamulete looks worlds away from his character Ra’Nell Smith 10 years after leaving the gritty UK drama.
The actor played a major role in the first two seasons of Top Boy as a young boy living on the Summerhouse Estate.
Ra’Nell had a tough start in life, regularly witnessing his dad beating his mum Lisa before he eventually became an absent father.
The youngster was roped into tending a small cannabis farm by dealer Heather, and his involvement gradually led to bigger issues.
He witnessed an accidental killing when gang leader Gerrard ‘Sully’ Sullivan accidentally shot hospital worker and ex gang member Leon as he tried to protect Ra’Nell from being robbed by gang members.
In season two, Ra’Nell was viciously beaten by Vietnamese shop owner and drug dealer Vincent.
Vincent took over Heather’s cannabis farm and employed Ra’Nell’s pals Gem and Chantelle to run it for him.
Later in the season, Gem’s chip shop owner dad stabbed Vincent to death after discovering he had drugged and mistreated his son.
Ra’Nell didn’t return for season three with co-star Ashley Walters previously saying that Malcolm favoured a football career.
However, it appears he is well and truly back in the acting business now.
His latest role is as Bosco in BBC series Champion. The family drama tells the story of musician Bosco and his sister Vita, who wants to step out from his shadow and have her own career.
Now 27, Malcolm has a finely-trimmed beard and is unrecognisable from his Top Boy character.
Meanwhile, Netflix recently teased the fate of key Top Boy characters, including a significant death, in the series’ latest trailer.
The trailer sees Dushane (Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kane Robinson) having a tense one-to-one with the hot-headed Sully telling Dushane to “step back” so he can become the boss of the drug game and run Summerhouse.
The streamer recently released the names of the Top Boy episodes and their basic skeleton synopsis with important giveaways blocked out.
Still, fans of the show have been left with enough information to predict what could potentially unfold.
The descriptions read: “Episode One: Step Back -Dushane agrees to back Shelley’s new business venture. XXXX receives a shipment containing a XXXX.
“Episode Two: The Tour – Jaq spends time with her sister, Lauryn. Sully tries to take care of a new threat, but Dushane won’t trust him to XXXX.
“Episode Three: Birthday Party- Dushane tries to track down his XXXX. Sully plots a move against his XXXX. Shelley’s XXXX are XXXX.
“Episode Four: The Food is Killing Us – Stefan and Erin take a step forward in their relationship. XXXX with Dushane. Jaq starts to doubt XXXX.
“Episode Five: Has it Come to This – After a daring move, Jaq, XXXX. Sully looks for XXXX. Dushane learns that XXXX are XXXX him XXXX.
“Episode Six: If We Are Not Monsters- With Summerhouse XXXX, XXXX tries to make things right. Dushane makes XXXX to XXXX, and Sully is confronted by a XXXX.”
Season 2 concluded with Sully’s heartless and careless actions, which will affect him and Dushane’s business and personal relationships.
Netflix has revealed that in the final Season, fans will see the troublesome duo endure ‘new problems as everything they’ve built comes under threat from forces outside and within their empire’.
Sully and Dushane have lived their whole lives abiding by a specific street code, but in the final chapter of the hit crime show, the pair are tested to the max as they fight to become the top boy of Summerhouse.
Top Boy Season 3 airs on Netflix on Thursday, September 7.