Danny John-Jules trained at the Omnibus Theatre Company and Anna Scher children's Theatre. His theatre credits include Night and Day, the UK premiere of Carmen Jones, Destry Rides Again at the Donmar Warehouse and Labelled with Love at the Albany Empire.

In the West End, Danny has appeared in Barnum at the London Palladium, CATS and TIME. He created the role of 'Rocky 1' in Starlight Express at the Apollo, Victoria, and was 'Dink' in the first West End production of Carmen Jones at the Old Vic Theatre for director Simon Callow and musical director Henry Lewis.

In 1994, he played 'Avery' in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson (directed by Paulette Randall) and 'Mac', the Playboy's father, in The Playboy of the West Indies, before going on to appear in The Rover at Jacob Street Film Studios, directed by Jules Wright for the Women's Playhouse Trust - the production was also filmed by BBC Television.

In 1995, Danny created the role of 'Neal' in Lonely Hearts, a new musical by Trisha Ward, at the Oxford Fire Station, before going on to play 'Robert Sideway' in Our Country's Good at Theatre Clwyd.

Danny recently played "Jimi Hendrix" in a production called The Devil's Interval which marks the year in which Jimi Hendrix would have been 60 - at The Handel Museum in Brook Street, London.

His film credits include Seven Green Bottles, Scum, the Great Muppet Caper, Ragtime and Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me, for Working Title Films, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sleep and Blade 2 as "Assad" with Wesley Snipes and directed by Guillermo del Toro.

Danny's radio credits include A City Called Glory, the life story of Sam Cooke, for producer Andy Jordan at BBC Radio and Can't Catch Me for producer Nandita Ghose for BBC Radio 4.