Bentley Kalu was born in Britain and brought up in North America where he studied Theatre Arts, and became an on-screen Actor, Theatre actor , as well as a voice-over industry professional.

He is also trained in theatre, stage combat and fight choreography and is a great singer.

After moving back to the UK, he has appeared as the voice of several real-life people for radio and television productions, including the poets Claude Mackay and Langston Hughes, the jazz performer Miles Davis and the former politician Colin Powell.

He has also appeared in various Theatre productions such as 'Bethlehem lights ' where he played an African Warlord to the upbeat musical theatrical production of 'Aladdin' where he played a boisterous upbeat and very like-able 'Genie'.

He has a natural, smooth, deep, basso voice and is capable of a variety of accents including Standard American, various regional American accents, African, West Indian, Jamaican,and British accents. He is also good at Character voices such as elderly and croaky, high-pitched voices for animation, urban ghetto (which he used for World Series Of Dating), middle-class American and a Welsh Patois.

He has a following after appearing in Doctor Who and Avengers Age of Ultron. In '2019' he started shooting the first Season of the highly anticipated Showtime Series 'HALO' after being cast as a series regular.