Actors Idris and Sabrina Dhowre Elba on how their parents inspired their activism

Actors Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre Elba accidental their parents were driving forces down their ain activism today, which focuses connected nutrient security.

Idris Elba was inspired by his father's enactment successful the Ford national and the stories helium would archer him astir it, wherever helium worked for galore years.

"I retrieve my dada wasn't getting paid other wealth for being successful the union. He conscionable got specified pridefulness successful warring for those that didn't person a dependable and, you know, going up against the guy," Elba told CNBC's Tania Bryer connected Tuesday astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos.

"We're privileged to beryllium capable to talk and truthful that's why, however my dada truly benignant of encouraged maine to bash that," Elba added.

Elba said helium came from a "humble" background, with some of his parents leaving their villages for "big dreams." His main motivator for moving hard, and starting to enactment aboriginal successful his life, was matching these dreams, helium said.

"It truly allows maine astatine my spot of privilege is, what I bash now, to conscionable retrieve wherever I travel from and wherever determination are radical determination that would similar to get her oregon would similar to, you know, combat poorness and don't person a dependable to bash that. So that's what truly benignant of inspires me," Elba said.

For Sabrina Dhowre Elba it was her parent that shaped her thrust to springiness back, she said.

"For me, my parent is everything," Dhowre Elba told CNBC. "Her stories and her passionateness truly conscionable benignant of conscionable bled into everything I do," she added.

She besides archetypal introduced the Elba mates to the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development, for which they are present goodwill ambassadors, Sabrina explained. At the World Economic Forum successful Davos, the mates was among the winners of the yearly Crystal Award, which recognizes artists that are besides relation models for planetary leaders.

A travel to Sierra Leone besides inspired her owed to the stories she heard from locals, Dhowre Elba explained. "It was a life-changing travel for me," she said. "Why I spell connected tract visits truthful often with the enactment is due to the fact that you truly retrieve that tiny things tin marque specified immense changes."