SOPHIE OKONEDO
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Hung Over:Election Shorts (Rough Cuts), Caryl Churchill 70th Birthday Readings, Night Songs, I Just Dropped By to See The Man, Been So Long, Women and Sisters.
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: The Vagina Monologues (Ambassadors); Troilus and Cressida, Money (National); The Arabian Nights (Young Vic); 900 Oneonta (Old Vic/Ambassadors); His Lordship’s Fancy (Gate); A Jovial Crew, The Odyssey. Tamburlaine the Great, The Changeling (RSC).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Sinbad, The Slap, Doctor Who, Criminal Justice, Father and Son, Oliver Twist, Celebration, Tsunami: The Aftermath, The True Voice of Rape, Bank Holiday, Born with Two Mothers, Whose Baby Is It Anyway?, Alibi, Spooks, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Dead Casual, Clocking Off, Staying Alice, Sweet Revenge, Never Never, In Defence, Murder Most Horrid, Deep Secrets, The Governor, The Bill, Maria’s Child, The Age of Treason, Casualty.
FILM INCLUDES: Mrs Mandela, Skin, The Secret Life of Bees, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Martian Child, Stormbreaker, Aeon Flux, Hotel Rwanda, Dirty Pretty Things, Peaches, Mad Cows, This Year’s Love, The Jackal, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Young Soul Rebels.
AWARDS INCLUDE: 2010 TV Collective Best Actress award for Mrs Mandela, 2010 MAE Mbseac Best Actress award for Skin, 2010 Bahama Rising Star award for Skin, 2008 Best Ensemble Acting of the Year at the Hollywood Film Awards for The Secret Life of Bees, 2007 Outstanding Actress in a TV Movie NAACP Image Awards for Tsunami: The Aftermath.