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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1968-08-11 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Sophie Okonedo

Biography:

Sophie Okonedo, OBE (born 1968) is a British actress and singer, who has starred in both successful British and American productions. In 1991, she made her acting debut in the British critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, Young Soul Rebels. In 2004, she gained critical acclaim for her role as Tatiana Rusesabagina, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel Rwanda (2004). Her role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

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Known For

Acting

2024

10 Lives as Grace (voice)
Janet Planet as Regina

2023

2022

Raymond & Ray as Kiera
Catherine Called Birdy as Ethelfritha Rose Splinter of Devon
Death on the Nile as Salome Otterbourne
Charlotte as Ottilie Moore (voice)
Slow Horses as Ingrid Tearney

2021

Escaping Eritrea as Narrator
The Wheel of Time as Siuan Sanche

2020

Alien Worlds as Narrator (voice)
Ratched as Charlotte Wells

2019

Wild Rose as Susannah
Hellboy as Lady Hatton
Modern Love as Elizabeth Cannon
Flack as Caroline
Chimerica as Tessa Kendrick
Criminal: UK as Julia Bryce
His Dark Materials as Xaphania (voice)

2018

Christopher Robin as Kanga (voice)
Explained as Narrator (voice)

2017

Concorde: A Supersonic Story as Narrator (voice)
Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise as Self - Narrator (voice)

2016

The Good Terrorist as Narrator (voice)
Undercover as Maya Cobbina

2015

War Book as Philippa
The Slap as Aisha

2014

Inside No. 9 as Katrina

2013

After Earth as Faia Raige
Mayday as Fiona Hill
The Escape Artist as Maggie Gardner

2012

The Hollow Crown as Margaret

2011

The Slap as Aisha

2010

Mrs Mandela as Winnie Mandela

2009

Father & Son as Connie Turner

2008

The Secret Life of Bees as May Boatwright
Skin as Sandra Laing
Criminal Justice as Jackie Woolf

2007

Martian Child as Sophie
Celebration as Sonia
Oliver Twist as Nancy
Racism: A History as Narrator (voice)

2006

Stormbreaker as Mrs. Jones
Tsunami: The Aftermath as Susie Carter

2005

Born With Two Mothers as Lucretia Bridges
Æon Flux as Sithandra
Doctor Who as Liz 10

2004

Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana Rusesabagina
Whose Baby? as Karen Jenkins

2003

Alibi as Marcey Burgess
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as Alison Cheney (voice)

2002

Dead Casual as Donna
Spooks as Amanda Roke

2001

Sweet Revenge as Ellen Lewis

2000

Peaches as Pippa
In Defence as Bernie Kramer
Never Never as Jo Weller

1999

Mad Cows as Rosie

1997

The Jackal as Jamaican Girl

1996

Deep Secrets as Honey

1995

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls as The Wachati Princess
Go Now as Paula

1993

Maria's Child as Melanie
GMTV as Self

1992

1991

1986

Casualty as Gina Russell

1984

1983

Frontline as Narrator

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee

1953

The Oscars as Self

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