Actress Sophie Okonedo: roles, films, biography, interesting facts

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Follow your dreams… This banal thesis is not empty words for Sophie Okonedo, who has come a long way from a saleswoman in the market to a contender for the main award - the Oscar. Our heroine believes that an actor will never achieve success if he does not work sincerely on the text of his role.

General information

Sophie Okonedo is a British actress. The track record of a native of the city of London includes 84 roles in film and television. She made her film debut as Adele Percy in the crime series Pure English Murder.

Movies and genres

The most famous projects with her participation are the series "Doctor Who" and the film "Hotel Rwanda". In the latter she played Tatyana.

Films with Sophie Okonedo belong to the following movie genres:

• Biography: "Skin", "Outstanding Women of the 20th Century".
• Military: "Hotel Rwanda".
• Documentary: "The Shroud of Turin: New Discoveries","Horizon".
• History: "Empty Crown", "Ages of Treachery".
• Short: Flash Frames.
• Melodrama: "Go", "Sex Scenes", "Inspector Linley Investigates", "This Year's Love".
• Cartoon: "Christopher Robin", "Doctor Who: Shalka's Scream".
• Adventure: Stormbreaker, After Earth, Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls.
• Action: Jackal, Sinbad, Aeon Flux.
• Detective: "Criminal Justice".
• Drama: "Oliver Twist", "Tsunami", "Child from Mars", "Dirty Pretty", "Disaster", "Father and Son", "Escape Master".
• Comedy: Peaches, Crazy Cows.
• Crime: "Most embarrassing murder", "Purely English murder".
• Music: "Young Blues Rebels".
• News: "Breakfast".
• Family: Sparz.

Ties & Awards

Sophie Okonedo, whose filmography is presented just above, starred with actors Robert Pugh, Daniel Webb, Stanley Townsend, David Harewood, Adam Kotz, Tom Georgeson and others.

In 1996, the actress entered the circle of contenders for the MTV channel award. In 2005, along with the rest of the performers in the film "Hotel" Rwanda "" fought forScreen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast. In the same year, Sophie Okonedo was invited to the Oscars as a contender for the main award in the Best Supporting Actress category. In 2010 she received the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Biography

Sophie Okonedo, whose photo you can also see here, was born on August 11, 1968 in the capital of Britain, London. Mom Sophie taught Pilates, dad is an official. Sophie has Jewish and Nigerian roots. The future actress was raised only by her mother, her father left the family when she was still a child. As a teenager, Sophie attended synagogue. After finishing school, she began working as a saleswoman.

The acting career of Sophie Okonedo was facilitated by the successful completion of her studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After that, the young actress was invited to the projects of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.

In 1997, the actress gave birth to a daughter from the Irish Eion Martin, with whom she was then in a civil marriage.

Now the actress lives near London.

Interesting facts about the actress

This section contains information that the actress herself revealed about herself in her recent interviews.

• Sophie Okonedo bought a house in the countryside because she loves living close to nature.
• According to the actress, she is not ashamed of beingtrue.
• Believes that the black actress she is in British cinema is only offered secondary and similar roles, so she prefers to work in projects for television, where the range of her repertoire is much wider.
• Sophie Okonedo is much more interesting stories about ordinary people who find themselves in unusual situations than films about supermen.
• The actress assures that she will take the stage of even the smallest theater if she is inspired by the fact that she will play on it. According to her, she never liked projects that were created only to make money.

Meaningful roles

In the post-Soviet space, this actress became known after the release of the 1995 comedy "Ace Ventura 2: Call of Nature", in which she played the princess of one of the African tribes. In this film, the protagonist is entrusted with the mission of finding the sacred animal of the Wachati tribe.

In 2002, Sophie Okonedo played a supporting role in the crime drama Dirty Charms, where the main characters are "fortunate" to get into a situation "on the verge of life and death" after they find in one of the premises of the hotel, in which they work, the human heart.

In the British historical drama series "Empty Crown", which is an adaptation of several works by William Shakespeare, the actress from London played Margaret. The film tells about the bloody struggle of roy alty for power.