Sophie Okonedo

Movie Actress

Sophie Okonedo was born in London on August 11th, 1968 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 55, Sophie Okonedo biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
August 11, 1968
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
London
Age
55 years old
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Film Actor, Stage Actor, Voice Actor
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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Sophie Okonedo Life

Sophie Okonedo (born 11 August 1968) is an English film, theatre, and television actress.

She began her film career in the British coming-of-age drama Young Soul Rebels (1991) before appearing in Ace Ventura's When Nature Calls (1995) and Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things (2002). Okonedo's breakthrough came in 2004, when she co-starred in the film Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana Rusesabagina, Rwandan hotel manager and humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina, played by American actor Don Cheadle.

She became the second black female Briton to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 77th Academy Awards in 2005.

She later received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the drama series Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006) and BAFTA TV Award nominations for the drama series Criminal Justice (2009) and the television film Mrs. Mandela (2010).

On Flux (2005), Skin (2009), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), and Christopher Robin (2018) were among her film roles. In the 1999 Royal National Theatre performance of Troilus and Cressida, Okonedo appeared on stage as Cressida.

She appeared in A Raisin in the Sun's 2014 revival as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play and was named in a Play for her role of Ruth Younger. In the 2010 New Year Honours, Okonedo was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Early life

Okonedo was born in London on August 11, 1968, the niece of Joan (née Allman), a Jewish pilates instructor who was born in the East End of London, and Henry Okonedo (1939–2009), a British Nigerian who worked for the government, and was born in London. The maternal grandparents of Okonedo, who spoke Yiddish, were from families that immigrated from Poland and Russia. Okonedo's Jewish faith was raised in her mother's faith.

Okonedo was born in the Chalkhill Estate, which is part of the Wembley Park district in Brent's Wembley Park neighborhood.

Personal life

Okonedo has one daughter, who grew up in Muswell Hill, London, and she has a film editor named Eoin Martin. "I'm proud to be Jewish as I feel to be Black" and calls her daughter a "Irish, Nigerian Jew," she said of her roots.

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Sophie Okonedo Career

Career

Okonedo trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has worked in a variety of media including film, television, theatre and audio drama. She performed in Scream of the Shalka, a webcast based on the BBC television series Doctor Who as Alison Cheney, a companion of the Doctor. As well as providing the character's voice, Okonedo's likeness was used for the animation of the character. In 2010, Okonedo portrayed Liz Ten (Queen Elizabeth X) in the BBC TV series Doctor Who episodes "The Beast Below" and again briefly in "The Pandorica Opens".

Okonedo played the role of Jenny in Danny Brocklehurst's BAFTA TV Award nominated episode of Paul Abbott's series Clocking Off. She also played the role of Tulip Jones in the film Stormbreaker (2006) and Nancy in the television adaptation of Oliver Twist (2007). She is also known for playing the role of the Wachati Princess in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995). In October 2017, Michael Caton-Jones stated that, in 1998, he had chosen Okonedo to star in B. Monkey. However, the film's producer, Harvey Weinstein, banned this because the actress did not meet his personal sexual preference.

She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress for her role as Tatiana Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda (2004) and nominated for a Golden Globe Award for a Lead Actress in a Miniseries for her work in Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006).

She played alongside Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Dakota Fanning as May Boatwright, a woman who struggles with depression, in the film The Secret Life of Bees (2008); opposite Sam Neill and Alice Krige as Sandra Laing in Skin (2009), and portrayed Winnie Mandela in the BBC drama Mrs. Mandela broadcast in January 2010.

She appeared in 2014 on Broadway in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun as Ruth Younger. She won the Tony Award, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for this role, beating out co-star and fellow nominee Anika Noni Rose. In 2016, Okonedo returned to Broadway in Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible at the Walter Kerr Theatre as Elizabeth Proctor opposite Bill Camp, Tavi Gevinson, Jason Butler Harner, Ciarán Hinds, Jim Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Thomas Jay Ryan and Ben Whishaw. Also in 2016, Okonedo appeared as Queen Margaret in the second season of the BBC's The Hollow Crown, an adaptation of the Shakespearean plays Henry VI, Part I, II, III and Richard III. She performed in the role of Stevie in the 2017 West End revival of the existentialist play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, by Edward Albee. Directed by Ian Rickson and also starring Damian Lewis as Martin, the production's first preview was on 24 March 2017, opening night on 5 April 2017, and final performance on 24 June 2017, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

In May 2013, Okonedo played the role of Hunter in a BBC radio production of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, adapted by Dirk Maggs. She portrayed Siuan Sanche in the 2021 television series The Wheel of Time.

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Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi writes very gushing tribute to wife Princess Beatrice - as sister Eugenie shares snap from behind the scenes of Vogue World gala

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 16, 2023
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi has paid a gushing tribute to his wife Princess Beatrice while posting photographs from the Vogue World gala, while sister Princess Eugenie has shared a sweet behind the scenes photo of the royals on the way fashionable event. Edo, 39, who married Beatrice in 2020, posted snaps of the pair at the gala with an adorable caption on his Instagram page. My enchanting wife.' 'Bringing joy to my life,' he wrote.

After being 'too airbrushed,' Naomi Campbell, 53, Cindy Crawford, 57, Christy Turlington, 54, and Linda Evangelista, 58, remain on stage at the Vogue bash

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 15, 2023
On Thursday, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, and Linda Evangelista all took the stage hand-in-hand at the swanky Vogue World bash in London. The 90s supermodels, who recently caused controversies with their airbrushed cover of the glossy magazine, looked sensational in glamorous gowns as they were welcomed with raucous applause from the Theatre Royal Drury Lane audience. Both four quartets were dressed to the nines as they stepped out of the theatre as part of the evening's performance, which also included a monologue by actress Sophie Okonedo, 55, and perplexes by Stromzy, 30, and Annie Lennox, 68.

At a Vogue party, Princess Beatrice and her partner Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi cosy up before partying with Princess Eugenie

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 15, 2023
During a night out yesterday, Princess Beatrice (pictured) and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (pictured) entertained themselves by a PDA. The royal couple were joined by Beatrice's sister Princess Eugenie (pictured) who stunned in a teal frock for her first public appearance after giving birth to her son Ernest at the end of May. Beatrice, mother of one, wore a black floral flowing dress at the Vogue World Exhibition in central London with Edo, who looked dapper in a white tuxedo jacket and black trousers. Edo kissed his wife, who couldn't help but giggle sweetly during her husband's PDA as they arrived for pictures. The two couples were pictured beaming as they were taken together at the festival, and they looked adoring as they were snapped smiling.