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Sophie Okonedo CBE (born 11 August 1968) is a British actress and narrator. The recipient of a Tony Award, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, three BAFTA TV Awards, an Emmy Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
Sophie Okonedo is a British actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Tatiana Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda (2004). Okonedo was born within London in 1968.
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Sophie Okonedo in The Flame of Tar Valon (2021)- Kenneth Branagh, Annette Bening, Dawn French, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, Russell Brand, Armie Hammer, Gal Gadot, Ali Fazal, Letitia Wright, and Tom Bateman in Death on the Nile (2022)
- Will Smith and Sophie Okonedo in After Earth (2013)
- Sophie Okonedo, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Hannah Sharp in Doctor Who (2005)
- Sophie was born in August 1968 in London, the daughter of a Jewish mom and a Nigerian dad.
- She used to ask if she was adopted. In the 70s, growing up as a young black girl with a white mom, she was confused. As she explained, “I used to say, ‘Mum, am I adopted?’
- While not a practicing Jew, Sophie is proud of her Jewish heritage. “My grandparents kept a fairly Jewish household. They celebrated all the holidays, and they spoke Yiddish when they didn’t want me to understand the conversation,” she explained.
- Her daughter, Aoife, was born in 1997, and Sophie calls her an “Irish Nigerian Jew.”
Sophie Okonedo. Highest Rated: 94% Dirty Pretty Things (2002) Lowest Rated: 9% Aeon Flux (2005) Birthday: Aug 11, 1968. Birthplace: London, England, UK. Born in London to a Nigerian father and...
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCredit67%Fresh audience score. 79%Grace (Voice)91%Fresh audience score. 100%Narrator, Self85%Rotten audience score. 43%Regina (Character)31%Rotten audience score. 51%Nomad (Character)- August 11, 1968
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.
Sep 24, 2020 · Tony Award winner Sophie Okonedo has spent her whole career appearing on stage and notes she does a play every year. In that medium she has ample rehearsal time to study the script and utilize...
Apr 15, 2024 · Sophie Okonedo is in the middle of a field in Sussex when she calls British Vogue to shoot the breeze about Bottega Veneta before the Olivier Awards. She has chosen to wear Matthieu Blazy’s work for the West End’s big night, because the painterly off-the shoulder gown called to her from the clothing rail.
