Follow your dream ... This banal thesis is not empty words for Sophie Okonedo, who has come a long way from a saleswoman in the market to a candidate for the main award - the Oscar. Our heroine believes that an actor will never succeed if he does not penetrately work on the text of his role.
general information
Sophie Okonedo is a British actress. The record list of natives of the city of London 84 roles in film and television. She made her film debut in the role of Adele Percy in the crime series "Purely English Murder."
Films and genres
The most famous projects with her participation are the series “Doctor Who” and the film “Hotel Rwanda”. In the last, 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: "Shroud of Turin: New Discoveries", "Horizon".
- History: "An empty crown", "Epochs of treachery".
- Short: Flash Frames.
- Romance: Forward, Sexual Scenes, Inspector Linley Investigating, This Year's Love.
- Cartoon: "Christopher Robin," "Doctor Who: Shalk of the Shalk."
- Adventures: Stormbreaker, After Christ, Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls.
- Action: Jackal, Sinbad, Aeon Flux.
- Detective: "Criminal Justice."
- Drama: Oliver Twist, Tsunami, Child from Mars, Dirty Charms, Catastrophe, Father and Son, Escape Master.
- Comedy: Peaches, Crazy Cows.
- Crime: "The most unpleasant murder," "Purely English murder."
- Music: Young Blues Rebels.
- News: Breakfast.
- Family: Sparz.
Links and rewards
Sophie Okonedo, whose filmography is presented just above, starred along with actors Robert Pugh, Daniel Webb, Stanley Townsend, David Harewood, Adam Kotz, Tom Georgeson and others.
In 1996, the actress entered the circle of applicants for the MTV channel award. In 2005, along with other performers in the film "Hotel" Rwanda "" fought for the award of the Guild of Actors in the category "Best Cast". In the same year, Sophie Okonedo was invited to the Oscar ceremony as a candidate for the main award in the category "Best Supporting Role". In 2010, she was promoted to 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. Sophie's mom taught Pilates, dad an official. Sophie has Jewish and Nigerian roots. The future actress was brought up only by her mother, the father left the family when she was still a child. As a teenager, Sophie attended the synagogue. Having lost school, she began to work as a saleswoman.
Sophie Okonedo's acting career was promoted by the successful completion of 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 Theater.
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 in her recent interviews.
- Sophie Okonedo bought a house in the countryside because she likes to live close to nature.
- According to the actress, she is not ashamed of what is true.
- She believes that the dark-skinned actress she is in the British cinema offers only 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 than the story of ordinary people who are in unusual situations than movies about supermen.
- The actress assures that she will enter the stage of even the smallest theater, if she is encouraged that she will play on it. According to her, she never liked the projects that were created only for making money.
Significant roles
In the post-Soviet space, this actress was found out after the 1995 comedy Ace Ventura 2: The Call of Nature was released, in which she played the princess of an African tribe. In this film, the main character is assigned the mission of finding the sacred animal tribe of Vachati.
In 2002, Sophie Okonedo played a supporting role in the crime drama "Dirty Charms", where the main characters are "lucky" to get into a situation "on the verge of life and death" after they find in one of the rooms of the hotel in which they work, human heart.
In the British historical drama of the serial episode "Empty Crown", which is an adaptation of several works by William Shakespeare, an actress from London played Margaret. The film tells about the bloody struggle of royalty for power.