Sophie Okonedo
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Sophie Okonedo 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.
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[on being awarded the OBE in June 2010] The cherry on the cake and way beyond anything I would have imagined for myself.
I’m not particularly intellectual, the way I approach things.
I use all sorts of sources - but I always go back to the script. And then I just let the thing live in my body a bit.
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Death on the Nile
After Earth
Hellboy
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
The Jackal
Æon Flux
Christopher Robin
Hotel Rwanda
Heart of Stone
Stormbreaker
The Secret Life of Bees
Dirty Pretty Things
10 Lives
Martian Child
Wild Rose
Raymond & Ray
Catherine Called Birdy
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Janet Planet
Skin
Charlotte
Young Soul Rebels
Go Now
War Book
This Year's Love
Mad Cows
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Alibi
Concorde: A Supersonic Story
Age of Treason
Whose Baby?
Maria's Child
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Celebration
Mrs Mandela
The Scarecrows' Wedding
The Stranger on the Bridge
Running With The Beest
Mouse
Peaches102 credits on file
Television 24
Doctor Who
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Casualty
The Wheel of Time
Slow Horses
Frontline
Spooks
His Dark Materials
Tony Awards
Inside No. 9
The Bill
Screen Two
The Oscars
GMTV
Modern Love
Ratched
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Explained
The Hollow Crown
Criminal: UK
Dispatches
Alien Worlds
Oliver TwistAwards 5
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About this person
Sophie Okonedo 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. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2019 New Year Honours, both for services to drama.
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