Sophie Okonedo CBE (born 11 August 1968) is an English film actress,
singer, narrator, 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: When Nature Calls (1995) and Stephen
Frears's Dirty Pretty Things (2002).Okonedo's breakthrough performance
came in 2004, when she co-starred in the film Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana
Rusesabagina, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager and humanitarian Paul
Rusesabagina, portrayed by American actor Don Cheadle. For this role,
she became the second Black female Briton to receive a nomination 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 miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006) and BAFTA TV Award
nominations for the drama series Criminal Justice (2009) and the
television film Mrs. Mandela (2010). Her other film roles include This
Year's Love (1999), Æon Flux (2005), Stormbreaker (2006), Martian
Child (2007), Skin (2008), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), After Earth
(2013), War Book (2014), Christopher Robin (2018), Wild Rose (2018)
and Hellboy (2019).On stage, Okonedo starred as Cressida in the 1999
Royal National Theatre production of Troilus and Cressida. She made
her Broadway debut in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun and
received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured
Actress in a Play and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in
a Play for her portrayal of Ruth Younger.
singer, narrator, 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: When Nature Calls (1995) and Stephen
Frears's Dirty Pretty Things (2002).Okonedo's breakthrough performance
came in 2004, when she co-starred in the film Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana
Rusesabagina, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager and humanitarian Paul
Rusesabagina, portrayed by American actor Don Cheadle. For this role,
she became the second Black female Briton to receive a nomination 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 miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006) and BAFTA TV Award
nominations for the drama series Criminal Justice (2009) and the
television film Mrs. Mandela (2010). Her other film roles include This
Year's Love (1999), Æon Flux (2005), Stormbreaker (2006), Martian
Child (2007), Skin (2008), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), After Earth
(2013), War Book (2014), Christopher Robin (2018), Wild Rose (2018)
and Hellboy (2019).On stage, Okonedo starred as Cressida in the 1999
Royal National Theatre production of Troilus and Cressida. She made
her Broadway debut in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun and
received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured
Actress in a Play and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in
a Play for her portrayal of Ruth Younger.
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