Sophie Okonedo Biography

Following a string of theatre performances such as Shahrazad in The Arabian Nights and Anippe in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Okonedo broke through with a lauded performance as Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, performed for the National Theatre by legendary theatrical director Trevor Nunn. Despite the fact that this was Okonedo's only Shakespeare part, she was praised for her ability to depict a tight uncertainty between love and desire. The success of her Cressida led to her appearances on British television: she appeared in episode 5 of Clocking Off (BBC-1 2000), a six-part drama series about the secret lives of everyday people; she received a Royal Television Society Award nomination for her role as a single mother in Never Never (2000); and she appeared on Spooks (BBC-1 2002-), a popular series about Britain's domestic security agency, which was renamed MI5 across the Atlantic (A&E 2004- ). Okonedo moved quickly from British television to movies. Despite having several thankless roles in major films, including two lines as a princess in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and as a nameless Jamaican Girl in The Jackal (1997), she made a lasting impression with her portrayal of a prostitute living in a rundown West London hotel in Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things (2003).

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