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Title: Actress Sophie Okonedo talks about new movie Skin on GMTV
Description: British actress and Academy Award nominee, Sophie Okonedo, joins us live in the studio to talk about her latest film Skin
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Title: London Film Festival Day 9
Description: Secret Life of Bees intro (4:57), director Gina Prince Blythwood (5:17), Sophie Okonedo (7:08), Paul Bettany (8:21), outro (9:53). Steve was on ...
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Title: Sophie Okonedo at Skin UK Premiere London Arrivals
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Title: Never Never John Parlour John Simm Sophie Okonedo Clip
Description: This is a clip from the 00 mini series Never, Never starring John Simm and Sophie Okonedo. Watch John Parlour the slighly seedy, but always sexy ...
Title: The Secret Life of Bees
Description: material and some violence. Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys Directed Gina Prince Bythewood Produced ...
Title: Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys @ Secret Life of Bees Premiere
Description: Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Sophie Okonedo signing autographs for fans outside Roy Thomson Hall, Sep 6, 08 ...
Title: Stormbreaker Part 2 *HD Quality*
Description: Stormbreaker Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Damian Lewis, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Alex Pettyfer, Andy Serkis, Alicia Silverstone ...
Sophie Okonedo News and Gossip
New York Times - Found Oct. 29, 2009
WITH: Sophie Okonedo (Sandra Laing), Sam Neill (Abraham Laing), Alice Krige (Sannie Laing), Ella Ramangwane (Young Sandra), Hannes Brummer...
The Huffington Post | Raw Feed - Found Oct. 28, 2009
The film looks at the life of Sandra Laing (played by Sophie Okonedo as a teen and adult, Ella Ramangwane as a child), a black-looking child...
Hollywood - Found Oct. 27, 2009
... to compete against 18-year-old Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank), Abbie Cornish (Bright Star), Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Sophie Okonedo (Skin).
British Independent Film Award Nominations - MaleFirst Mens Magazine
Fish Tank Claims 8 BIFA Nominations - Rotten Tomatoes
Daniel Day-Lewis honoured with British award - The Independent
Daniel Day Lewis - Day Lewis Feted At British Independent Film ... - Contactmusic
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MaleFirst Mens MagazineMaleFirst Mens Magazine - Found Oct. 28, 2009
... to compete against 18-year-old Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank), Abbie Cornish (Bright Star), Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Sophie Okonedo (Skin).
Daniel DayLewis to be honoured at British Independent Film Awards - Telegraph
Daniel Day-Lewis To Be Feted At British Independent Film Awards - Post Chronicle
Day-Lewis Feted At British Independent Film Awards - NewKerala.com
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MaleFirst Mens MagazineABC News - Found Oct. 26, 2009
Katie Jarvis/Fish Tank; Sophie Okonedo/Skin Best Actor - Aaron Johnson/Nowhere Boy; Andy Serkis/Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll;
Indie film honour for Day-Lewis - BBC
'Fish Tank' leads BIFAs race - Variety
'Fish Tank' leads Brit indie film award noms - Hollywood Reporter
Fish Tank tops British indie film award shortlists - Reuters
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BBCThe Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Found Oct. 25, 2009
?I?m a North London, working-class, black, Jewish girl,? actress Sophie Okonedo said.
Los Angeles Times - Found 6 hours ago
It stars Sophie Okonedo and Sam Neill as the girl's conflicted father.
Mirror.co.uk - Found 19 hours ago
Also starring Sophie Okonedo, this is a rough around the edges, brave drama with a stomping soundtrack.
Washington Times - Found Nov. 6, 2009
Miss Laing is played as a child by Ella Ramangwane and as an adult by Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo.
Seattle Times - Found Nov. 5, 2009
PREV Related 'Skin,' with Sophie Okonedo, Ella Ramangwane, Sam Neill, Alice Krige.
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Sophie Okonedo
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 Okonedo at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | 1968 London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
Sophie Okonedo (born 1968)12 is an English actress. In 2004, her role as Tatiana, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel Rwanda, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.3
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Early life
Okonedo was born in London, England, the daughter of Joan (née Allman), a pilates teacher, and Henry Okonedo, who worked for the government.4 Her father is Nigerian and her mother, an Ashkenazi Jew, was born in the East End to Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Poland and Russia; Okonedo was raised attending synagogue.567 Her father left the family when Okonedo was five, and she was subsequently raised in relative poverty by her single mother ("but we always had books," she says).8
Career
Okonedo trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.9 She has worked in a variety of media including film, television, theatre, and audio drama. She performed in Scream of the Shalka — a webcast based on the BBC television series Doctor Who — as Alison Cheney, a companion of the Doctor. As well as providing the character's voice, Okonedo's likeness was used for the animation of the character.
Okonedo played the role of Jenny in the Paul Abbot series, 'Clocking Off'.
Okonedo also played the part of Ms. Tulip Jones in the movie Stormbreaker (2006) and Nancy in the 2007 television adaptation of Oliver Twist.
She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for her role as Tatiana Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda and nominated for a Golden Globe for a Lead Actress in a Miniseries for her work in Tsunami: The Aftermath.
She played alongside Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Dakota Fanning as May Boatwright, a woman who struggles with depression, in the film The Secret Life of Bees (2008).
In 2009, Okonedo is set to portray Winnie Mandela in the BBC drama Mrs Mandela.10
Personal life
Okonedo has a daughter, Aoife (born 1997).5 from her previous relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin.7 They live in Muswell Hill, London. On her heritage, Sophie says, "I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black" and calls her daughter an "Irish, Nigerian Jew".11
Awards/Nominations
- Academy Awards
- 2005, Best Supporting Actress (Hotel Rwanda) [nominated]
- Black Reel Awards
- 2008, Best Ensemble (The Secret Life of Bees) [nominated]
- 2008, Best Supporting Actress (The Secret Life of Bees) [nominated]
- 2005, Best Actress-Drama (Hotel Rwanda) [winner]
- British Independent Film Awards
- 2009, Best Actress (Skin) [nominated]
- 2003, Best Supporting Actress (Dirty Pretty Things) [nominated]
- Golden Globes
- 2007, Best Actress in a Mini-Series/Television Movie (Tsunami: The Aftermath) [nominated]
- Hollywood Film Festival
- 2008, Ensemble Acting of the Year (The Secret Life of Bees) [winner]
- Image Awards
- 2009, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (The Secret Life of Bees) [nominated]
- 2007, Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie/Mini-Series (Tsunami: the Aftermath) [winner]
- 2005, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Hotel Rwanda) [nominated]
Filmography
- Young Soul Rebels (1991)
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
- The Jackal (1997)
- This Year's Love (1999)
- Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
- Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- Æon Flux (2005)
- Stormbreaker (2006)
- Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006)
- Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)
- Martian Child (2007)
- Oliver Twist (2007)
- The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
- Skin (2008)
- Mrs. Mandela (2009)
TV Series
- Father & Son (2009)
- Criminal Justice (2009)
References
- ^ Profile
- ^ BFI profile
- ^ "Sophie Okonedo: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, 2004". The Academy Awards Database. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1256012534192. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ Daily Mail report on Okonedo
- ^ a b Franks, Alan (2007-12-08). "Sophie Okonedo does the twist". Times Online. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2975631.ece. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
- ^ 'Sophie Okonedo: "Fame, here I come"'
- ^ a b "'I guess I'm up for grabs now'". The Guardian. 2005-02-20. http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1418413,00.html. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ Interfaith Celebrities The Jewish Mermaid - InterfaithFamily.com
- ^ RADA website
- ^ Ben Dowell (2009-03-11). "BBC commissions Winnie Mandela drama". Guardian News and Media. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/11/bbc-commissions-winnie-mandela-drama. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
- ^ http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/O/origination/new_jews_double.html
