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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 ...

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: The Secret Life of Bees
Description: Drama and Adaptation
October 17th, 08
thematic material and some violence.
Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo ...

Title: London Film Festival Day 9
Description: Claire braved the elements in the Square tonight to bring you interviews from two premieres. First Sugar; intro, Algenis Perez Soto (0:19), Secret ...

Title: The Secret Life Of Bees European Premiere
Description: London: 23 October 08
Were into the second half of the 52nd BFI London Film Festival, its day nine and freezing rain was the challenge. It was ...
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Telegraph and Argus - Found Jul. 3, 2009 Sophie Okonedo said Skin summed up the 'ridiculousness' of the country's former segregation policies as she attended the premiere in London's... Film Skin highlights segregation - Metro.co.uk Film Skin highlights segregation - Mirror.co.uk Film Skin highlights segregation - Hawick News Film Skin highlights segregation - Glasgow Herald Explore All |
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Glasgow Herald - Found 23 hours ago Sophie Okonedo said Skin summed up the 'ridiculousness' of the country's former segregation policies. |
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Entrepreneur.com - Found Jul. 3, 2009 L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo, CCH Pounder, Alan... STARS DONATE VOICES TO FOLKTALES AUDIOBO... - EURweb Explore All |
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Irish Times - Found Jul. 3, 2009 In Manchester, the reliably charismatic Sophie Okonedo, possessor of the saddest eyes in acting, becomes even glummer when her nephew gets... |
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Earthtimes.org - Found Jul. 1, 2009 L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo, CCH Pounder, Alan... Star-Studded Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales Audiobook ... - Forbes.com Explore All |
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Evening Herald - Found Jun. 30, 2009 ... a teenage son called Sean (Reece Noi), who lives back in Manchester with Michael's sister-in-law Connie (Sophie Okonedo), who happens to be a... |
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Africa Leader - Found 23 hours ago Sophie Okonedo said Skin summed up the "ridiculousness" of the country's former segregation policies. |
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Evening Herald - Found Jun. 23, 2009 It also stars Irish actor Stephen Rea, Sophie Okonedo, John Kavanagh and Flora Montgomery, and was writted by Emmy Award-winning Irish writer... |
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Haringey Independent - Found Jul. 3, 2009 Sophie Okonedo said Skin summed up the 'ridiculousness' of the country's former segregation policies as she attended the premiere in London's... |
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Salisbury Journal - Found Jul. 3, 2009 Sophie Okonedo said Skin summed up the 'ridiculousness' of the country's former segregation policies as she attended the premiere in London's... |
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Sophie Okonedo
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Okonedo at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival |
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Sophie Okonedo (born 1968)12 is an Academy Award-nominated British actress.
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Okonedo was born in London, England, the daughter of Joan (née Allman), a pilates teacher, and Henry Okonedo, who worked for the government.3 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.456 Her father left the family when Okonedo was five, and she was subsequently raised in poverty by her single mother.7
Okonedo trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.8 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 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.9
Okonedo has a daughter, Aoife (11).10 from her previous relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin.11 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".12