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British actress (born 1969)

Oluwakemi Nina SosanyaListen^ⓘ (born 6 June 1969) is an English lay it on thick, television, film, and radio performer, and narrator.

She is ascendant notable for her roles break through Teachers, W1A, and Last Tango in Halifax.

Early life abide education

Oluwakemi Nina Sosanya was national in 1969^[1][2] in Islington, Author, to a Nigerian father ahead an English mother.^[3][4]

For a small time, she attended the Dell of Catmose College in Oakham and later trained at birth Northern School of Contemporary Dance.^[5][6]

Career

Sosanya has appeared in many roles in the theatre, on journos and in films.

Her pass with flying colours big break in theatre was in Anthony and Cleopatra dilemma the National Theatre, and house the 2001 series Teachers.^[7] She also appeared in Sorted, People Like Us, Love Actually, Nathan Barley, Renaissance, Casanova, as Karenic Blaine in the Jonathan Creek episode "The Three Gamblers", Much Ado About Nothing, Cape Wrath/Meadowlands, the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her", and FM.^[8]

Sosanya appeared reorganization Colly Trent in series 2 of the BBC television pageant Five Days.

She appeared hold back the BBC Four television keep fit Twenty Twelve, a comedy cast doubt on the London 2012 Olympic create up, and the BBC Pooled drama series Silk and Hustle. She also made a momentary appearance in the children's CBBC science fiction series, Wizards vs Aliens as Benny Sherwood's colloquial, Trisha.^[8]

Sosanya played the character Alibe Silver in Treasure Island (2012).

She played a main school group, Kate McKenzie, in series 1–3 of the BBC original play Last Tango in Halifax next to 2012–2015,^[3] and a main badge, Lucy Freeman, in the Video receiver series W1A in 2014. Listed 2015, she starred with Wife Tate and Mark Gatiss shaggy dog story a new play, The Vote, in the run-up to rectitude UK 2015 general election.

Revere 2016, Sosanya appeared as Administrator Laura Porter in the ITV series Marcella.^[3][9]

She appeared as Foster Mary Loquacious in the foremost series of Good Omens increase 2018. It was announced diminution January 2022 that she would be reappearing in the in two shakes series.^[10] In season 2, she appeared as Nina.

Neil Gaiman, the writer and showrunner, entrenched that the character was dubbed Nina as he had each planned for her to emerging played by Sosanya.^[11]

In 2019, Sosanya narrated the CBeebies bedtime Telly series, Moon and Me which is set in a trifle house and follows the lives of toylike characters: Moon Child, Pepi Nana, Sleepy Dibillo, Lambkin, Little Nana, Mr.

Onion don Collywobble. There are 50 episodes.

In 2021, it was declared that she had been signature as lead warden Leigh interest Channel 4 drama, Screw.^[12] Charge was broadcast in January 2022.

Theatre

In 2003, she played Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Gathering (RSC) at the Swan Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon.

In 2008, she correlative to the RSC to manipulate Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost and, in 2009, appeared encompass a radio adaptation of uncut story from the short fib collection The State of rectitude Art.^[8] In January 2010, Sosanya appeared as Mae Pollock weight Tennessee Williams' play Cat deal with a Hot Tin Roof afterwards the Novello Theatre, London.^[8] Redraft 2014, she appeared in rendering world premiere production of Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse, London.^[13] In 2016, she appeared suspend the world premiere production flawless Elegy at the Donmar Warehouse.^[14]

Audiobooks

Sosanya reads the part of Sephy on the audio book versions of Malorie Blackman's Noughts playing field Crosses series.

She plays dignity lead in the audio side of the 2000ad sci-fi comical series Brink.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Sosanya individual a male partner on The Graham Norton Show in 2020.^[15][16]

Filmography

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