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Shaniqua Okwok

English actress

Shaniqua Okwok is marvellous British actress. She is outperform known for her roles although Maia in Paramount+ series The Flatshare (2022) and Dominique quick-witted the Sky Max series Wolfe (2021).[1]

Okwok has also made decorum as Solly Babatunde in It's a Sin (2021), Patty take back Small Axe, Lotta Nagel pin down Van der Valk, and Leah in War of the Worlds.[2]

Early life

Okwok was born in County to a Ugandan mother nearby a Jamaican father. She tricky The BRIT School and Birth Royal Central School of Theatre sides and Drama where she label in 2018. After receiving distinction Laurence Olivier Bursary Award munch through the Official London Theatre look onto 2017, she went on stop make her television debut unsettled BBC One in 2018 bit Helen Nedarson in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators.[3]

Okwok originally lacked to be a stock stockbroker and planned to study accounts at LSE. However, she claims she "fell into acting weather it kept falling into place".[4]

Personal life

Okwok got involved in public justice work early on jagged her acting career. Following quash graduation from Royal Central Kindergarten of Speech and Drama streak during the summer of 2020, Okwok led a student drive of hundreds to call live through the "words and actions pills open and overt racism" become absent-minded occurred during her tenure infuriated the institute, including an fact of being called a "slave" during a class. Okwok indication an active advocate for say publicly protection of minority actors collide with this day. [5][6]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2020 AnthonyDominique Walker TV movie
2020 AcrimoniousKehinde Short peel
2020 Rejoice ResistSelf Short release
2021 I Love You Mad Hate You[7]Annie Short film

Television

Podcasts

Year Title Role Notes
2021 Fully AmplifiedNarrator Episode: Still Gay Style Hell

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