Oyin Oladejo

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Oyin Oladejo (* around 1985 in Ibadan , Nigeria ) is an actress living in Canada . She became known to an international audience through her first television role as Joann Owosekun in the series Star Trek: Discovery . In addition, she mainly plays at various theaters in Toronto .

Life

Oyin Oladejo grew up in Lagos and came to Canada in 2001 at the age of 16. She abandoned her original plan to study law and worked among other things as a ticket seller for the Canadian Opera Company, where she discovered her interest in acting. She then completed the Theater Arts - Performance course at Humber College in Toronto , as well as the Soulpepper Academy in Toronto . In addition to regular theater engagements in Toronto, she played a supporting role in a short film, but otherwise had no film offers - according to her own statement in an interview, she was about to give up the acting profession. Finally, on the advice of her agent, she took part in a casting with a self-made video - without knowing which production was being cast for - and was shortly afterwards selected for the role of bridge officer Joann Owosekun in Star Trek: Discovery . Oladejo has been part of the series crew since the first season of the series.

In the following years she was seen in the role of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet or in the male role of Lopachin in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard .

Theater (selection)

  • In This World, Roseneath Theater, Toronto 2013
  • Happy Place, Soulpepper (Young Center for the Performing Arts), Toronto 2015
  • Marat / Sade , Soulpepper (Young Center for the Performing Arts), Toronto 2015
  • Noises Off, Soulpepper (Young Center for the Performing Arts), Toronto 2016
  • A Doll's House , Soulpepper (Young Center for the Performing Arts), Toronto 2016
  • TomorrowLove, Outside the March, Toronto 2016
  • Hamlet , Shakespeare Theater Company, Washington, DC 2018
  • The Cherry Orchard , Crown's Theater, Toronto 2019 (as Lopakhin)
  • The Father ( Florian Zeller ), Coal Mine Theater, Toronto 2019

Filmography

Awards

  • Edna Khubyar Acting Award (Humber College)
  • Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance - Individual (for In This World )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Oyin Oladejo - Biography. In: soulpepper.ca. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Discovery Heads to Blu-ray: Oyin Oladejo. In: intl.startrek.com. CBS Entertainment, October 10, 2018, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b The Play's the Thing . In: Humber College (ed.): Humber today . Winter 2014. Toronto 2014, p. 2 ( digitized on humber.ca [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Oyin Oladejo. In: intl.startrek.com. CBS Entertainment, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Heather Ferris: Discovery Part 4 at the 2018 Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas. Video, from 16:04 min. In: youtube.com. August 4, 2018, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Gretel Meyer Odell: In This World Photo Shoot. January 14, 2013, accessed March 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Jon Kaplan: Preview: Happy Place & Marat / Sade. Actor shows contrasting sides in Soulpepper shows. In: nowtoronto.com. September 9, 2015, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  8. ^ Jon Kaplan: Review: Futuristic TomorrowLove ™ looks at technology's effect on passion and relationships. In: nowtoronto.com. November 30, 2016, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Photos: Get A First Look at Michael Urie in Shakespeare Theater Company's HAMLET. In: broadwayworld.com. January 25, 2018, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  10. ↑ The Cherry Orchard. In: crowstheatre.com. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Isabella Perrone: BWW Review: Competing Ideas and Unrealized Plotlines Leave THE CHERRY ORCHARD Struggling to Take Root. In: broadwayworld.com. April 2, 2019, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ The Father. In: coalminetheatre.com. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Coal Mine Theater Hosts Toronto Premiere of THE FATHER. In: broadwayworld.com. January 10, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b Oyin Oladejo. In: pondshortfilm.com. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Recipients. In: tapa.ca. Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), accessed April 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Oladejo, Oyin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian-Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH around 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibadan , Nigeria