Susan Wokoma

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Susan Indiaba Wokoma (born December 31, 1987 in London , England ) is a British actress . She is best known for starring in Chewing Gum and Crazyhead .

Life

Wokoma is the daughter of Nigerian parents with an older sister who sings in musicals. She grew up in Elephant and Castle in south London.

She enrolled for the National Youth Theater during the summer vacation and took a weekend acting course in Marylebone , where she taught singing from Gareth Malone, known from The Choir . In 2002 she took part in the reality show Serious Jungle , in which teenagers went on an expedition in the jungle. She had her first role in 2006 in the television film That Summer Day about the terrorist attacks in London in 2005 . At the age of 19 she came to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , which is why her father kicked her out at home. She graduated in 2010.

In 2012, her father died of a stroke while filming for Half of a Yellow Sun , after which she visited her mother's village in Nigeria and met her relatives.

After a few smaller television roles, she had her breakthrough in Michaela Coel's series Chewing Gum . In 2016, she starred alongside Cara Theobold in Crazyhead , for which she was recognized by the Royal Television Society. In 2017 she was listed by Forbes on the European 30 Under 30 list and named Breakthrough Brit by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts .

She has been playing in Porters since 2017 . As a voice actress , she spoke a role in BrainFreeze from 2015 to 2017 , then in the video games Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 Princess Shuri von Wakanda and World of Warcraft : Battle for Azeroth Princess Talanji. In 2018 she wrote and produced the short film Love the Sinner , in which she played the mother of the leading role. She also wrote an episode for The Reluctant Landlord , Jokes for Porters, and was on the script team for the second season of Sex Education . In 2019 she appeared in Year of the Rabbit and Dark Money . Her own family sitcom and comedy about abortion are currently in the works.

Filmography

TV Shows

  • 2002: Serious Jungle (6 episodes)
  • 2011: Holby City (one episode)
  • 2011: Doctors (one episode)
  • 2011: Hotel Trubble (5 episodes)
  • 2013: Misfits (one episode)
  • 2015: Uncle (one episode)
  • 2015: Bluestone 42 (3 episodes)
  • 2015–2017: BrainFreeze (synchronous role)
  • 2015-2017: Chewing Gum (10 episodes)
  • 2016: Crashing (3 episodes)
  • 2016: Our Ex-Wife (Episode 1x01)
  • 2016: Crazyhead (6 episodes)
  • 2017: Zapped (one episode)
  • 2017-2019: Porters (9 episodes)
  • 2019: Year of the Rabbit (6 episodes)
  • 2019: Dark Money (4 episodes)

Films :

  • 2006: That Summer Day (TV movie)
  • 2013: Half of a Yellow Sun
  • 2013: Alpha: Omega (short film)
  • 2014: Sex on the Beach 2 (The Inbetweeners 2)
  • 2015: The Last Hours of Laura K (TV movie)
  • 2015: Burn Burn Burn
  • 2018: To Provide All People (TV movie)
  • 2018: Love the Sinner (short film)
  • 2019: The Ghost and the House of Truth

Video games :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nigerian-British Actress, Susan Wokoma in 'Super Simple Love Story' . In: Omenka . April 5, 2019. Accessed March 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Alice Jones: Susan Wokoma: 'The only time you get black women on screen at the same time is a slave story…' . In: inews . March 13, 2019. Accessed March 15, 2020.
  3. ↑ John Byrne: Crazyhead's Susan Wokoma: 'NYT shaped everything for me - find a group where you can act with your peers' . In: The Stage . October 30, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ Susan Wokoma . In: Royal Court Theater . Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  5. ↑ RTS West of England Awards 2017 . In: Royal Television Society . March 19, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  6. ↑ Susan Wokoma . In: Forbes . Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  7. ↑ BAFTA Announces Breakthrough Brits of 2017 . In: BAFTA . October 25, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wokoma, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wokoma, Susan Indiaba (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK