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Sophie Okonedo Trivia -
Trained at RADA
She is of half Nigerian/half European-Jewish heritage, but is a born and raised Brit.
Has a daughter, Aoife, from a relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin. She is no longer with him.
Invited to join AMPAS in 2005.
She is a graduate of Cambridge University.
In 2005, Okenedo became the first black actress since Angela Bassett in 1994 to receive an NAACP Image Award nomination for the same role in which she was nominated for an Oscar. Previous Oscar nominees Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Halle Berry and Queen Latifah were not nominated by the NAACP for the same roles.
Sophie Okonedo Detailed Biography -
Sophie Okonedo (born August 2, 1969 in London, England) is an Academy Award-nominated actress, born to a caucasian Jewish mother and a Nigerian father. Her father left the family a few years after her birth, and Okonedo was raised in poverty by her single mother.
She appeared in Scream of the Shalka — a webcast based on the BBC television series Doctor Who as Alison, a companion of the Doctor.
She was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) in the category of best supporting actress in 2004 for her role in Hotel Rwanda.
