Sophie Okonedo | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

Highest Rated: 94% Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

Lowest Rated: 9% Aeon Flux (2005)

Birthday: Aug 11, 1968

Birthplace: London, England, UK

Born in London to a Nigerian father and British mother, Sophie Okonedo never considered being an actress when she grew up, let alone an international star. A voracious reader all her life-a government official visiting the family's home marveled at the large bookcase stocked with books-Okonedo got her start through a writing workshop she took with renowned novelist and playwright, Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic). Though she had no desire to be a writer, Okonedo took the course because it was something interesting to do at night. She soon realized, however, that she was no good as a writer. But she was very good at reading other people's work aloud, which eventually led to her involvement with the Royal Court Theatre. From there she got a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where she got her true start as an actress.

Highest rated movies

94% Dirty Pretty Things 92% Wild Rose 91% Hotel Rwanda 86% Skin 80% Janet Planet 78% War Book 61% Death on the Nile 60% The Secret Life of Bees

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Sophie Okonedo The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Sophie Okonedo (L), Jessie Mueller (R), 06/08/2014, ©CBS The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Sophie Okonedo (L), LaTanya Richardson (C), Anika Noni Rose (R), 06/08/2014, ©CBS HOTEL RWANDA, Sophie Okonedo, Don Cheadle, 2004, (c) United Artists HOTEL RWANDA, Sophie Okonedo, 2004, (c) United Artists ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS, Sophie Okonedo, 1995, (c)Warner Bros. HOTEL RWANDA, Sophie Okonedo, Don Cheadle, 2004, (c) United Artists HOTEL RWANDA, Sophie Okonedo, 2004, (c) United Artists THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, from left: Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Dakota Fanning, 2008, TM and ©Copyright Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved./ THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, from left: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo, 2008, TM and ©Copyright Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved./ THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, from left: Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Hudson, 2008, TM and ©Copyright Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved./ AFTER EARTH, from left: Will Smith, Sophie Okonedo, 2013. ph: Frank Masi/©Sony Pictures The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Sophie Okonedo, 06/08/2014, ©CBS ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS, Jim Carrey, Sophie Okonedo, 1995, (c)Warner Bros. HOTEL RWANDA, Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, 2004, (c) United Artists AEON FLUX, Sophie Okonedo, 2005, (c) Paramount HOTEL RWANDA, Cara Seymour, Sophie Okonedo, 2004, (c) United Artists AEON FLUX, Sophie Okonedo, Charlize Theron, 2005, (c) Paramount HOTEL RWANDA, Antonio David Lyons, Sophie Okonedo, Don Cheadle, 2004, (c) United Artists DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, Chiwetel Ejiofer, Sophie Okonedo, 2002, (c) Miramax

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
75% 75% 10 Lives Grace (Voice) - 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout Narrator,
Self
- 2023
80% No Score Yet Janet Planet Regina (Character) - 2023
30% 51% Heart of Stone Nomad (Character) - 2023
48% 55% Kiera (Character) - 2022
61% 82% Death on the Nile Salome Otterbourne (Character) $45.6M 2022
70% 93% Charlotte Ottilie Moore (Voice) - 2021
17% 48% Hellboy Lady Hatton (Character) $21.9M 2019
92% 87% Wild Rose Susannah (Character) $1.6M 2018
72% 83% Christopher Robin Kanga (Voice) $99.2M 2018
78% 64% War Book Philippa (Character) - 2014
12% 36% After Earth Faia Raige (Character) $60.5M 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mrs. Mandela Winnie Mandela (Character) - 2010
86% 79% Skin Sandra Laing (Character) - 2008
60% 78% The Secret Life of Bees May Boatwright (Character) $37.8M 2008
35% 72% Martian Child Sophie (Character) $7.5M 2007
50% 49% Scenes of a Sexual Nature Anna (Character) - 2006
35% 53% Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker Mrs. Jones (Character) $652.5K 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tsunami, The Aftermath Unknown (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 69% Tsunami, The Aftermath Unknown (Character) - 2006
9% 39% Aeon Flux Sithandra (Character) $25.9M 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet Born With Two Mothers Lucretia Bridges (Character) - 2005
91% 94% Hotel Rwanda Tatiana Rusesabagina (Character) $23.5M 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Whose Baby? Unknown (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 62% Alibi Marcey Burgess (Character) - 2003
94% 82% Dirty Pretty Things Juliette (Character) $8.1M 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sweet Revenge Ellen (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Never Never Jo Weller (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 0% Peaches Pippa (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 73% This Year's Love Denise (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deep Secrets Honey (Character) - 1996
21% 72% Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls The Wachati Princess (Character) $107.5M 1995
60% 74% Go Now Paula (Character) $29.5K 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Age of Treason Niobe (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Maria's Child Melanie (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 50% Young Soul Rebels Tracy (Character) $6.8K 1991

TV

Credit
97% 94% Slow Horses Ingrid Tearney (Character) 2023
100% 91% Inside No. 9 Katrina (Character) 2022
92% 78% Britannia Hemple (Character) 2022
69% 66% Modern Love Unknown (Character) 2021
87% 88% Flack Caroline (Character) 2019-2020
89% No Score Yet Chimerica Tessa Kendrick (Character) 2019
71% 75% Wanderlust Angela Bowden (Character) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Undercover Maya Cobbina (Character) 2016 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Earth's Natural Wonders -- Life at the Extremes Narrator 2015 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise Narrator 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Great Performances Unknown (Character) 2016
98% 82% The Hollow Crown Margaret (Character) 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Escape Artist Maggie Gardner (Character) 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Remembering World War I Self 2012
68% No Score Yet Sinbad Razia (Character) 2012
67% 49% The Slap Aisha (Character) 2011
90% 65% Doctor Who Liz 10 (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet 100% Criminal Justice Jackie Woolf (Character) 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alibi Marcey Burgess (Character) 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tsunami: The Aftermath Unknown (Character) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
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