Sophie Okonedo Wiki, Height, Age, Parents, Siblings, Wife, Net Worth, Career, Slow Horses Sn 5
Sophie Okonedo Wiki, Biography
Sophie Okonedo, a British Actress, is a cast member for the Slow Horses Season 5 Series, which premiered on the 24th of September 2025. She is popularly known for making appearances in movies/series/shows such as The Jackal, Dirty Pretty Things, and After Earth.
Sophie Okonedo Height|Weight
Okonedo stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 8 inches and weighs around 60 KG.
Sophie Okonedo Age
Okonedo was born on August 11, 1968, in London, England. She celebrates her birthday on the 11th of August every year. She is 57 years old as of 2025.
Sophie Okonedo Parents|Siblings|Relatives
Sophie Okonedo was born in London to her parents, Joan (née Allman), a Jewish Pilates teacher born in the East End of London, and Henry Okonedo, a British Nigerian who worked for the government. Her maternal grandparents, who spoke Yiddish, came from families that had emigrated from Poland and Russia, and she was brought up in her mother’s Jewish faith.
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When Sophie was five years old, her father left the family and returned to Nigeria, where he started a new family. From then on, she was raised by her mother on the Chalkhill Estate in the Wembley Park district of the London Borough of Brent.
Sophie Okonedo Net Worth
In the course of her career as an Actress, Sample has been able to accumulate a net worth of between $500,000 and $4 million.
Sophie Okonedo Partner|Husband| Children
Sophie Okonedo has one daughter from a previous relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin and resides in Muswell Hill, London. Reflecting on her heritage, she has said, "I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be Black," and describes her daughter as an "Irish, Nigerian Jew." As of 2023, Okonedo is married to Jamie Chalmers, a builder, and is the stepmother to his two children.
Sophie Okonedo Educational Background
She later pursued formal acting training at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where she honed her craft and prepared for a professional career on stage and screen.
Sophie Okonedo Job|Career|Biography
Sophie Okonedo has built a versatile career across film, television, theatre, and audio drama. Early in her career, she appeared in Scream of the Shalka, a Doctor Who webcast, providing both the voice and likeness for the character Alison Cheney, and later portrayed Liz Ten (Queen Elizabeth X) in the 2010 BBC episodes “The Beast Below” and “The Pandorica Opens.”
She also appeared in the BAFTA-nominated Clocking Off as Jenny, and played Tulip Jones in Stormbreaker (2006), Nancy in the 2007 adaptation of Oliver Twist, and the Wachati Princess in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995). In 1998, she was considered for the lead in B. Monkey, but the role was blocked by the producer.
Okonedo earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Hotel Rwanda (2004) and a Golden Globe nomination for her role in Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006). She appeared in The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Skin (2009), and portrayed Winnie Mandela in the BBC drama Mrs. Mandela (2010).
Her stage work has been widely acclaimed. She starred as Ruth Younger in the 2014 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. In 2016, she returned to Broadway in Ivo van Hove’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor and appeared as Queen Margaret in the BBC’s The Hollow Crown. She later performed as Stevie in Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? in London’s West End in 2017.
Okonedo has also worked extensively in audio and radio drama, including playing Hunter in a 2013 BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. From 2021 to 2025, she portrayed Siuan Sanche in the television adaptation of The Wheel of Time. In 2024, she earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the title role of Medea at Soho Place.
Sophie Okonedo Awards, Honours and Recognitions
Sophie Okonedo is a highly acclaimed actress, recipient of a Tony Award and nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy, three BAFTA TV Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours and promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours, both in recognition of her services to drama.
Sophie Okonedo was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours and later promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours, both in recognition of her services to drama. In December 2024, she was honored with the Richard Harris Award at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).
Sophie Okonedo Twitter(X), Facebook, and Instagram
Sophie Okonedo is active on her social media accounts. On her Instagram Account, she has about 5.25 K Followers. Below are links to visit her social media accounts.
