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Amaka Okafor
Acting

Amaka Okafor
Homepage
https://theartistspartnership.co.uk/artist/amaka-okafor/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1981-11-03,Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Gender
Female
Biography
Sally Amaka Okafor is a British actress. She is known for her work in theatre, and her roles in the film Greatest Days (2023) as well as the BBC One series The Responder (2022) and the Netflix series Bodies (2023). Okafor was born in Birmingham to a Nigerian reggae artist father and an Indian journalist mother, and moved around the UK growing up. She studied theatre devising at Liverpool John Moores University. She began her career touring community theatre in schools, prisons, and churches, and was a member of the Unicorn Theatre ensemble in London for two years. Originally credited as Sally Amaka Okafor, she made her West End theatre debut playing Sofia in Florian Zeller's The Son, which transferred from Kilburn's Kiln Theatre to the Duke of York's theatre in October 2019. In 2016 she appeared in Peter Pan at the National Theatre, and played Lady Macduff in Macbeth at the same theatre in 2018.She has appeared at the Royal Court Theatre in Hope Has A Happy Meal (2023), Grimly Handsome (2017), It's All Made Up, The Space Between, and I See You. She has played Miranda in Unicorn Theatre's The Tempest, Guildenstern in Almeida Theatre's Hamlet, Amal in National Theatre of Scotland's Glasgow Girls, and an official in Hamlet at the Barbican Centre. Her other theatre credits include Nora: A Doll's House (2020), Bird, and After The End (2022). Okafor's television work has included playing DI Deborah Barnes, a former colleague of the central character, Chris Carson, in the BBC's The Responder.She also appears in BBC drama The Split (2020). Okafor appears as DS Hasan in Netflix's Bodies. Bodies is created by Paul Tomalin, directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner, and based on the graphic novel by Si Spencer and Dean Ormston. In one of her most prominent roles to date, Okafor stars alongside Aisling Bea, Alice Lowe, and Jayde Adams in Greatest Days, a 2023 cinematic adaptation of Take That's smash-hit stage musical, The Band. Greatest Days portrays a group of school friends reuniting after 25 years. The BFI's review says that Okafor and her co-stars "make the most of the film’s more predictable plotlines and gags". Her other film work includes upcoming UK indie comedy drama Sweet Sue, directed by Leo Leigh. Okafor is also known for her work in radio drama and audiobooks, portraying Kaz in long-running BBC soap The Archers (a rare, brief, occurrence of a BAME character in this rural soap opera). and Zoe in Mark Ravenhill's adaptation of the Dion Boucicault play, The Octoroon, and appearing in Neil Gaiman's podcast series, The Sandman. She starred as Emily McCoy in Tom Stoppard's 2013 radio play, Darkside, based on Pink Floyd's classic album, The Dark Side of the Moon.

Filmography

1

Upon the Edge
2021-09-13

5.1

Sweet Sue
2023-12-22

6.138

Greatest Days
2023-06-16

National Theatre Live: Peter Pan

0

National Theatre Live: Peter Pan
2017-06-10

Calculator: The Only Wise Man

0

Calculator: The Only Wise Man
2003-01-01

The Raft of the Medusa

6.3

The Raft of the Medusa
2015-04-18

3.5

Kicking Off
2015-09-30

6.429

Hamlet
2018-03-31

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

9

National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2018-05-10

National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running

10

National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running
2019-01-15

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

7.5

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015-10-15

6.7

Grace
2021-03-14

7.165

Bodies
2023-10-19

7.066

The Responder
2022-01-24

6.7

The Bill
1984-10-16

4.7

Doctors
2000-03-27

7.158

Des
2020-09-14

4.7

Doctors
2000-03-27

7.439

Vera
2011-05-01

Grandpa in My Pocket

7.5

Grandpa in My Pocket
2009-02-10

7.204

The Split
2018-04-24

7.066

The Responder
2022-01-24

0

Secret Service

7

Black Rabbit
2025-09-18