Sophie Okonedo
Acting • Born 1968-08-11
Biography
Sophie Okonedo, OBE (born 1968) is a British actress and singer, who has starred in both successful British and American productions. In 1991, she made her acting debut in the British critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, Young Soul Rebels. In 2004, she gained critical acclaim for her role as Tatiana Rusesabagina, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel Rwanda (2004). Her role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sophie Okonedo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
98 credits
Hotel Rwanda
Movie • 2004
Tatiana Rusesabagina
Dirty Pretty Things
Movie • 2002
Juliette
The Jackal
Movie • 1997
Jamaican Girl
Martian Child
Movie • 2007
Sophie
Born With Two Mothers
Movie • 2005
Lucretia Bridges
Miss Queencake
Movie • 1991
Laika
Movie • 2021
Æon Flux
Movie • 2005
Sithandra
Young Soul Rebels
Movie • 1991
Tracy
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Movie • 1995
The Wachati Princess
The Secret Life of Bees
Movie • 2008
May Boatwright
Stormbreaker
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Jones
Return to Africa's Witch Children
Movie • 2009
Narrator
Skin
Movie • 2009
Sandra Laing
Mad Bad Mortal Beings
Movie • 1992
Cait
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Movie • 2006
Anna
Alibi
Movie • 2003
Marcey Burgess
After Earth
Movie • 2013
Faia Raige
Dead Casual
Movie • 2002
Donna
Raymond & Ray
Movie • 2022
Kiera
Mrs Mandela
Movie • 2010
Winnie Mandela
Maria's Child
Movie • 1993
Melanie
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Movie • 2024
Narrator
War Book
Movie • 2015
Philippa
Go Now
Movie • 1995
Paula
Heart of Stone
Movie • 2023
Nomad
Catherine Called Birdy
Movie • 2022
Ethelfritha Rose Splinter of Devon
Whose Baby?
Movie • 2004
Karen Jenkins
Running With The Beest
Movie • 2022
10 Lives
Movie • 2024
Grace (voice)
Janet Planet
Movie • 2024
Regina
The Stranger on the Bridge
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Celebration
Movie • 2007
Sonia
The Good Terrorist
Movie • 2016
Narrator (voice)
Saving Africa's Witch Children
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Wild Rose
Movie • 2019
Susannah
Concorde: A Supersonic Story
Movie • 2017
Narrator (voice)
Hellboy
Movie • 2019
Lady Hatton
This Year's Love
Movie • 1999
Denise
Christopher Robin
Movie • 2018
Kanga (voice)
Mad Cows
Movie • 1999
Rosie
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Movie • 2018
Cleopatra
Wimbledon Official Film 2016
Movie • 2016
Narrator
Death on the Nile
Movie • 2022
Salome Otterbourne
Deep Secrets
Movie • 1996
Honey
Age of Treason
Movie • 1993
Niobe
Peaches
Movie • 2000
Pippa
Escaping Eritrea
Movie • 2021
Narrator
Charlotte
Movie • 2022
Ottilie Moore (voice)
Mouse
Movie • 2026
Helen Bell
The Scarecrows' Wedding
Movie • 2026
Narrator (voice)
Flight of the Swans
Movie • 2024
Self - Narrator
The Ghastly Ghoul
Movie • 2023
Self (voice)
The Great Beyond
Movie • 2026
Clarissa
Movie
Clarissa
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Rachel
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
TV • 2002
Eve Bowen
The Bill
TV • 1984
Spooks
TV • 2002
Amanda Roke
Criminal Justice
TV • 2008
Jackie Woolf
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Oliver Twist
TV • 2007
Nancy
Frontline
TV • 1983
Narrator
Father & Son
TV • 2009
Connie Turner
The Governor
TV • 1995
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Liz 10
The Slap
TV • 2011
Aisha
Modern Love
TV • 2019
Elizabeth Cannon
Explained
TV • 2018
Narrator (voice)
Mayday
TV • 2013
Fiona Hill
Sweet Revenge
TV • 2001
Ellen Lewis
Undercover
TV • 2016
Maya Cobbina
In Defence
TV • 2000
Bernie Kramer
The Wheel of Time
TV • 2021
Siuan Sanche
Casualty
TV • 1986
Gina Russell
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
TV • 2003
Alison Cheney (voice)
Never Never
TV • 2000
Jo Weller
Slow Horses
TV • 2022
Ingrid Tearney
This World
TV • 2004
Racism: A History
TV • 2007
Narrator (voice)
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Katrina
Tsunami: The Aftermath
TV • 2006
Susie Carter
Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise
TV • 2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
Flack
TV • 2019
Caroline
Chimerica
TV • 2019
Tessa Kendrick
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Margaret
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Criminal: UK
TV • 2019
Julia Bryce
Alien Worlds
TV • 2020
Narrator (voice)
The Escape Artist
TV • 2013
Maggie Gardner
His Dark Materials
TV • 2019
Xaphania (voice)
Ratched
TV • 2020
Charlotte Wells
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
TV • 2024
Self - Narrator
Civilisations: Rise and Fall
TV • 2025
Self - Narrator
Dispatches
TV • 1987
Earth's Natural Wonders
TV • 2015
Narrator