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Sophie Okonedo OBE (born 11 August 1968) is a British actress. She received an OBE in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours. Okonedo began her film career in 1991 in the British coming-of-age drama Young Soul Rebels before appearing in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things (2002). She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Tatiana Rusesabagina in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. She received a Golden Globe nomination for the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006) and BAFTA TV Award nominations for the drama series Criminal Justice (2009) and the TV film Mrs. Mandela (2010). Her other film roles include Æon Flux (2005), Skin (2008) and The Secret Life of Bees (2008).
On stage, she starred as Cressida in the 1999 National Theatre production of Troilus and Cressida. She made her Broadway debut in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun and received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Ruth Younger.
Sophie Okonedo received a 2014 Tony Award for her performance in "A Raisin in the Sun" - Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Sunday June 8th 8/7c on CBS. Broadway: Where Stars Align http://tonyawards.com/
Programme website: http://bbc.in/1T38n6X Queen Margaret (Sophie Okonedo) questions whether Henry VI (Tom Sturridge) needs a protector to govern for himself, ending in an angry power struggle with the Duchess of Gloucester (Sally Hawkins).
Remembering World War 1 Some of Britain's finest actors read poetry from World War I http://www.channel4.com/programmes/remembering-world-war-i/4od
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) can’t shake off his recent discovery and goes back to investigate. For more Dirty Pretty Things: http://miram.ax/dirtyprettythings In this scene: Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Juliette (Sophie Okonedo) About Dirty Pretty Things: Undocumented immigrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night, Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder, setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster - or freedom. Starring, in alphabetical order: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okonedo, Audrey Tautou, Benedict Wong Connect with Dirty Pretty Things: Visit the Dirty Pretty Things WEBSITE: http://miram.ax/DirtyPrettyThings Like Dirty Pretty Things on FACEBOOK: http://miram.ax/DirtyPrettyThingsFB Buy Dirty Pre...
Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? will play a strictly limited 12 week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 24 March to 24 June 2017. In the play, a husband and successful New York architect with everything to lose must confess to his wife and son that he is having an affair and face the dizzying, explosive consequences.
The talented actresses share their excitement about working on this significant stage show now running on Broadway.
A dark skinned girl born to white South African parents attempts to explore her identity in the era of apartheid as her government, her parents, and society as a whole struggle with what it means to be a black child of Caucasian descent in a nation deeply divided by race. The year is 1955. Sandra Laing, Sophie Okonedo, has just been born to a pair of white Afrikaner parents, her brown skin and curly hair the surprising result of genetic throwback. As the government's rigid apartheid system struggles with whether to classify Sandra as white or black, the young girl and her parents gradually realize that the complications they face due to her appearance run deep and wide. MPAA Rating: PG-13 Skin Films Limited and Moonlighting Skin Productions,Pty, Ltd 2008
The talented actresses share their excitement about working on this significant stage show now running on Broadway.
Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? will play a strictly limited 12 week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 24 March to 24 June 2017. In the play, a husband and successful New York architect with everything to lose must confess to his wife and son that he is having an affair and face the dizzying, explosive consequences.
Sophie Okonedo at 2016 Tony Awards. To see all the attendees and photos from this event go to: http://getfirstlook.com For breaking photo updates get our iOS app: http://bit.ly/GetFirstLook Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/GetFirstLook Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/GetFirstLook Style & Fashion News: http://twitter.com/FirstLookStyle Film & TV News: http://twitter.com/FirstLookTVFILM ALL THINGS CELEB LIVE STREAMING DAILY: http://twitter.com/FirstLookLIVE
Sophie Okonedo and James Harkness have been cast in the new comedy-drama 'Country Music'. The Tony Award-winning actress Okonedo, 48, and Harkness join 'Taboo' star Jessie Buckley and 'Harry Potter' actress Dame Julie Walters in the comedy-drama produced by Faye Ward, Deadline reports. Helmed by 'Peaky Blinders' director Tom Harper, the film follows the story of Rose-Lynn Harlan (Buckley) who wants to get out of Glasgow after having left prison and make it as a country singer in Nashville. The script will be penned by 'The C Word' screenwriter Nicole Taylor and the director teased that it is "full of energy". http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/movie-news/sophie-okonedo-james-harkness-join-country-music-film-1073363.html?f=rss http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit Ent...
Get tickets to THE CRUCIBLE: http://www.broadway.com/shows/crucible/ Paul Wontorek reports on the return of THE CRUCIBLE.
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) can’t shake off his recent discovery and goes back to investigate. For more Dirty Pretty Things: http://miram.ax/dirtyprettythings In this scene: Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Juliette (Sophie Okonedo) About Dirty Pretty Things: Undocumented immigrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night, Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder, setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster - or freedom. Starring, in alphabetical order: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okonedo, Audrey Tautou, Benedict Wong Connect with Dirty Pretty Things: Visit the Dirty Pretty Things WEBSITE: http://miram.ax/DirtyPrettyThings Like Dirty Pretty Things on FACEBOOK: http://miram.ax/DirtyPrettyThingsFB Buy Dirty Pre...
http://www.playbill.com/video Kenny Leon was speaking to the press after winning a 2014 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play when it just so happened that his "Raisin" cast member Sophie Okonedo was declared a winner for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Watch Leon's priceless reaction and Okonedo's press room session.
Remembering World War 1 Some of Britain's finest actors read poetry from World War I http://www.channel4.com/programmes/remembering-world-war-i/4od
After the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special OperationsDivision of Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6, for a mission which will save millions of lives.
Hotel Rwanda (2004) Movie ** Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
https://youtu.be/czKit7bjbPE Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix
Hotel Rwanda 2004 Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix
A conversation with the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
We focus on the new Broadway production of "Arthur Miller's The Crucible" (nominated for a Best Revival of a Play TONY Award). Our guests are TONY-nominated director Ivo van Hove with actors Sophie Okonedo (nominated as Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Elizabeth Proctor) and Ben Whishaw who plays her husband, the man whose adulterous affair with a teenager sets the gruesome events of the play in motion. Van Hove and his cast members discuss the director's unique take on this classic American drama and how they worked together to give Arthur Miller's tale of the mass hysteria and brutal injustice during the Salem witch trials, renewed life on Broadway. Taped: 03-25-16 Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is c...
Filmed with iPhone 6S British director Dominic Cooke was Artistic Director of the Royal Court theatre in 2007-13, staging world-reaching plays like 'Enron', 'That Face', 'Jerusalem', 'Posh' & 'Constellations'. He has directed award-winning plays at the Donmar Warehouse and National Theatre in addition. With the writer & director Kinvara Balfour, he discusses his career to date with a focus on the much-awaited BBC2 series 'The Hollow Crown' which he recently directed for television, produced by Sam Mendes & his team at Neal Street Productions, & starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Sturridge, Sophie Okonedo, Hugh Bonneville & Dame Judi Dench. Filmed with iPhone 6S Edited by Gabriel Geer Kinvara wears dress by Burberry, boots by Jimmy Choo
Hotel Rwanda (Don Cheadle) Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
Based on http://20hotelfilm.blogspot.com/0395169 real life events in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to rescue his fellow citizens from the ravages of the Rwandan Genocide. Sophie Okonedo and Nick Nolte also appear in principal roles.
We go for a 1-on-1 exclusive interview with actress Sophie Okonedo to talk about The Secret Life of Bees. For more movie trailers, movie reviews, celebrity interviews, full movies, clips and more, go to: http://www.movieweb.com Connect with other movie fans on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MovieWeb Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MovieWeb
Tony-nominated actresses LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose and Sophie Okonedo discuss their backgrounds in the theater and many other engaging topics. This segment is an online extra, not aired in our broadcast PBS interview with the trio of stars.
Sophie Okonedo on the Broadway revival of 'The Crucible,' which has earned her a Tony nomination Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Get updates and more Breaking News here: http://smarturl.it/APBreakingNews The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. AP’s commitment to independent, comprehensive journalism has deep roots. Founded in 1846, AP has covered all the major news events of the past 165 years, providing high-quality, informed reporting of everything from wars and elections to championship games and royal weddings. AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. Today, AP employs the latest technology...
Sophie Okonedo received a 2014 Tony Award for her performance in "A Raisin in the Sun" - Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Sunday June 8th 8/7c on CBS. Broadway: Where Stars Align http://tonyawards.com/
A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an unstoppable alien creature that escaped during the crash. Father and son must learn to work together and trust one another if they want any chance of returning home. http://bit.ly/flicks-movie-trailers - Subscribe for the latest movie trailers, previews, clips & exclusives! http://bit.ly/movie-interviews-tv - Subscribe for movie interviews & shows! http://FlicksAndTheCity.com - Visit Flicks and the City! http://facebook.com/FlicksAndT...
http://toppixautographs.com Sophie Okonedo is seen signing autographs at the Theater Desk Awards in New York City. For authentic autographed memorabilia of Sophie Okonedo and many other celebrities, check out TopPix Autographs at http://toppixautographs.com
BBC AMERICA’s Undercover is a new political thriller told through a family on the brink of destruction. From BAFTA-winning screenwriter Peter Moffat (The Night Of, Criminal Justice), the six-part series follows Maya Cobbina (Sophie Okonedo), a spirited and passionate barrister (lawyer), who is about to become the first black Director of Public Prosecutions – the highest-ranking public prosecutor role in England. But just as Maya’s life comes under intense public scrutiny, she discovers that Nick (Adrian Lester), her husband and the father of her children, has been lying to her for years. His web of lies threatens to destroy not only her career (and the twenty-year-long case she’s based it all on), but also the life she and Nick built together. Starring Academy Award nominee Sophie Okone...
Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? will play a strictly limited 12 week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 24 March to 24 June 2017. In the play, a husband and successful New York architect with everything to lose must confess to his wife and son that he is having an affair and face the dizzying, explosive consequences.
Sophie Okonedo received a 2014 Tony Award for her performance in "A Raisin in the Sun" - Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Sunday June 8th 8/7c on CBS. Broadway: Where Stars Align http://tonyawards.com/
Programme website: http://bbc.in/1T38n6X Queen Margaret (Sophie Okonedo) questions whether Henry VI (Tom Sturridge) needs a protector to govern for himself, ending in an angry power struggle with the Duchess of Gloucester (Sally Hawkins).
Remembering World War 1 Some of Britain's finest actors read poetry from World War I http://www.channel4.com/programmes/remembering-world-war-i/4od
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) can’t shake off his recent discovery and goes back to investigate. For more Dirty Pretty Things: http://miram.ax/dirtyprettythings In this scene: Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Juliette (Sophie Okonedo) About Dirty Pretty Things: Undocumented immigrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night, Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder, setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster - or freedom. Starring, in alphabetical order: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okonedo, Audrey Tautou, Benedict Wong Connect with Dirty Pretty Things: Visit the Dirty Pretty Things WEBSITE: http://miram.ax/DirtyPrettyThings Like Dirty Pretty Things on FACEBOOK: http://miram.ax/DirtyPrettyThingsFB Buy Dirty Pre...
Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? will play a strictly limited 12 week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 24 March to 24 June 2017. In the play, a husband and successful New York architect with everything to lose must confess to his wife and son that he is having an affair and face the dizzying, explosive consequences.
The talented actresses share their excitement about working on this significant stage show now running on Broadway.
A dark skinned girl born to white South African parents attempts to explore her identity in the era of apartheid as her government, her parents, and society as a whole struggle with what it means to be a black child of Caucasian descent in a nation deeply divided by race. The year is 1955. Sandra Laing, Sophie Okonedo, has just been born to a pair of white Afrikaner parents, her brown skin and curly hair the surprising result of genetic throwback. As the government's rigid apartheid system struggles with whether to classify Sandra as white or black, the young girl and her parents gradually realize that the complications they face due to her appearance run deep and wide. MPAA Rating: PG-13 Skin Films Limited and Moonlighting Skin Productions,Pty, Ltd 2008
After the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special OperationsDivision of Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6, for a mission which will save millions of lives.
Hotel Rwanda (2004) Movie ** Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
https://youtu.be/czKit7bjbPE Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix
Hotel Rwanda 2004 Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix
A conversation with the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
We focus on the new Broadway production of "Arthur Miller's The Crucible" (nominated for a Best Revival of a Play TONY Award). Our guests are TONY-nominated director Ivo van Hove with actors Sophie Okonedo (nominated as Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Elizabeth Proctor) and Ben Whishaw who plays her husband, the man whose adulterous affair with a teenager sets the gruesome events of the play in motion. Van Hove and his cast members discuss the director's unique take on this classic American drama and how they worked together to give Arthur Miller's tale of the mass hysteria and brutal injustice during the Salem witch trials, renewed life on Broadway. Taped: 03-25-16 Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is c...
Filmed with iPhone 6S British director Dominic Cooke was Artistic Director of the Royal Court theatre in 2007-13, staging world-reaching plays like 'Enron', 'That Face', 'Jerusalem', 'Posh' & 'Constellations'. He has directed award-winning plays at the Donmar Warehouse and National Theatre in addition. With the writer & director Kinvara Balfour, he discusses his career to date with a focus on the much-awaited BBC2 series 'The Hollow Crown' which he recently directed for television, produced by Sam Mendes & his team at Neal Street Productions, & starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Sturridge, Sophie Okonedo, Hugh Bonneville & Dame Judi Dench. Filmed with iPhone 6S Edited by Gabriel Geer Kinvara wears dress by Burberry, boots by Jimmy Choo
Hotel Rwanda (Don Cheadle) Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
Based on http://20hotelfilm.blogspot.com/0395169 real life events in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to rescue his fellow citizens from the ravages of the Rwandan Genocide. Sophie Okonedo and Nick Nolte also appear in principal roles.