Sophie Okonedo Biography
Sophie Okonedo CBE is an English narrator and actor. She was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 and as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2019. Okonedo holds a Tony Award and has been nominated for several other accolades.
How old is Sophie Okonedo? – Age
She is 55 years old as of 11 August 2023. She was born in 1968 in London, United Kingdom.
Sophie Okonedo Family – Education
Okonedo was born as the daughter of Joan (née Allman), a Jewish Pilates instructor from London’s East End, and Henry Okonedo, a British Nigerian government employee. Okonedo’s Yiddish-speaking maternal ancestors came from households that moved from Poland and Russia. Okonedo was nurtured in the Jewish faith of her mother.
Sophie Okonedo Husband
Okonedo lives in Muswell Hill, London, with her daughter from a relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin. Okonedo is married to Jamie Chalmers, a builder, and the stepmother to his two children as of 2023.
Sophie Okonedo Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $7 Million.
Sophie Okonedo Flack
She appeared as Caroline, Head of Mills Paulson in the British dramedy television series Flack. Robyn, an American public relations executive residing in London, must figure out how to make the best of a bad situation and escape unscathed. Robyn specializes in cleaning up the massive messes left by her careless and selfish clients. Although she is completely in control of her job, her personal life is out of control.
Sophie Okonedo His Dark Materials
She appeared as Sandra Laing in the 2008 biographical drama film Skin. Sandra Laing, 10, lives in a remote part of the Eastern Transvaal with her white Afrikaner parents, Abraham and Sannie, in 1965. She is taken to Piet Retief boarding school, where she is categorized as colored and expelled. This story creates an international sensation, causing the law to be changed so that Sandra is legally recognized as white. Sandra falls in love with Petrus, a young black man, when she is 17, and they begin an unlawful love affair.
Sannie is torn between her husband’s fury and her daughter’s plight when Abraham threatens to shoot Petrus and disown Sandra. Sandra flees to Swaziland with Petrus, but is apprehended and imprisoned. Sandra returns to Petrus when pregnant, and her father disowns her. She strives to locate her parents and raises her children on her own. Sandra’s mother learns of her father’s death after apartheid is abolished and reunites with her. According to the epilogue, her mother died in 2001, and her brothers still refuse to see her or her family.
Sophie Okonedo His Dark Materials
She voiced Xaphania in the fantasy drama television series His Dark Materials. His Dark Materials is a multi-world series based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy that takes place in an alternate universe in which individuals’ souls appear as animal companions known as daemons. The series follows Lyra, an orphan who lives with scholars at Jordan College in Oxford in a world ruled by the Magisterium. Lyra uncovers a perilous secret involving Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter and becomes the subject of a witches’ prophecy that will change the world. She also discovers a string of kidnappings and a connection to a mysterious substance known as Dust, which leads her on an epic trip to other realms. The witches’ prophecy also connects Lyra’s fate to Will Parry, a typical teenager being hunted by entities related to his long-lost father.
Sophie Okonedo Movies
♦ 2023 – Heart of Stone
♦ 2023 – Janet Planet
♦ 2022 – Death on the Nile
♦ 2022 – Catherine Called Birdy
♦ 2022 – Raymond & Ray
♦ 2019 – Hellboy
♦ 2018 – Christopher Robin
♦ 2018 – Wild Rose
♦ 2014 – War Book
♦ 2013 – After Earth
♦ 2008 – The Secret Life of Bees
♦ 2008 – Skin
♦ 2007 – Martian Child
♦ 2006 – Stormbreaker
Sophie Okonedo TV Shows
♦ 2022 – Slow Horses
♦ 2022 – Inside No. 9
♦ 2021 – Modern Love
♦ 2021 – Britannia
♦ 2021 – The Wheel of Time
♦ 2020 – Criminal: UK
♦ 2020 – Ratched
♦ 2020 – His Dark Materials
♦ 2020 – Alien Worlds
♦ 2019–2020 – Flack
♦ 2019 – Chimerica
♦ 2018 – Wanderlust
♦ 2017 – Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise
♦ 2017 – Concorde: A Supersonic Story
♦ 2016 – Undercover
♦ 2016 – The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
♦ 2015 – The Stranger on the Bridge
♦ 2013 – Mayday