Rakie Ayola
Acting
Born 1968-05-11
Cardiff, Wales, UK
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Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola is a Welsh actress.
She was born in Cardiff in May 1968, to a Sierra Leonean mother and a Nigerian father, and was raised by her mother's cousin and his wife in the Ely district of the city.
She studied at Glan Ely High School, and was a member of the Orbit Youth Theatre, South Glamorgan Youth Theatre, South Glamorgan Youth Choir and the National Youth Theatre of Wales.
She went on to attend the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, studying for a three-year acting diploma. In 2023 Rakie Ayola was the 18th recipient of the prestigious BAFTA Cymru Siân Phillips Award. At the same ceremony she also won the Bafta Cymru Best Actress Award for her performance in BBC1 series The Pact Season 2 on which she was an Executive Producer. In 2021 Rakie Ayola won BAFTA Best Supporting Actress for BBC1 film Anthony by Jimmy McGovern. Ayola has appeared in television shows including Kaos, The Pact Season 1, Grace, Shetland, No Offence, Midsomer Murders, Black Mirror, Noughts + Crosses, Doctor Who, Silent Witness and EastEnders, a number of Shakespearean theatrical performances and feature films such as Been So Long, Now Is Good, Great Moments in Aviation, The i Inside, Dredd, and Sahara. She appeared as Kyla Tyson in the BBC medical drama Holby City from its eighth to eleventh series.
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Filmography
Acting
44 credits
Midsomer Murders
Doctor Who
Black Mirror
Holby City
Vera
Shetland
Screen Two
Ready, Steady, Cook
Waking the Dead
Question Time
Grace
Falling
Alex Rider
Soldier Soldier
KAOS
Dredd
No Offence
Murder in Mind
Sahara
The Pact
Scarlett
Flowers
Maisie Raine
Sea of Souls
Canterbury Tales
Now Is Good
Being April
The I Inside
Code of a Killer
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Saving Lives in Cardiff
Bad Apples
My Almost Famous Family
Hope Is Lost
Under Milk Wood
Been So Long
The Secret Laughter of Women
Great Moments in Aviation
Hedgehog
National Theatre at Home: The Authenticator
Anthony
Mothers, Missiles and the American President
King Lear
Diamond Sky
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Producing
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