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

• 2027The Great Beyond
• 2026Clarissa — Clarissa, Executive Producer
• 2026Mouse — Helen Bell
• 2026The Scarecrows' Wedding — Narrator (voice)
• 202410 Lives — Grace (voice)
• 2024Janet Planet — Regina
• 2024The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout — Narrator
• 2023Heart of Stone — Nomad
• 2022Catherine Called Birdy — Ethelfritha Rose Splinter of Devon
• 2022Charlotte — Ottilie Moore (voice)
• 2022Death on the Nile — Salome Otterbourne
• 2022Raymond & Ray — Kiera
• 2022Running With The Beest
• Slow Horses — Ingrid Tearney
• 2021Escaping Eritrea — Narrator
• 2021Laika
• The Wheel of Time — Siuan Sanche
• Alien Worlds — Narrator (voice)
• Ratched — Charlotte Wells
• Chimerica — Tessa Kendrick
• Criminal: UK — Julia Bryce
• Flack — Caroline
• 2019Hellboy — Lady Hatton
• His Dark Materials — Xaphania (voice)
• Modern Love — Elizabeth Cannon
• 2019Wild Rose — Susannah
• 2018Christopher Robin — Kanga (voice)
• Explained — Narrator (voice)
• 2018National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra — Cleopatra
• Wanderlust — Angela Bowden
• 2017Concorde: A Supersonic Story — Narrator (voice)
• 2016The Good Terrorist — Narrator (voice)
• Undercover — Maya Cobbina
• 2016Wimbledon Official Film 2016 — Narrator
• Earth's Natural Wonders — Narrator
• 2015The Stranger on the Bridge — Narrator
• 2015War Book — Philippa
• Inside No. 9 — Katrina
• 2013After Earth — Faia Raige
• Mayday — Fiona Hill
• The Escape Artist — Maggie Gardner
• The Hollow Crown — Margaret
• The Slap — Aisha
• 2010Mrs Mandela — Winnie Mandela
• Father & Son — Connie Turner
• 2009Return to Africa's Witch Children — Narrator
• 2009Skin — Sandra Laing
• Criminal Justice — Jackie Woolf
• 2008Saving Africa's Witch Children — Narrator
• 2008The Secret Life of Bees — May Boatwright
• 2007Celebration — Sonia
• 2007Martian Child — Sophie
• Oliver Twist — Nancy
• Racism: A History — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Scenes of a Sexual Nature — Anna
• 2006Stormbreaker — Mrs Jones
• Tsunami: The Aftermath — Susie Carter
• 2005Born With Two Mothers — Lucretia Bridges
• Doctor Who — Liz 10
• 2005Æon Flux — Sithandra
• 2004Hotel Rwanda — Tatiana Rusesabagina
• This World
• 2004Whose Baby? — Karen Jenkins
• 2003Alibi — Marcey Burgess
• Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka — Alison Cheney (voice)
• 2003Doctor Who: The Scream of the Shalka — Alison Cheney
• 2002Dead Casual — Donna
• 2002Dirty Pretty Things — Juliette
• Spooks — Amanda Roke
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Eve Bowen
• Sweet Revenge — Ellen Lewis
• In Defence — Bernie Kramer
• Never Never — Jo Weller
• 2000Peaches — Pippa
• 1999Mad Cows — Rosie
• 1999This Year's Love — Denise
• 1997The Jackal — Jamaican Girl
• 1996Deep Secrets — Honey
• Staying Alive — Kelly Booth
• 1995Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls — The Wachati Princess
• 1995Go Now — Paula
• The Governor — Moira Levitt
• 1993Age of Treason — Niobe
• 1993Maria's Child — Melanie
• 1992Mad Bad Mortal Beings — Cait
• 1991Miss Queencake
• Murder Most Horrid — Rachel
• 1991Young Soul Rebels — Tracy
• Dispatches
• Casualty — Gina Russell
• Screen Two — Melanie
• The Bill
• Frontline — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (10)

• Civilisations: Rise and Fall — Self - Narrator
• 2024Flight of the Swans — Self - Narrator
• Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty — Self - Narrator
• 2023The Ghastly Ghoul — Self (voice)
• Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• GMTV — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee
• The Oscars — Self