55 years old (Born on January 01, 1969)
English, Actress; She is famous from Hotel Rwanda.
Has a daughter, Aoife, from a relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin. She is no longer with him. Invited to join AMPAS in 2005. In 2005, Okenedo became the first black actress since Angela Bassett in 1994 to receive an NAACP Image Award nomination for the same role in which she was nominated for an Oscar. Previous Oscar nominees Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Halle Berry and Queen Latifah were not nominated by the NAACP for the same roles. She is of half Nigerian/half European-Jewish heritage, but is a born and raised Brit. She is a graduate of Cambridge University.Sophie Okonedo's Best Moments
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Trained at RADA