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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 11, 1968
Place of Birth
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Also Known As
- Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola
Rakie Ayola
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Biography
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.
Known For
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Sylvia
Bad Apples
2026
7.2
Persephone
KAOS
2024
0.0
Self - Narrator
Saving Lives in Cardiff
2024
0.0
Narrator
Mothers, Missiles and the American President
2021
7.1
DS Holland
The Pact
2021
7.1
Christine Rees
The Pact
2021
6.7
ACC Alison Vosper
Grace
2021
7.8
Jo Byrne
Alex Rider
2020
6.0
Gee Walker
Anthony
2020
6.6
Camilla
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
Credits
Bad Apples
as Sylvia
2026
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KAOS
as Persephone
2024
7.2
Saving Lives in Cardiff
as Self - Narrator
2024
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Mothers, Missiles and the American President
as Narrator
2021
0.0
The Pact
as DS Holland
2021
7.1
The Pact
as Christine Rees
2021
7.1
Grace
as ACC Alison Vosper
2021
6.7
Alex Rider
as Jo Byrne
2020
7.8
Anthony
as Gee Walker
2020
6.0
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Camilla
2019
6.6
Been So Long
as Martina
2018
5.6
King Lear
as Goneril
2016
8.0
Flowers
as Morag
2016
7.3
Code of a Killer
as Helena Adarkwa
2015
7.4
Under Milk Wood
as Voice
2014
6.0
Shetland
as Olivia Lennox
2013
7.5
Now Is Good
as Phillippa
2012
7.3
Dredd
as Chief Judge
2012
6.9
Black Mirror
as Shelly
2011
8.3
Vera
as Amber Haleford
2011
7.4
🎬
My Almost Famous Family
as Shalondra
2009
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Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
2008
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Sahara
as Mrs. Nwokolo
2005
5.9
Doctor Who
as Hostess
2005
7.6
The I Inside
as Nurse Clayton
2004
5.9
Sea of Souls
as Yemi
2004
7.6
Canterbury Tales
as Nicky Constable
2003
6.9
Being April
as Taneshia
2002
4.5
Waking the Dead
as Pauline
2001
7.2
Murder in Mind
as Cally
2001
8.4
The Secret Laughter of Women
as Talking Drum
1999
4.7
Holby City
as Kyla Tyson
1999
5.8
Maisie Raine
as D.C. Helen Tomlin
1998
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Midsomer Murders
as Alice Winning
1997
7.5
Scarlett
as Pansy
1994
6.5
Ready, Steady, Cook
as Self - Guest
1994
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Great Moments in Aviation
as Gabriel Angel
1994
4.6
🎬
Nightshift
1993
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Soldier Soldier
as Bernie Roberts
1991
6.6
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
1979
5.5
🎬
Black Church Bay
N/A
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Hope Is Lost
as Hope
N/A
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Hedgehog
as Consultant
N/A
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