Sophie Okonedo
Sophie Okonedo
Sophie Okonedo OBE is a British actress. She received an OBE in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours. Okonedo began her film career in 1991 in the British coming-of-age drama Young Soul Rebels before appearing in Ace Ventura: When Nature Callsand Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Tatiana Rusesabagina in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. She received a Golden Globe nomination for the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermathand BAFTA...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth11 August 1968
When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.
My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.
The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.
I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.
The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.
I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the fame, well - you know what? - you dont actually have to buy into it if you dont want to.