Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́

Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́ was born in Hackney and raised in Barking, London. She is of Nigerian Yoruba ancestry. Adékọluẹ́jọ́ was a pupil at Jo Richardson Community School, where she excelled in Drama, achieving one of the national top 10 highest grades in the subject at GCSE. Adékọluẹ́jọ́ studied acting for three years from 2010 at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), in London, graduating in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in acting (H Level). ==Theatre==

Adékọluẹ́jọ́ crafted her acting skills on the theatre stage, in productions such as Pride and Prejudice, at the Sheffield Crucible (2015), The Mountaintop at the Young Vic (2016), and Twelfth Night at the Filter Theatre in Hammersmith (2016). and was nominated for best classical stage performances by actors under the age of 30 at the Ian Charleson Awards. She won 'Best Performance Piece' for this work, at The Offies in 2022. Her performance earned a nomination at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actress. ==Film and television==

From 2014, Adékọluẹ́jọ́ had some single-episode appearances in TV series until starring in series 10 of Doctor Who, when she played Penny in both "Extremis" and "The Pyramid at the End of the World", alongside Peter Capaldi (the Twelfth Doctor) and his companion Pearl Mackie. Adékọluẹ́jọ́ starred as Demi-Lea Sadler in the "Nadia Cavelle" short film Lascivious Grace, which premiered at the Underwire Film festival 2017 and was an official film selection for the Bermuda International Film Festival 2018. Adékọluẹ́jọ́ was nominated for best actor at Underwire Film Festival 2017 for her performance in the short film Lascivious Grace. In 2019, Adékọluẹ́jọ́ landed a main role in the Amazon Prime teenage spy thriller television series Alex Rider as Jack Starbright, Alex Rider's American primary carer and mentor. In 2021, Adékọluẹ́jọ́ played Ṣadé in the pilot of the Channel 4 television production Big Age. ==Filmography==

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