Sophie Okonedo

Sophie Okonedo is an English film, theatre and television actress. She began her film career in the British coming-of-age drama Young Soul Rebels before appearing in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things. Okonedo's breakthrough performance came in 2004, when she co-starred in the film Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana Rusesabagina, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager and humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed by American actor Don Cheadle. For this role, she became the third black Briton, and second black female Briton to receive an nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 77th Academy Awards in 2005.

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