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lalasticlala(m): 8:53am On Aug 11, 2020
Sophie Okonedo Turns 52 Today

Sophie Okonedo CBE (born 11 August 1968) is a British film, singer, narrator, theatre and television actress. She began her film career in the British coming-of-age drama Young Soul Rebels (1991) before appearing in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things (2002).

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 second black female Briton to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best ing Actress at the 77th Academy Awards in 2005. She later received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006) and BAFTA TV Award nominations for the drama series Criminal Justice (2009) and the television film Mrs. Mandela (2010). Her other film roles include Æon Flux (2005), Skin (2008), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), and Christopher Robin (2018).

On stage, Okonedo starred as Cressida in the 1999 Royal National Theatre production of Troilus and Cressida. She made her Broadway debut in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun and received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Ruth Younger.

Okonedo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours.

Personal life

Okonedo has one daughter, from a previous relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin, and lives in Muswell Hill, London. On her heritage, Okonedo says, "I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black" and calls her daughter an "Irish, Nigerian Jew".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Okonedo

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Kriss216: 8:55am On Aug 11, 2020
Happy birthday ma'am. 52 look good on you.


At 52, she's more gorgeous and elegant than 99.8999% of Nairaland vagina people.

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NewDelhi(m): 9:09am On Aug 11, 2020
The girl **** go acomodate wella. Slim girls are naturally like that.

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Slawormir: 9:10am On Aug 11, 2020
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Happy birthday

Edo girls are just too beautiful

Most of them are petite......slim and beautiful

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MANNABBQGRILLS: 9:10am On Aug 11, 2020
From all of us @: HAPPY Birthday and many happy returns Beautiful Sophie Okonedo.

52 looking 25 kiss kiss

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chukwugoziegi: 9:11am On Aug 11, 2020
She's so beautiful and aging well. Doesn't even look 40 how much more 52.

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awelola: 9:11am On Aug 11, 2020
Happy birthday...you're looking takeaway i must confess
Jireg98368: 9:12am On Aug 11, 2020
Good morning
deedeemob(m): 9:12am On Aug 11, 2020
Looking radiant at 52. Great performance in hotel Rwanda.

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gender123: 9:12am On Aug 11, 2020
Happy Birthday ma'am ever young shocked

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BuhariNaWah: 9:12am On Aug 11, 2020
Indomie children, how market?
Luckysbab: 9:13am On Aug 11, 2020
Okonedo? lipsrsealed

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money121(m): 9:13am On Aug 11, 2020
Ok
omooba969(m): 9:14am On Aug 11, 2020
@52, looks younger than most.
superCleanworks(m): 9:14am On Aug 11, 2020
Always Beautiful
martineverest(m): 9:14am On Aug 11, 2020
OkhaiAsein:
I know Nadia Buhari and Juliet Ibrahim
me ah no know this one oo. I know
Meanwhile I'll design a brand logo and flyers for your business at affordable price
she is a Hollywood actress...she is not in the league of local actresses like Juliet

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Luckysbab: 9:14am On Aug 11, 2020
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From all of us @: HAPPY Birthday and many happy returns Beautiful Sophie Okonedo.

52 looking 25 kiss kiss

Who asked you?!

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OkhaiAsein(m): 9:15am On Aug 11, 2020
martineverest:
she is a Hollywood actress...she is not in the league of local actresses like Juliet
no wonder she is not known. I'm sure nobody in Nigeria cares
martineverest(m): 9:16am On Aug 11, 2020
donstan18:
IGBO AMAKA



Ya kpotuba!
okonede is an Edo name.....Esan to be precise

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MANNABBQGRILLS: 9:16am On Aug 11, 2020
Luckysbab:

Who asked you?!
If we answer you and tell you the main person close to you that asked us now, some people go dey vex, dey shine dem eyeball shocked

Una no go ever siddon jejely for una mat for una village sha. Na so so trouble una go dey find Ugandan.
Better get busy with life and make momsy proud of you for once...kiddo! tongue

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Re: Sophie Okonedo Celebrates Her 52nd Birthday Today by Nobody: 9:17am On Aug 11, 2020
OkhaiAsein:
I know Nadia Buhari and Juliet Ibrahim
me ah no know this one oo. I know
Meanwhile I'll design a brand logo and flyers for your business at affordable price

She is popular in the British acting scene. Not Nollywood.

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Temitope009(f): 9:18am On Aug 11, 2020
Happy birthday
vasco01(m): 9:20am On Aug 11, 2020
God bless me with a wife as this woman
At 52 still looking young like 22 unlike our now so call lady's at 22 but looking like 42

God bless your coming age ahead of you ma'am
I wish to marry your seed

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