Amaka Okafor
Acting
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Biography
Sally Amaka Okafor is a British actress. She is known for her work in theatre, and her roles in the film Greatest Days (2023) as well as the BBC One series The Responder (2022) and the Netflix series Bodies (2023). Okafor was born in Birmingham to a Nigerian reggae artist father and an Indian journalist mother, and moved around the UK growing up. She studied theatre devising at Liverpool John Moores University. She began her career touring community theatre in schools, prisons, and churches, an...
Known For
Filmography
Secret Service
2026
as Imogen Conrad
Black Rabbit
2025
as Roxie
Sweet Sue
2023
as Anita
Greatest Days
2023
as Zoe
Bodies
2023
as Shahara Hasan
The Responder
2022
as DI Deborah Barnes
The Responder
2022
as Debs
Upon the Edge
2021
as Zara
Grace
2021
as DC Emma Jane Boutwood
Des
2020
as Emily
National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running
2019
as Meredith Ikeji
Hamlet
2018
as Guildenstern
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2018
as Lady Macduff
The Split
2018
as Chloe
National Theatre Live: Peter Pan
2017
as Jane
The Raft of the Medusa
2015
as Bella
Kicking Off
2015
as Caroline
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015
as Stage Manager / Official
Vera
2011
as Laura Whitelock
Grandpa in My Pocket
2009
as Jasmine
Calculator: The Only Wise Man
2003
Doctors
2000
as Petra Keane
Doctors
2000
as Brianna Quinn
The Bill
1984
as Ola Seeiso