Rakie Ayola
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Acting Credits
Biography
Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola is a Welsh actress. She was born in Cardiff in May 1968, to a Sierra Leonean mother and a Nigerian father, and was raised by her mother's cousin and his wife in the Ely district of the city. She studied at Glan Ely High School, and was a member of the Orbit Youth Theatre, South Glamorgan Youth Theatre, South Glamorgan Youth Choir and the National Youth Theatre of Wales. She went on to attend the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, studying for a three-year acting...
Known For
Filmography
Bad Apples
2026
as Sylvia
Black Church Bay
2026
as Mrs Munroe
National Theatre Live: The Authenticator
2026
as Abi
Falling
2026
as Muriel
Hope Is Lost
2025
as Hope (voice)
Diamond Sky
2025
as Suzzane Kirk
Hedgehog
2024
as Consultant
Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
2024
as Registrar
Saving Lives in Cardiff
2024
as Self - Narrator
KAOS
2024
as Persephone
Mothers, Missiles and the American President
2021
as Narrator
Grace
2021
as ACC Alison Vosper
The Pact
2021
as DS Holland
The Pact
2021
as Christine Rees
Anthony
2020
as Gee Walker
Alex Rider
2020
as Jo Byrne
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
as Camilla
Been So Long
2018
as Martina
King Lear
2016
as Goneril
Flowers
2016
as Morag
Code of a Killer
2015
as Helena Adarkwa
No Offence
2015
as Nora Attah
Under Milk Wood
2014
as Voice
Shetland
2013
as Olivia Lennox
Dredd
2012
as Chief Judge
Now Is Good
2012
as Phillippa
Black Mirror
2011
as Shelly
Vera
2011
as Amber Haleford
My Almost Famous Family
2009
as Shalondra
Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
2008
Sahara
2005
as Mrs. Nwokolo
Doctor Who
2005
as Hostess
The I Inside
2004
as Nurse Clayton
Sea of Souls
2004
as Yemi
Canterbury Tales
2003
as Nicky Constable
Being April
2002
as Taneshia
Waking the Dead
2001
as Pauline
Murder in Mind
2001
as Cally
The Secret Laughter of Women
1999
as Talking Drum
Holby City
1999
as Kyla Tyson
Maisie Raine
1998
as D.C. Helen Tomlin
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Alice Winning
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Gabriel Angel
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
as Self - Guest
Scarlett
1994
as Pansy
Nightshift
1993
Soldier Soldier
1991
as Bernie Roberts
Screen Two
1985
as Gabriel Angel
Question Time
1979
as Self - Panellist