Rakie Ayola
Birthday
1968/05/11 (57 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Also know as
Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola
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...Read more
Acting
(2005) Sahara
as Mrs. Nwokolo
(2004) The I Inside
as Nurse Clayton
(2012) Dredd
as Chief Judge
(2014) Under Milk Wood
as Voice
(2012) Now Is Good
as Phillippa
(2016) King Lear
as Goneril
(2018) Been So Long
as Martina
(1994) Great Moments in Aviation
as Gabriel Angel
(2019) Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Camilla
(2020) Anthony
as Gee Walker
(2021) Mothers, Missiles and the American President
as Narrator
(2025) Bad Apples
as Sylvia
(1999) The Secret Laughter of Women
as Talking Drum
Hope Is Lost
as Hope
Black Church Bay
as ---
Hedgehog
as Consultant
(2021) Grace
as ACC Alison Vosper
(2001) Waking the Dead
as Pauline
(2021) The Pact
as DS Holland
(2009) My Almost Famous Family
as Shalondra
(2008) Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
as ---
(2005) Doctor Who
as Hostess
(1998) Maisie Raine
as D.C. Helen Tomlin
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Alice Winning
(2003) Canterbury Tales
as Nicky Constable
(2020) Alex Rider
as Jo Byrne
(2011) Black Mirror
as Shelly
(2011) Vera
as Amber Haleford
(2015) Code of a Killer
as Helena Adarkwa
(2004) Sea of Souls
as Yemi
(2021) The Pact
as Christine Rees
(1991) Soldier Soldier
as Bernie Roberts
(1979) Question Time
as Self - Panellist
(1994) Ready, Steady, Cook
as Self - Guest
(2013) Shetland
as Olivia Lennox
(2024) Saving Lives in Cardiff
as Self - Narrator
(2024) KAOS
as Persephone
(2001) Murder in Mind
as Cally
(2016) Flowers
as Morag
(1993) Nightshift
as ---
(2002) Being April
as Taneshia
(1994) Scarlett
as Pansy
(1999) Holby City
as Kyla Tyson