Rakie Ayola

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1968-01-01 (56 years old)

Place of Birth Cardiff, Wales, UK

Also Known As Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola

Rakie 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 diploma.

Known For

Actor

Bad Apples

as Sylvia

2024
KAOS

as Persephone

2024
Saving Lives in Cardiff

as Self - Narrator

2021
The Pact

as DS Holland

2021
The Pact

as Christine Rees

2021
Grace

as ACC Alison Vosper

2020
Anthony

as Gee Walker

2020
Alex Rider

as Jo Byrne

2018
Been So Long

as Martina

2016
King Lear

as Goneril

2015
Code of a Killer

as Helena Adarkwa

2014
2013
Shetland

as Olivia Lennox

2012
Now Is Good

as Phillippa

2012
Dredd

as Chief Judge

2011
Black Mirror

as Shelly

2011
Vera

as Amber Haleford

2009
2005
Sahara

as Mrs. Nwokolo

2005
Doctor Who

as Hostess

2004
The I Inside

as Nurse Clayton

2004
Sea of Souls

as Yemi

2003
Canterbury Tales

as Nicky Constable

2001
Waking the Dead

as Pauline

2001
1998
Maisie Raine

as D.C. Helen Tomlin

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Alice Winning

1994
Great Moments in Aviation

as Gabriel Angel

1994
Ready Steady Cook

as Self - Guest

1991
Soldier Soldier

as Bernie Roberts

1979
Question Time

as Self - Panellist

Producer

2018
Twelfth Night

as Executive Producer