Rakie Ayola
Actor · Executive Producer
Born May 11, 1968 · Cardiff, Wales, UK
Active 1985–present
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.
Filmography
Falling (2026) — MurielBad Apples (2026) — SylviaNational Theatre at Home: The Authenticator (2026) — AbiHope Is Lost (2025) — Hope (voice) · Executive ProducerHedgehog — ConsultantBlack Mirror (2011) — ShellyDoctor Who (2005) — HostessDredd (2012) — Chief JudgeNow Is Good (2012) — PhillippaAlex Rider (2020) — Jo ByrneMidsomer Murders (1997) — Alice WinningSahara (2005) — Mrs. NwokoloKAOS (2024) — PersephoneShetland (2013) — Olivia LennoxBrexit: The Uncivil War (2019) — CamillaVera (2011) — Amber HalefordFlowers (2016) — MoragThe I Inside (2004) — Nurse ClaytonNo Offence (2015) — Nora AttahGrace (2021) — ACC Alison VosperCode of a Killer (2015) — Helena AdarkwaWaking the Dead (2001) — PaulineThe Pact (2021) — Christine Rees · DS HollandScarlett (1994) — Pansy