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) - SylviaHedgehog - ConsultantHope Is Lost (2025) - Hope (voice) · Executive ProducerNational Theatre at Home: The Authenticator (2026) - AbiBlack 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