Nina Sosanya

Nina Sosanya (born 6 June 1969) is an English stage, television, and film actress, most notable for her roles in W1A and Last Tango in Halifax.^[1][2]

Early life and education

She was born in London, to a Nigerian father and an English mother.^[1] For a short time, she attended the Vale of Catmose College in Oakham and later trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, gaining A-Levels in performing arts.^[2]

Career

She has appeared in many roles in the theatre, on television and in films. Her first big break in theatre was in Anthony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre, and with the 2001 series Teachers.^[3] She also appeared in Sorted, People Like Us,, Love Actually, Nathan Barley, Renaissance, Casanova, as Karen Blaine in the Jonathan Creek episode "The Three Gamblers", Much Ado About Nothing, Cape Wrath/Meadowlands, the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her", and FM.^[4]

In 2003, she played Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company ("RSC") at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; in 2008 she returned to the RSC to play Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost and in 2009 appeared in a radio adaptation of a story from the short story collection The State of the Art.^[4]

She reads the part of Sephy on the audio book versions of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses series.

In January 2010, Nina appeared as Mae Pollock in Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, at the Novello Theatre, London..^[4]

She appeared as Colly Trent in series 2 of the BBC television drama, Five Days. She appeared in the BBC4 television series Twenty Twelve, a comedy about the London 2012 Olympic buildup, and the BBC1 drama series Silk and Hustle. She also made a brief appearance in the children's CBBC science fiction series, Wizards vs Aliens as Benny Sherwood's mother, Trisha..^[4]

Sosanya played the character Alibe Silver in Treasure Island (2012). She has played a main character, Kate McKenzie, in series one through three of the BBC original drama Last Tango in Halifax during 2012-2015,^[1] and a main character, Lucy Freeman, in the TV series W1A in 2014. In 2015, she starred with Catherine Tate and Mark Gatiss in a new play, The Vote, in the run-up to the UK 2015 General Election. In 2016, she started in the play Young Chekhov trilogy and as DCI Laura Porter in the ITV series Marcella.^[1][5]

Filmography

References

External links

• Nina Sosanya at the Internet Movie Database