Chiké Okonkwo

Chiké Okonkwo is a British actor who trained with the National Youth Theatre and belonged to the National Youth Music Theatre. Raised in Kingston upon Thames, he won a place on the BBC Talent Scheme in 2001, one of ten actors picked from 12,000 hopefuls, and got his first professional role in Holby City. On television he became known as PC Clark in New Tricks and DC Callum Gada in Paradox, and he also played Ty Coleman in La Brea and Lee Truitt in Being Mary Jane. His stage work includes Oklahoma!, Into the Woods, As You Like It and A Matter of Life and Death. He also spent a year at the National Theatre and has long been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His films include Spirit Trap (2005), Animal (2005) and Derailed (2005), and he appeared in The Birth of a Nation, which had its premiere at Sundance in 2016.