Danielle Vitalis

The British actress and writer Danielle Vitalis spent part of her early life in Saint Lucia before her family settled in Hackney, London, during the 1990s. Her screen debut came in 2011, as Tia in Joe Cornish's Attack the Block (2011). She went on to work in the E4 comedy drama Youngers, a BBC Three supernatural drama called In the Flesh and the Dave sitcom Sliced, in which she had a lead role alongside Samson Kayo. Digital Spy included her among its 30 Black British stars of tomorrow in 2020, the year she came aboard the third series of Famalam. Her other credits take in Horrible Histories, Stath Lets Flats, I May Destroy You and an episode of Black Mirror. In 2023 she acted in The Great Escaper (2023) and led the Sky Comedy series Smothered as Sammy; Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw picked out her supporting work that year as among the finest on film.