Jade Anouka

Jade Anouka is an English actress who was born in London and raised in Slade Green. She started acting at a Saturday drama club in Dartford and trained at the Guildford School of Acting before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. She made her stage debut in 2007 in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad and is known for stage roles and for television work in the ITV dramas Trauma and Cleaning Up and the BBC One series His Dark Materials. In 2011 the Ian Charleson Awards commended her for playing Ophelia in Hamlet at Shakespeare's Globe. She won a Stage Award for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe for her one-woman show Chef and appeared as Mark Antony, Hotspur and Ariel in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeare trilogy. In 2016 she published a poetry collection, Eggs on Toast.