Nina Sosanya

Nina Sosanya, born in Islington, London, is an English actress and narrator who trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and broke through on television as English teacher Jenny Paige in the 2001 series Teachers. She is known for roles in Teachers, W1A and Last Tango in Halifax, playing Kate McKenzie in the latter from 2012 to 2015. Her other television work includes Twenty Twelve, Silk, Marcella, Good Omens and the Channel 4 drama Screw, and she appeared as Alibe Silver in Treasure Island (2012) and on stage in The Vote (2015). With the Royal Shakespeare Company she played Rosalind in As You Like It and Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, and her stage work also includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse. She narrates as well, including the CBeebies series Moon and Me and audiobooks.