Rakie Ayola

Rakie Ayola is a Welsh actress known for her theater and television work. Born in Cardiff, she trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and began her career in Shakespearean plays such as Twelfth Night and The Tempest. Her first film was Great Moments in Aviation (1993), and later films include Sahara (2005), The I Inside (2004), Dredd (2012), and Now Is Good (2012). On television she had her first major television role in Soldier Soldier, and she is best known as Kyla Tyson in Holby City from 2006 to 2008. Her other credits include Doctor Who, Black Mirror, Shetland, and No Offence. In 2017 she played Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End. Ayola won a BAFTA for Anthony and two BAFTA Cymru for Anthony and The Pact, and in 2020 she won best female actor in a play at the Black British Theatre Awards for On Bear Ridge.