Shanika Warren-Markland

Shanika Warren-Markland is a British actress whose credits include the Channel 4 drama More Than Love and the film 4.3.2.1. Raised in West London, she was thirteen when she joined the Royal National Theatre's youth program, where she learned to read and interpret scripts, and she later trained at the Young Blood Theatre. Her first television part was Lillie, the lead in Channel 4's More Than Love, and at sixteen she landed roles in the BBC series Holby City and Spooks. Her first feature was Kayla in Noel Clarke's Adulthood (2008), and she took the co-lead of Kerrys in his 4.3.2.1 (2010). She also played Ashleigh in Demons Never Die, Langston in the American film The Skinny, and Charmaine in Victim. Gone Too Far (2013) cast her as Armani; it was shown in 2014 at the Toronto Film Festival. In June 2022 the Talawa Theatre Company staged her play Barbie Comes to Tea.