Weruche Opia

Weruche Opia is a Nigerian actress who was born in Lagos and moved to Southeast London as a teenager, later taking a degree in drama and sociology at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Her first screen credit came in a 2010 episode of The Bill before she spent a year with Nigeria's Renegade Theatre Company. Back in England in 2012, she worked on the crime drama Top Boy and the procedural Suspects. She gained prominence as Cleopatra Ofoedo in Bad Education, the BBC comedy, appearing in its third series and in the 2015 spinoff The Bad Education Movie (2015), and earned a Nigeria Entertainment Awards nomination for When Love Happens. From 2019 to 2020 she was in the cast of the sitcom Sliced, and her performance as Terry Pratchard in I May Destroy You brought a British Academy Television Award nomination and a Black Reel Award. In 2022 she appeared in Our House, an ITV thriller.