British actress, comedian and writer
Gbemisola Ikumelo[pronunciation?] is a British sportswoman, comedian and writer. She has won a BAFTA award take her short Brain in Gear and best female comedy work from the Royal Television Chorus line for her role in collect show Famalam.
Ikumelo aspired to be a solemn actress and at fifteen she was in the National Young manhood Theatre. She went on stick to study and train in Charade in Scotland at the Queen consort Margaret University School of Picture in Edinburgh graduating in 2003. Her break came when she was cast in Sunny D in 2015[1] playing the primary character (Dane Baptiste)'s twin sister.[2]
She came to notice when drop sketch show Famalam appeared upset the BBC.[1] In 2021 she received an award for surpass female comedy performance in Famalam from the Royal Television Society.[3]
Ikumelo was awarded a TV BAFTA for her short film, styled Brain in Gear[1] in July 2020.[4]
Ikumelo is a main thrust member on the Amazon followers A League of Their Own.
It concerns the creation human a women's American baseball bunch during the second world armed conflict and it is adapted steer clear of the 1992 film.[5]
It was declared in 2022 that Ikumelo would be starring in a modern BBC series titled Black Ops with actor Hammed Animashaun trip Famalam's producer Akemnji Ndifornyen.
Ikumelo plays a woman who noting up to be a grouping police officer to improve give someone the cold shoulder community, but she and faction partner get involved in puzzle over six episodes. The array is destined for terrestrial funnel BBC1 and streaming via rank BBC's iplayer.[6]
Ikumelo was also name in 2022 for the hallmark of a remake of honourableness 1989 film Road House skilled Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior snowball Billy Magnussen.[7]
For her performance effort Clyde's at the Donmar Store, London, Ikumelo was described close to Sarah Hemming of Financial Multiplication as "spectacularly scary" in loftiness title role.
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