Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo

Actress

London, England, UK

Biography

Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo is an English actress. She studied acting for three years from 2010 at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She graduating a Bachelor of Arts degree in Acting (H Level) in 2013. She is best known as Jack Starbright in the teen spy thriller series Alex Ryder (2020). She has also acted in the 10th series, Doctor Who. In 2018, she appeared in Netflix’s original music Bean So Long. She first entered the theater and trained her acting skills. She gets to play Ṣadé in t…

Filmography

7.6

Doctor Who

Penny

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

7.6

Ready Player One

Sorrento's Assistant

When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

7.8

Alex Rider

Jack Starbright

Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy.

6.1

Soulmates

Carly

Fifteen years into the future, science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is.

6.7

Cuckoo

Job centre manager

Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.

6.4

Black Earth Rising

Alice's Secretary

As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

7.3

Christopher Robin

Katherine Dane

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

7.0

Chewing Gum

Amy

The life of Tracey, a religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old living in an estate in Tower Hamlets, and the mishaps of her neighbourhood, friends and family. Oh, and obvs her boyfriend!

6.4

Chevalier

Nanon

The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court.

6.6

Rain Dogs

Gloria Duke

An unconventional love story between a working-class single mum, her young daughter and a privileged gay man. A wild and punky tale of a mother's love for her daughter, of deep-rooted and passionate friendships, and of brilliance thwarted by poverty and prejudice.

6.0

Dreamers

Isio

After living undocumented in the UK for two years, Nigerian migrant Isio is caught and sent to the Hatchworth Removal Centre. She hopes for a fair asylum hearing and is convinced that, as long as she strictly follows the rules, she will be released – even if her charismatic new roommate Farah tells her this is a naive mistake.

5.5

Been So Long

Yvonne

A single mother in London's Camden Town hears music when she meets a handsome stranger with a past. But she's not sure she's ready to open her heart.

5.8

Divine

While reporting on the election of the Pope in Rome, the completely atheistic journalist Gregory falls in love with Maria of all people, who is about to become a nun and is therefore actually promised to God. Gregory faces an accumulation of mysterious obstacles as he tries to get closer to Maria. He has to find out that he is dealing with a supernatural competitor. However, Gregory is determined to take up the fight against the big enemy.

7.8

National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

Gwendolen Fairfax

Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

6.5

ear for eye

UK Friend 1

From front rooms, Black families, friends, students and older generations navigate British and American society today.

N/A

The Contraception Fair

Camille

Camille, a young woman who wants to stop taking the birth control pill, finds herself in the ‘Female Contraception Fair', an imaginary place where the female contraceptive methods all compete for her attention, pressuring her to make a choice.

9.0

Cyprus Avenue

Bridget

David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old granddaughter for Gerry Adams.

N/A

National Theatre Live: Blues for an Alabama Sky

Delia Patterson

New York, 1930. Following a decade of creative explosion, the Harlem Renaissance is starting to feel the bite of the Great Depression. In the face of hardship and dwindling opportunity, Angel and her friends battle to keep their artistic dreams alive. But, when Angel falls for a stranger from Alabama, their romance forces the group to make good on their ambitions, or give in to the reality of the time. Lynette Linton directs a startling revival of this extraordinary play by Pearl Cleage.

6.0

National Theatre Live: Three Sisters

Abosede

Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos.

7.0

Guests

Cecelia

In 1972, A Nigerian woman hosts her English colleague for dinner in the hope of getting her prideful husband a job.