Fisayo Akinade
Acting
Biography
Fisayo Akinade is a stage, film and television actor.
Born: December 28, 1987
Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK
Known For
Heartstopper
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
The Vote
On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.
Atlanta
Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.
Foundation
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
Foundation
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
National Theatre Live: Barber Shop Chronicles
For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Follow along as we leap from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day.
A Ghost Story for Christmas
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.
Cucumber
Original drama series from Russell T Davies exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life, beginning with the most disastrous date night in history.
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.
A Very English Scandal
It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
Filmography
as Nurse Angel
as Kevin
as Mr Ajayi
as Felix Owusu
as Mercutio
as Pelor
as Eely Karvis
as William
as Cailean Ferris
as Clive Otunde
as The Dauphin
as Kieran Gallagher
as Khalil
as Flute
as Iago
as Jonathan Clarke
as Dean Monroe
as Dean Monroe
as Dean
as William
as William
as Mercutio