Since her turn in 2004’s Oscar-winning Hotel Rwanda,up and coming British acretress Okoned’s career has been going from strength to strength. After this week’s Scenes of a Sexual Nature, she will barely be off our screens for the next year, with four films and two TV projects coming up – including in the BBC’s revival of the popular children’s storytelling show Jackanory from January.
On the big screen, she’ll be cropping up alongside siblings John and Joan Cusack in The Martian Child before acting as the love interest for two very different stars – rapper Mos Def in the 1970s period piece Stringbean and Marcus, and Matthew Broderick in inter-racial dating drama Wonderful World – before taking on the action thriller genre alongside Kevin Bacon (somewhat implausibly stepping into the shoes of original star Vin Diesel) in Black Water Transit.
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