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Personal Details
Other Works:
Played Sheherezade in "The Arabian Nights" - Young Vic Theatre, London (1998).
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Publicity Listings:
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1 Magazine Cover Photo
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Height:
5' 8" (1.73 m)
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Did You Know?
Personal Quote:
[on being
awarded the OBE in June 2010] The cherry on the cake and way beyond anything I would have imagined for myself.
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Trivia:
In 2005, Okonedo became the first black actress since
Angela Bassett in 1994 to receive an NAACP Image Award nomination for the same role in which she was nominated for an Oscar. Previous Oscar nominees
Marianne Jean-Baptiste,
Halle Berry and
Queen Latifah were not nominated by the NAACP for the same roles.
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