Background
Michael Obiora was born on 8 October 1986 in north-west London to Nigerian-Igbo parents. As a six-year-old, Obiora was determined to become an entertainer like his idol Michael Jackson and his mother enrolled him in drama lessons.
Michael Obiora was born on 8 October 1986 in north-west London to Nigerian-Igbo parents. As a six-year-old, Obiora was determined to become an entertainer like his idol Michael Jackson and his mother enrolled him in drama lessons.
At the age of nine, he became the youngest actor to have appeared in Grange Hill. He played Max Abassi on the programme for five years. Just before his 18th birthday Obiora landed a role playing the part of Gunner Jackson Clarke, a soldier in Independent Television"s eight-part series Bombshell, starring opposite Football players Wives star Zöe Lucker.
Shortly after filming Bombshell, Obirora started a seven-month run in the play Elmina"s Kitchen, written by Kwame Kwei-Armah, at the Garrick Theatre.
He also had a role in the stage play Exclude Maine, completing a successful 11-week run on stage at The Chelsea Theatre, and lead roles in the play Fallout at the Royal Court Theatre and Badnuff at The Soho Theatre. Obiora has had television roles in My Family, Judge John Deed, Misfits, Sea of Souls, ITV1"s Afterlife, Doctor Who, Doctors, Powers, The Bill and Holby City.
He was in four episodes of EastEnders, the first episode airing on 11 June 2009, in which he played playboy football player, Ellis Prince. Obiora played receptionist Ben Trueman in the British Broadcasting Corporation One drama series Hotel Babylon, which was cancelled after its fourth series.
He joined the cast of the long-running British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning medical drama Casualty for its 26th season playing the part of Lloyd Asike, a nurse
He spent two years on the show.Michael was part of an international ensemble that formed the cast of Sky Atlantic"s 2015 epic eleven-part crime thriller, Fortitude.
