Nina Sosanya

1969

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

She has appeared in many roles in the theatre, on television and in films, for example in Sorted, People Like Us, Teachers, Love Actually, Nathan Barley, Renaissance, Casanova, as Karen Blaine in the Jonathan Creek episode "The Three Gamblers", Much Ado About Nothing, Cape Wrath/Meadowlands, the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her", and FM. In 2003, she played Rosalind in As You Like lieutenant with the Royal Shakespeare Company ("Royal Society of Chemistry ") at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2008 she returned to the Royal Society of Chemistry to play Rosaline in Love"s Labour"s Lost and in 2009 appeared in a radio adaptation of a story from the short story collection The State of the Artist She reads the part of Sephy on the audio book versions of Malorie Blackman"s Noughts and Crosses series. In January 2010, Nina appeared as Mae Pollock in Tennessee Williams" play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, at the Novello Theatre, London. She appeared as Colly Trent in series 2 of the British Broadcasting Corporation television drama, Five Days. Most recently, she appeared in the BBC4 television series Twenty Twelve, a comedy about the London 2012 Olympic buildup, and the BBC1 drama series Silk and Hustle. She also made a brief appearance in the children"s CBBC science fiction series, Wizards vs Aliens as Benny Sherwood"s mother, Trisha. Sosanya played the character Alibe Silver in Treasure Island (2012). She has played a main character, Kate McKenzie, in series one through three of the British Broadcasting Corporation original drama Last Tango in Halifax during 2012-2015, and a main character, Lucy Freeman, in the television series W1A in 2014. In 2015, she starred with Catherine Tate and Mark Gatiss in a new play, The Vote, in the run-up to the United Kingdom 2015 General Election.

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She was born in London, with a Nigerian father, and trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, gaining A-Levels in performing arts

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She has appeared in many roles in the theatre, on television and in films, for example in Sorted, People Like Us, Teachers, Love Actually, Nathan Barley, Renaissance, Casanova, as Karen Blaine in the Jonathan Creek episode "The Three Gamblers", Much Ado About Nothing, Cape Wrath/Meadowlands, the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her", and FM. In 2003, she played Rosalind in As You Like lieutenant with the Royal Shakespeare Company ("Royal Society of Chemistry ") at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2008 she returned to the Royal Society of Chemistry to play Rosaline in Love"s Labour"s Lost and in 2009 appeared in a radio adaptation of a story from the short story collection The State of the Artist She reads the part of Sephy on the audio book versions of Malorie Blackman"s Noughts and Crosses series.

In January 2010, Nina appeared as Mae Pollock in Tennessee Williams" play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, at the Novello Theatre, London.

She appeared as Colly Trent in series 2 of the British Broadcasting Corporation television drama, Five Days. Most recently, she appeared in the BBC4 television series Twenty Twelve, a comedy about the London 2012 Olympic buildup, and the BBC1 drama series Silk and Hustle.

She also made a brief appearance in the children"s CBBC science fiction series, Wizards vs Aliens as Benny Sherwood"s mother, Trisha. Sosanya played the character Alibe Silver in Treasure Island (2012).

She has played a main character, Kate McKenzie, in series one through three of the British Broadcasting Corporation original drama Last Tango in Halifax during 2012-2015, and a main character, Lucy Freeman, in the television series W1A in 2014.

In 2015, she starred with Catherine Tate and Mark Gatiss in a new play, The Vote, in the run-up to the United Kingdom 2015 General Election.

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