Nikki Amuka-Bird
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Nikki Amuka-Bird is a Nigerian born British
actress of the stage and screen. Her theatrical credits include Welcome to Thebes
(National Theatre); Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic); World Music (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and Donmar Warehouse); Top Girls
(Oxford Stage Company); A Midsummer Night's Dream
, The Tempest
and The Servant of Two Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company); Doubt: A Parable (Tricycle Theatre).
Her film credits include The Omen
(2006 remake), Cargo, Almost Heaven
as well as the screen adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith
's novel The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
. On television, she has appeared in Spooks
, The Line of Beauty
, The Last Enemy, Robin Hood and Torchwood
. She is currently playing Samantha Willis - the last surviving member of the government - in the reimagined BBC apocalyptic series Survivors
. In 2010 she appeared as Det Supt Gaynor Jenkins in the BBC's Silent Witness
.
She appeared in the BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy
's award winning novel, Small Island
, broadcast in December 2009.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
actress of the stage and screen. Her theatrical credits include Welcome to Thebes
Welcome to Thebes
Welcome to Thebes is a 2010 play by Moira Buffini. It premiered on 15 June 2010 in a production at the Olivier auditorium of the Royal National Theatre in London directed by Richard Eyre.-Plot:...
(National Theatre); Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic); World Music (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and Donmar Warehouse); Top Girls
Top Girls
Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It is about a woman named Marlene, a career-driven woman who is employed at the 'Top Girls' employment agency. The play examines issues of gender discrimination present in the Thatcherite society that it is set in...
(Oxford Stage Company); A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
, The Tempest
The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
and The Servant of Two Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company); Doubt: A Parable (Tricycle Theatre).
Her film credits include The Omen
The Omen (2006 film)
The Omen is a 2006 remake of Richard Donner's The Omen of 1976 and a part of The Omen series. Directed by John Moore and written by David Seltzer, the film stars Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick...
(2006 remake), Cargo, Almost Heaven
Almost Heaven
Almost Heaven is the tenth regular studio album by European-American pop group The Kelly Family. Based on concept by Dan Kelly, it was co-produced by Kathy and Paddy Kelly and released in 1996 throughout most of Europe....
as well as the screen adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, is a Rhodesian-born Scottish writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees...
's novel The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a series of twelve novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. The agency is located in Gaborone, capital of Botswana. Its founder is a Motswana woman, Mma Precious Ramotswe, who features as the stories' protagonist and main detective...
. On television, she has appeared in Spooks
Spooks
Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
, The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.-Plot introduction:Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest....
, The Last Enemy, Robin Hood and Torchwood
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
. She is currently playing Samantha Willis - the last surviving member of the government - in the reimagined BBC apocalyptic series Survivors
Survivors (2008 TV Series)
Survivors is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent strain of heretofore unknown influenza which has wiped out most of the human race...
. In 2010 she appeared as Det Supt Gaynor Jenkins in the BBC's Silent Witness
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
.
She appeared in the BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy is a British author, born in London to Jamaican parents who sailed to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948.-Identity and writings:...
's award winning novel, Small Island
Small Island (television drama)
Small Island is a two-part 2009 BBC One television drama adapted from the 2004 novel of the same title by Andrea Levy. The programme stars Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson as joint respective female protagonists Hortense Roberts and Queenie Bligh, two women who struggle to fulfil their personal...
, broadcast in December 2009.
Filmography
- LutherLuther (TV series)Luther is a British psychological crime drama television series starring Idris Elba as the title character Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. A first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC One from 4 May to 8 June 2010. The second series of four episodes was shown on BBC One in summer 2011...
(BBC One TV Series) as Det Sgt Erin Gray (Series 2) - Silent WitnessSilent WitnessSilent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
(BBC One TV Series) as Det Supt Gaynor Jenkins - Small Island (BBC1, Autumn 2009)
- SurvivorsSurvivors (2008 TV Series)Survivors is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent strain of heretofore unknown influenza which has wiped out most of the human race...
(BBC One TV Series, 2008 and 2010) as Samantha Willis MP - The Disappeared (2008) as Shelley Cartwright
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a series of twelve novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. The agency is located in Gaborone, capital of Botswana. Its founder is a Motswana woman, Mma Precious Ramotswe, who features as the stories' protagonist and main detective...
(2008 screen adaptation) as Alice Busang - The Last EnemyThe Last Enemy (TV series)The Last Enemy is a BBC TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and featuring Robert Carlyle and Max Beesley which first aired on 17 February 2008.-Plot:...
(2008 TV mini-series) as Susan Ross (unknown episodes) - TorchwoodTorchwoodTorchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
(TV Series, 2008) as Beth Halloran/Sleeper Agent (one episode) - The Whistleblowers (2007 TV Series) as Helen Errol (one episode)
- Five DaysFive DaysFive Days is a British dramatic television series produced by the BBC in association with Home Box Office . The first series was first broadcast on BBC One from 23 January to 1 February 2007, and repeated on BBC Four from 9 April to 13 April 2007....
(2007 TV mini-series) as PC Simone Farnes - Born EqualBorn EqualBorn Equal is a television film produced for the BBC exploring aspects of poverty, race, inequality, homelessness, immigration and class in modern Britain. Written and directed by Dominic Savage and starring Colin Firth, Robert Carlyle, David Oyelowo, Anne-Marie Duff, and Emilia Fox, it was likened...
(2006 TV series) as Itshe - Robin HoodRobin HoodRobin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
(TV Series, 2006) as Abbess (1 episode) - SpooksSpooksSpooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
(TV Series 2006) as Michelle Lopez (1 episode) - The OmenThe OmenAn original score for the film, including the movie's theme song Ave Satani, was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, for which he received the only Oscar of his long career. The score features a strong choral segment, with a foreboding Latin chant...
(2006) as Dr. Becker - The Line of BeautyThe Line of BeautyThe Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.-Plot introduction:Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest....
(TV Series 2006) as Rosemary Charles (2 episodes) - Shoot the Messenger (2006) as Heather
- The True Voice of Prostitution (2006) (TV)
- CargoCargoCargo is goods or produce transported, generally for commercial gain, by ship, aircraft, train, van or truck. In modern times, containers are used in most intermodal long-haul cargo transport.-Marine:...
(2006) as Subira - Casualty @ Holby City as Moji Muzenda (3 episodes, 2005)
- Holby CityHolby CityHolby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
(3 episodes, 1999–2005) as various - CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
as Moji Muzenda (1 episode, 2005) - AfterlifeAfterlifeThe afterlife is the belief that a part of, or essence of, or soul of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity, survives the death of the body of this world and this lifetime, by natural or supernatural means, in contrast to the belief in eternal...
(TV Series, 2005) Sandra Petch (1 episode) - Almost HeavenAlmost HeavenAlmost Heaven is the tenth regular studio album by European-American pop group The Kelly Family. Based on concept by Dan Kelly, it was co-produced by Kathy and Paddy Kelly and released in 1996 throughout most of Europe....
(TV, 2005) as Rosie - Silent WitnessSilent WitnessSilent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
(TV Series, 2005) Simone Campbell (1 episode) - Murder PreventionMurder PreventionMurder Prevention was a British police drama inspired by the real-life Homicide Prevention Unit within the Metropolitan Police. It was produced for Five by World Productions who previously produced the television series The Cops. The series consisted of three two-part stories...
(TV Series, 2004) as Gemma (1 episode) - Bad GirlsBad Girls (TV series)Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
(TV Series) as Paula Miles (8 episodes, 2003–2004) - Canterbury Tales (TV Series, 2003) as Constance Musa (1 episode)
- Doctors (TV Series, 2000) as Nurse (1 episode)
- Safe as HousesSafe as HousesSafe as Houses was a Scottish television property programme on STV, hosted by sports broadcaster Ali Douglas and money advisor Fergus Muirhead....
(2000 TV series) as Carole (unknown episodes) - Forgive and ForgetForgive and ForgetForgive and Forget may refer to:*Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve, a book by Lewis B. Smedes*"Forgive and Forget", a song by Alien Ant Farm from Up in the Attic...
(2000, TV) as Emma - The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
(TV Series, 1999) as Doreen West (1 episode) - Grafters (TV mini-series, 1998) as Martha (unknown episodes)
External links
- http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=2513725001&channel=687883034 Survivors Interview
- http://www.soulculture.co.uk/features/interviews/nikki-amuka-bird-our-job-as-actors-is-to-show-the-colour-of-our-skin-doesn’t-matter/ Welcome to Thebes Interview