Chizzy Akudolu

Andrea Chizoba "Chizzy" Akudolu (born 7 October 1973 Harlesden, London) is a British actress.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Chizzy Akudolu
Born
Andrea Chizoba Akudolu

(1973-10-07) 7 October 1973
Harlesden, London, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active2002–present
Known forHolby City, Jinx

Career

In 2002, Akudolu was one of eight new comedy performers who won the BBC Talent Initiative, The Urban Sketch Showcase. All eight performed a comedy sketch show in front of BBC casting directors and producers at the Tabernacle Theatre in Notting Hill. Her first television appearance was in the BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High. This was followed by a small role in EastEnders. She continued to work for the BBC in her first children's series called Stupid! and Roman's Empire. Credits also include Green Wing, Dustbin Baby for Kindle Entertainment and as a caricature of herself in the mockumentary The Most Unromantic Man in the World. Akudolu also played series regular Miss Kanouti in The Complete Guide to Parenting. She has continued to work for CBBC in programmes such as Nuzzle and Scratch, Scoop and Gigglebiz. In 2007, she toured with The Vagina Monologues for three months. In 2008, Akudolu played the housemate, Angel, in Dead Set, a satirical cross between Big Brother and zombies. In 2009, she had a guest role in Hollyoaks Later and starred in the CBBC show Jinx in the lead role as the unconventional Fairy Godmother, Cookie. In 2010 Akudolu appeared in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Twenty Twelve, The Inbetweeners, and as a semi-regular in the Channel 4 comedy Campus.

Since May 2012, Akudolu has played the role of the surgeon Mo Effanga in Holby City. It has since been announced that Akudolu is departing Holby City after five years. She was nominated and won the award for "Best Newcomer" at the Black International Film Festival and Music Video & Screen Awards. She has also won the Best Actress in the same year at BEFFTA Awards. She was nominated for the "Emerging Talent" award at the 8th Annual Screen Nation Awards.[9]

In 2017, Akudolu took part in Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief with a duo from Casualty. The trio performed "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars and came second place. In 2017, she took part in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One. She was the first celebrity to be eliminated after a disappointing Foxtrot which lacked flow and the traditional format of the dance.[10] Akudolu took part in the Weakest Link one-off celebrity episode for Children in Need. She was the strongest link in 5 out of the 6 rounds, and beat Rylan Clark-Neal in the final round to win, earning 1,130 pounds for Children in Need, which the programme doubled.

In January 2019, Akudolu played Butterfly Brown in Death in Paradise.[11]

2020 saw Akudulo compete on Richard Osman's House of Games, televised on BBC Two [12], alongside Tom Allen (Comedian), Charlie Higson, and Kate Williams [13].

Personal life

She has a brown belt in karate and is an experienced calligrapher. Her mother was a midwife.

Filmography
Year Show Role Notes
2004 15 Storeys High Melinda Episode: "Vince the Shirker"
2004 EastEnders Mattie George 1 episode
2004 Stupid! Various Series regular
2006 Green Wing Car Parking Attendant 1 episode
2006 The Complete Guide to Parenting Miss Kanouti Series regular
2007 Roman's Empire Mummy 1 episode
2008 Nuzzle and Scratch Maria Episode: "Ice Cream Van"
2008 Dead Set Angel Series regular
2008 Dustbin Baby Railway Woman Television film
2009 In the Loop U.N Cleaner Film
2009 Agent X Alice Television film
2009 Hollyoaks Later Receptionist
2009 Jinx Cookie Series regular
2009 Gigglebiz Various Series regular
2010 The Inbetweeners Maggie Episode: "Will's Dilemma"
2010 The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret Shopper
2011 Twenty Twelve Jane Owen
2011 Campus Grace 2 Series regular
2011 Scoop Lorraine Episode: "Northenders"
2011 Mongrels Office Worker Episode: "Nelson and the Amazing Nuts"
2012 Silent Witness Nurse Episode: "And Then I Fell in Love"
2012–2017, 2018–2019 Holby City Mo Effanga Series regular
2015 5 Minutes Denise
2016 Hood Documentary Julie
2016 Sorry, I Didn't Know Panelist 1 episode
2017 Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief Herself
2017 Strictly Come Dancing Series 15
2017 The Weakest Link Children in Need special
2018 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Sandra Kingly Episode: "The Chameleon's Dish"
2018–2019 Loose Women Herself Panellist (20 episodes)
2018 Celebrity MasterChef Eliminated
2018 Impossible Celebrities
2018, 2020 Richard Osman's House of Games Herself
2019 Death in Paradise Butterfly Brown
2019 Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star Herself Guest star
2019 Hetty Feather Mrs. Doughty Christmas special
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References
  1. "Digital Spy - TV news, TV reviews, TV ratings". Digital Spy.
  2. Welch, Tricia (11 May 2014). "Holby City's Chizzy Akudolu: 'I can't get rid of clothes'".
  3. http://www.tvchoicemagazine.co.uk/interviewextra/chizzy-akudolu-holby-city
  4. "BBC - Programmes - Page not found". BBC.
  5. "Spotlight: CHIZZY AKUDOLU". www.spotlight.com.
  6. "NTAs 2013: Longlist nominations in full". 22 September 2012.
  7. "PRESS RELEASES «  BEFFTA AWARDS". www.beffta.com.
  8. "Episode 4, 2017, Let's Sing & Dance for Comic Relief - BBC One". BBC.
  9. "EastEnders up for four MVSAs". EastEnders. BBC Online. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  10. Hogan, Michael (1 October 2017). "Strictly Come Dancing 2017, first live results: Chizzy Akudolu becomes the first celebrity hoofer sent home" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  11. "Meet the cast of Death in Paradise series 8". Radio Times. 10 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  12. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094mjv0
  13. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8581952/

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