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Sophie Okonedo [1968-0] British

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Actress

Sophie Okonedo OBE is an English actress. She received an OBE in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours. Okonedo began her film career in 1991 in the British coming-of-age drama Young Soul Rebels before appearing in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things.

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The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.		101
The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.		102
I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.		103
I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.		104
But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.		105
My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.		106
I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.		107
When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.		108
As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.		109
I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.		110
Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.		111
I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.		112
When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say.		113
Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.		114
I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.		115
My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.		116
I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.		117
As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.		118
I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.		119

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