Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola is a Welsh actress.
She was born in Cardiff in May 1968, to a Sierra Leonean mother and a Nigerian father, and was raised by her mother's cousin and his wife in the Ely district of the city.
She studied at Glan Ely High School, and was a member of the Orbit Youth Theatre, South Glamorgan Youth Theatre, South Glamorgan Youth Choir and the National Youth Theatre of Wales.
She went on to attend the Royal Welsh College of...
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Sahara
As Mrs. Nwokolo
The I Inside
As Nurse Clayton
Dredd
As Chief Judge
Under Milk Wood
As Voice
Now Is Good
As Phillippa
King Lear
As Goneril
Been So Long
As Martina
Great Moments in Aviation
As Gabriel Angel
Brexit: The Uncivil War
As Camilla
Anthony
As Gee Walker
Mothers, Missiles and the American President
As Narrator
Bad Apples
As Sylvia
Grace
As ACC Alison Vosper
Waking the Dead
As Pauline
The Pact
As DS Holland
Being April
My Almost Famous Family
As Shalondra
Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
Doctor Who
As Hostess
Maisie Raine
As D.C. Helen Tomlin
Midsomer Murders
As Alice Winning
Canterbury Tales
As Nicky Constable
Alex Rider
As Jo Byrne
Black Mirror
As Shelly
Vera
As Amber Haleford
Code of a Killer
As Helena Adarkwa
Sea of Souls
As Yemi
Soldier Soldier
As Bernie Roberts
Question Time
As Self - Panellist
Ready Steady Cook
As Self - Guest
Shetland
As Olivia Lennox
Saving Lives in Cardiff
As Self - Narrator
KAOS
As Persephone
Murder in Mind
As Cally
Gavin & Stacey
As The Registrar
Flowers
As Morag
