Naomi Ackie
Birthday: Born in 1992-11-02 in Walthamstow, London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Naomi Sarah Ackie (born 2 November 1992) is an English actress. She made her television debut as Jen in the Doctor Who episode "Face the Raven" (2015). For her role as Bonnie on the television dark comedy-drama series The End of the F***ing World, she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2020. Ackie is well known for her role as Jannah in the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). In 2021, she had a main role on the third season of Master of None. She also portrayed American singer Whitney Houston in the biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022), earning a Rising Star nomination at the British Academy Film Awards.
TV Credits
Master of None
Character: Alicia Jackson
30-year-old New York actor Dev takes on such pillars of maturity as the first big job, a serious relationship, and busting sex offenders on the subway....
Vera
Character: Louise Everitt
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage....
Doctor Who
Character: Jen
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
The Five
Character: Gemma Morgan
When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years later, Danny – now a detective – learns some shocking news. Jesse’s DNA has been found at a murder scene. He is alive and out there. Somewhere....
The Bisexual
Character: Ruby
Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality....
The End of the F***ing World
Character: Bonnie
James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father....
The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out....
Hot Ones Versus
Character: Self
Welcome to Hot Ones Versus! On this brand new, Hot Ones spinoff series, guests have two choices: Tell the truth, or suffer the wrath of the Last Dab. Whoever eats the most wings, loses!...
IMDb on the Scene
Character: Self
IMDb is on the scene at the hottest events to ask celebs the burning questions and get the answers that IMDb fans are dying to know....
Small Axe
Character: Hazel
An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s....
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
Character: Jedi Jannah (voice)
The entire Star Wars galaxy gets completely mixed up when an ordinary nerf-herder, Sig Greebling, unearths a powerful artifact from a hidden Jedi temple. He finds himself thrust into adventure in a new, wondrously wild and twisted version of the galaxy where good guys are bad, bad guys are good, and the fate of all depends on Sig becoming the hero who can put all the pieces back together....
Movie Credits
Morning
Character:
In the near future, society has developed a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams. The ambitious and driven Cathy was an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank, she finds the u...
Mickey 17
Character: Nasha
Mickey Barnes has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job... to die, for a living....
The Thursday Murder Club
Character: DC Donna De Freitas
Four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and, led by a former spy, form the Thursday Murder Club to solve cold cases for fun. But when a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live case....
Lady Macbeth
Character: Anna
Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants....
2073
Character:
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated....
Damilola, Our Loved Boy
Character: Council Worker
Drama exploring the story of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor, who died on a housing estate in South London in 2000. After leaving Nigeria to embark on a new life in the UK, the young Damilola and his family are full of optimism. Little do they realise that their lives are about to be shattered...
Yardie
Character: Mona
Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home. But 10 years later, when he’s sent to London, his past catches up to him....
The Corrupted
Character: Grace
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen, who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption....
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Character: Jannah
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins....
The Score
Character: Gloria
Mike and Troy, two small-time crooks, go to a roadside cafe for a meeting they hope to make a big profit from....
The Skywalker Legacy
Character: Self
The story lives forever in this feature-length documentary that charts the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....
I Used to Be Famous
Character: Amber
A culture clash between a washed-up pop star and a musically talented young man with autism. These opposite characters transform each other's worlds through the power of music....
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Character: Whitney Houston
The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom....
Blink Twice
Character: Frida
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade....
The Arrival
Character: Daisy
A young Jamaican woman arrives to Britain in 1962 to start a new life with her husband, but she carries a secret that could jeopardize everything....
I Love Boosters
Character:
A ring of enterprising boosters (aka shoplifters, equal opportunists) take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven....
Sorry, Baby
Character:
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least....