Fisayo Akinade
Birthday: Born in 1987-12-28 in Hackney, London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Fisayo Akinade is a stage, film and television actor.
TV Credits
Great Performances
Character: Mercutio
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries....
Heartstopper
Character: Mr Ajayi
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series....
Cucumber
Character: Dean Monroe
Original drama series from Russell T Davies exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life, beginning with the most disastrous date night in history....
Banana
Character: Dean Monroe
Through eight stand-alone stories, this series follows different aspects of LGBT life. Each episode focuses on the unique storyline of a diverse character dealing with life, loves and losses. Scotty is a young lesbian dealing with unrequited love, while Dean harbors family secrets and has an affair with a mystery man from Newcastle. Sian is torn between her lover and her overprotective mother. Helen has an ex who won't leave her alone....
In the Dark
Character: Theo
DI Helen Weeks grapples with pregnancy as she undertakes a very personal abduction case....
A Very English Scandal
Character: Clive Otunde
It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide....
Tofu
Character: Dean
YouTuber Benjamin Cook explores modern sex in all its variety, interviewing members of the public and the cast of dramas Cucumber and Banana....
Atlanta
Character: Khalil
Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families....
Showtrial
Character: Felix Owusu
An anthology series of hotly contested criminal trials that divides the nation and take place in the full glare of the media spotlight....
Movie Credits
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Character: Markham
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity....
National Theater Live: The Crucible
Character:
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lindsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, design by Tony award winner Es Devlin. Captured live from the Olivier stage of the n...
The Vote
Character: Jonathan Clarke
On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close....
The Girl with All the Gifts
Character: Kieran Gallagher
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity....
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
Character: Iago
A short film set in modern times with Shakespeare's language....
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Flute
At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring......
National Theatre Live: Saint Joan
Character: The Dauphin
Josie Rourke directs Gemma Arterton as Joan of Arc in Bernard Shaw's electrifying classic. Performed at the Donmar Warehouse, and part of the NT Live series of broadcasts....
The Isle
Character: Cailean Ferris
1840 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the few locals take them in as they wait for the mainland boat to come for them. But the sailors' survival story has only just started as they uncover the strange past of the once vibrant island....
Martin's Close
Character: William
A young squire accused of murdering a young girl that did not return his feelings of love reveals a supernatural secret at his trial....
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Character: Eros
Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war....
National Theatre Live: Barber Shop Chronicles
Character: Samuel
For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Follow along as we leap from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day....
Romeo & Juliet
Character: Mercutio
An adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy set in modern-day Italy where two young lovers strive to transcend a violent world where Catholic and secular values clash....