Jimmy Akingbola
Birthday: Born in in London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Jimmy Akingbola is an English stage, television and film actor.
TV Credits
Holby Blue
Character: Constable Neil Parker
The police force at Holby South is tasked with the toughest job yet. Not only are they fighting the usual crime with drug offenders and gang members, but today they are faced with the threat of terrorism on their own soil. A Spin off from Holby City and Casualty....
The Royal
Character: Corporal Frederick Collins
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles....
The Crouches
Character: Dennis Ubakema
The Crouches is a sitcom that aired on BBC One between 2003 and 2005, starring Rudolph Walker. Other main cast members were Robbie Gee and Jo Martin. Walker played Robbie Gee's father, and Mona Hammond, who played Jo's mother. The show was not well received by critics and only two series were made. It ratings were moderate, attracting an average of 3 million viewers. Childhood sweethearts Roly Crouch and Natalie have been married for 18 years. Roly works at for the London Underground at Lambeth...
Bel-Air
Character: Geoffrey Thompson
The journey of a book smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the streets of west Philadelphia to live with his relatives in one of LA’s wealthiest suburbs....
Ballot Monkeys
Character: Martin
Political comedy set on the campaign buses of the main parties as they battle their way through the chaos of the election campaign....
Ballot Monkeys
Character: Baz
Political comedy set on the campaign buses of the main parties as they battle their way through the chaos of the election campaign....
Rev.
Character: Mick
Sitcom about a former rural parish vicar trying to cope with the varied demands of running an inner-city church....
Arrow
Character: Baron Reiter
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow....
The Tower
Character: DC Steve Bradshaw
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths....
Living the Dream
Character: Paul
A British family, the Pembertons, decide it’s time to leave rainy England and move to the sunshine state of Florida. They've bought an RV Park with plans for a booming family-run business, but it soon turns out that they are not going to be living the dream they hoped....
Blackbeard
Character: Black Caesar
Drama documentary about Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, who terrorised the British colonies in the Americas during the golden age of piracy....
In the Long Run
Character: Valentine Easmon
Set in 1980s London, this comedy series follows the Easmon family, which has settled in England after having arrived from Sierra Leone a decade earlier. The Easmons’ son, Akuna, hangs out in the housing project where the family lives, playing soccer and dodging the local thugs. The family’s life is turned upside down when Walter’s brother Valentine arrives in the U.K., bringing chaos in his wake and igniting a passion for music in Akuna....
Twenty Twelve
Character: Receptionist
A mock-documentary following the challenges - both personal and professional - faced by the team responsible for delivering the biggest show on Earth: the 2012 Olympics. From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind turbines won't turn because there's no wind, it's all in a day's work for the men and women whose job it is to stage the greatest sporting event in the world....
MacGyver
Character: Joseph
20-something Angus MacGyver creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening....
Most Dangerous Game
Character: Carter (uncredited)
Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter but the prey....
Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth
Character: Morda
The story of how Homo sapiens once shared the Earth with other species of hominid, and how, against all the odds, we survived....
Cheat
Character: DI Hammond
University lecturer Dr Leah Dale has always prided herself on her academic integrity so when final year student Rose, submits a suspiciously top-grade essay, Leah is quick to call her out. But there’s more going on than meets the eye as Rose takes the challenge as a personal affront, and what begins as a seemingly open and shut case of academic deception soon spirals out of control....
Bob Hearts Abishola
Character: Ade
A love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while recovering from a heart attack and sets his sights on winning her over....
Kate & Koji
Character: Koji
Kate runs an old-fashioned café in a seaside town, and develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with asylum-seeking African doctor Koji. Although from different worlds, Kate and Koji are similar in ways they do not see for themselves....
Death in Paradise
Character: Terrance Jackson
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie....
Ready Steady Cook
Character: Self - Guest
Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes...
Scorpion
Character: Jelani
Based on a true story, Scorpion is a high-octane drama about eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits who comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru....
Ted Lasso
Character: Ollie
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?...
Sorry, I Didn't Know
Character: Host
Jimmy Akingbola hosts a panel show which takes a tour of black history across the globe....
This Morning
Character: Self
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions....
Big School
Character: Dr Dalton
A comedy about a dysfunctional staff room, unrequited love and interactive whiteboards set in an urban secondary school. Chemistry teacher Mr. Church is hopelessly in love with the school's new French teacher, who in turn is being chased by a lothario gym teacher....
Movie Credits
Sarah Smile
Character: Uriel
While looking for some money, a homeless man stumbles upon an autistic girl named Sarah....
Othello
Character: Othello
Frantic Assembly takes Shakespeare’s muscular and beautiful text, combines its own bruising physicality, and presents an Othello firmly rooted in a volatile 21st century. This is a world of broken glass and broken promises, of poisonous manipulation and explosive violence....
Handle with Care: Jimmy Akingbola
Character: Self
Jimmy Akingbola reveals the truth of growing up in the care system in England, where the number of children in care has risen by a massive 28 per cent in the past decade to almost half a million....
Out of Darkness
Character:
A unique story told by nine different actors which explores the haunting of a conscience by lost souls that won't let go....
Habibti
Character: Marlon
A veiled Arab woman, steeped in tradition, journeys to London to visit her estranged daughter only to find her living with a black boyfriend.....
Anansi
Character: Kojo
The story of an adventurous odyssey experienced by a group of West Africans to build a new life in Germany....
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Character: Keen Petshop Keeper
Mr. Hoppy is a shy old man who lives alone in an apartment building. For many years, he has been secretly in love with Mrs. Silver, a woman who lives below him. Mr. Hoppy frequently leans over his balcony and exchanges polite conversation with Mrs. Silver, but he is too shy to disclose how he feels. Mr. Hoppy longs to express his feelings to Mrs. Silver, but he can never bring his lips to form the words. Mrs. Silver has a small pet tortoise, Alfie, whom she loves very much. One morning, Mrs....
Blood Cells
Character: Debo
A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and surreal journey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain....
Spectral
Character: Sgt. Steve McFadden
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city....
Full-Dress
Character: Bertie
Two friends set out to make a movie that will change their lives, but they borrow money from the wrong guy. When they lose their star, and the production falls apart, they become aware that the situation is much graver than once thought. As their fates are decided, the audience realizes everything is not as it seems....
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Character: Dandini
Olivia Colman leads a stellar cast of actors, entertainers and comedians in a very special ‘stay-at-home’ adaptation of Cinderella for Comic Relief....
Hero: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life & Times of Mr. Ulric Cross
Character: Kwame Nkrumah
Inspired by the life and times of Caribbean war hero, judge and diplomat Ulric Cross whose amazing life spanned key moments of the 20th Century like WW2, African independence movements, Black Power, the rise of a new brand of Black leadership around the world, events that define our present reality....
Rogue Agent
Character: Andrew
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice....