Oluwakemi Nina Sosanya (born 6 June 1969) is an English actress and narrator. She is most notable for her roles in Teachers, W1A, and Last Tango in Halifax.
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Early life and education
Oluwakemi Nina Sosanya was born in 1969 in Islington, London, to a Nigerian father and an English mother.
For a short time, she attended the Vale of Catmose College in Oakham and later trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
Career
Sosanya has appeared in many roles in the theatre, on television and in films. Her first big break in theatre was in Anthony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre, and in television with the 2001 series Teachers when she appeared as English teacher Jenny Paige. She also appeared in Sorted, People Like Us, Love Actually, Nathan Barley, Renaissance, Casanova, as Karen Blaine in the Jonathan Creek episode "The Three Gamblers", Much Ado About Nothing, Cape Wrath/Meadowlands, the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her", and FM.
