Toheeb Jimoh is a British-Nigerian actor. He earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and won both a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Critic's Choice Breakthrough Award for his performance as Sam Obisanya in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso (2020–2023).
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Early life and education
Toheeb Jimoh was born in Brixton, London, South London, to parents of Nigerian descent. He moved to Nigeria as a toddler and returned to London when he was seven.
He attended The Norwood School before going on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2018.
Career
Jimoh, in 2020, played Anthony Walker, the victim of a 2005 racist attack, in BBC One's Anthony, which imagines Walker's life if he had not been killed. His portrayal was called "utterly magnetic". He then portrayed Marcus in the Amazon series The Feed.
Jimoh was in a stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Sheffield Crucible and in 2020, was one of six performers in the Almeida Theatre's Christmas Play Nine Lessons and Carols, the theatre's first production post London's COVID-19 lockdown.
