Hammed Animashaun

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Hammed Animashaun
Born (1991-05-06) 6 May 1991 (age 33)
Whitechapel, London, England
Occupation(s)Actor, writer
Television Black Ops
The Wheel of Time

Hammed Animashaun (born 6 May 1991) is a British stage, film and television actor. He won Best Male Comedy Performance at the 2024 Royal Television Society Programme Awards

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Early life

Animashaun was born into a Nigerian family in Whitechapel in London. His father was a bus driver and his mother a voluntary worker. [1] He had a growth spurt in college and one summer grew five inches. His younger brother is 6 ft 9”. [2] Animashaun himself is 6 ft 3”. He was encouraged by his school drama teacher to join the Half Moon Children's Theatre in London's Limehouse. [3] He studied philosophy with drama at university but dropped out when offered theatre roles. [4]

Career

Stage

He received second prize in the 2021 Ian Charleson Awards which recognise actors under the age of 30 in classical roles, for his role as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bridge Theatre. [5] He also won Best Supporting Actor at the WhatsOnStage Awards for the same production. [6] [7] Other stage roles have included "Master Harold"...and the Boys, Athol Fugard's drama set in apartheid South Africa, one of the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella at the Lyric Hammersmith, The Producers at the Manchester Royal Exchange, the original production of the Barber Shop Chronicles , Rufus Norris's staging of The Threepenny Opera at the National and Michael Longhurst's revival of Amadeus. [8] [9]

Television

Animashaun appeared as Loial in the Amazon Prime Video series The Wheel of Time beginning in 2021. He stars in the 2023 BBC One comedy television series Black Ops , alongside Gbemisola Ikumelo and Akemnji Ndifornyen, playing an undercover policeman woefully out of his depth. His character, Kay, has been described as a "glass-half-full, God-fearing gentle giant and the opposite of street-smart." He described the role on the show as a "dream come true" and that he kept expecting to be replaced for a bigger named actor in the role. [10] He has been praised for his chemistry with Ikumelo. [11]

He won Best Male Comedy Performance at the 2024 Royal Television Society Programme Awards. [12] [13] In March 2024, Animashaun was nominated in the Male performance in a comedy programme category at the 2024 British Academy Television Awards. [14]

Writing

In 2023, he was awarded one of two scripted creators in residence for BBC Studios TalentWorks to work with producers on scripted comedy and drama. [15] [16]

Partial filmography

2016 Flowers Ryan3 episodes
2017 Black Mirror Pizza GuyEpisode USS Callister
2017 The Festival ShaneFilm
2017-2018 Pls Like Johnny Jackson5 episodes
2019 Cunk & Other Humans on 2019 Various6 episodes
2021–present The Wheel of Time Loial11 episodes
2023 Black Ops KayLead role

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References

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