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Chizzy Akudolu | |
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| Born | Andrea Chizoba Akudolu 7 October 1973 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Known for | Holby City , Jinx , Dead Set |
Andrea Chizoba "Chizzy" Akudolu (born 7 October 1973) is a British actress. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
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Chizzy Akudolu | |
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| Born | Andrea Chizoba Akudolu 7 October 1973 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Known for | Holby City , Jinx , Dead Set |
Andrea Chizoba "Chizzy" Akudolu (born 7 October 1973) is a British actress. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
In 2002, Akudolu was one of eight new comedy performers who won the BBC Talent Initiative, The Urban Sketch Showcase. All eight performed a comedy sketch show in front of BBC casting directors and producers at the Tabernacle Theatre in Notting Hill. Her first television appearance was in the BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High . This was followed by a small role in EastEnders . She continued to work for the BBC in her first children's series called Stupid! and Roman's Empire . Credits also include Green Wing and Dustbin Baby for Kindle Entertainment and as a caricature of herself in the mockumentary The Most Unromantic Man in the World. Akudolu also played series regular Miss Kanouti in The Complete Guide to Parenting . She has continued to work for CBBC in programmes such as Nuzzle and Scratch , Scoop and Gigglebiz . In 2007, she toured with The Vagina Monologues for three months. In 2008, Akudolu played the housemate, Angel, in Dead Set , a zombie parody of Big Brother . In 2009, she had a guest role in Hollyoaks Later and starred in the CBBC show Jinx in the lead role as the unconventional Fairy Godmother, Cookie. In 2010 Akudolu appeared in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret , Twenty Twelve , The Inbetweeners , and as a semi-regular in the Channel 4 comedy Campus .
Since May 2012, Akudolu has played the role of the surgeon Mo Effanga in Holby City . In 2017, it was announced that Akudolu was departing Holby City after five years. She was nominated and won the award for "Best Newcomer" at the Black International Film Festival and Music Video & Screen Awards. She has also won the Best Actress in the same year at BEFFTA Awards. She was nominated for the "Emerging Talent" award at the 8th Annual Screen Nation Awards. [9]
In 2017, Akudolu took part in Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief with a duo from Casualty. The trio performed "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars and came second place. In 2017, she took part in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One. She was the first celebrity to be eliminated after a disappointing Foxtrot which lacked flow and the traditional format of the dance. [10] Akudolu took part in The Weakest Link one-off celebrity episode for Children in Need . She was the strongest link in five out of the six rounds, and beat Rylan Clark-Neal in the final round to win, earning £1,130 for Children in Need, which the programme doubled.
2018 saw Akudolu compete on Richard Osman's House of Games , televised on BBC Two, [11] alongside Tom Allen, Charlie Higson, and Kate Williams. [12] Having won one of the episodes in her week, she returned for a House of Champions special along with Miles Jupp, Amol Rajan and Ellie Taylor, broadcast in 2020. [13]
In January 2019, Akudolu played Butterfly Brown in Death in Paradise . [14]
In 2022, Akudolu competed in Celebrity Hunted for Stand up to Cancer. She was caught third in the series, with her teammate Lisa Mafia caught shortly after her.
She also made a guest appearance in ITV's sitcom Kate and Koji as Lisa.
She has a brown belt in karate and is an experienced calligrapher. Her mother was a midwife. [ citation needed ]
| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
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| 2004 | 15 Storeys High | Melinda | Episode: "Vince the Shirker" |
| EastEnders | Mattie George | 1 episode | |
| Stupid! | Various | Series regular | |
| 2006 | Green Wing | Car Parking Attendant | 1 episode |
| The Complete Guide to Parenting | Miss Kanouti | Series regular | |
| 2007 | Roman's Empire | Mummy | 1 episode |
| 2008 | Nuzzle and Scratch | Whippety Whips Lady | Episode: "Ice Cream Van" |
| Dead Set | Angel | Series regular | |
| Dustbin Baby | Railway Woman | Television film | |
| 2009 | In the Loop | U.N Cleaner | Film |
| Agent X | Alice | Television film | |
| Hollyoaks Later | Receptionist | ||
| Jinx | Cookie | Series regular | |
| Gigglebiz | Various | Series regular [15] | |
| 2010 | The Inbetweeners | Maggie | Episode: "Will's Dilemma" |
| The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret | Shopper | ||
| 2011 | Twenty Twelve | Jane Owen | |
| Campus | Grace 2 | Series regular | |
| Scoop | Lorraine | Episode: "Northenders" | |
| Mongrels | Office Worker | Episode: "Nelson and the Amazing Nuts" | |
| 2012 | Silent Witness | Nurse | Episode: "And Then I Fell in Love" |
| 2012–2017, 2018, 2022 | Holby City | Mo Effanga | Series regular |
| 2015 | 5 Minutes | Denise | |
| 2016 | Hood Documentary | Julie | |
| 2016, 2020– | Sorry, I Didn't Know | Panelist | 10 episodes |
| 2017 | Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief | Herself | |
| Strictly Come Dancing | Series 15 | ||
| 2017, 2022 | The Weakest Link | Children in Need special (2017) | |
| 2018 | Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators | Sandra Kingly | Episode: "The Chameleon's Dish" |
| Celebrity MasterChef | Herself | Eliminated | |
| Impossible Celebrities | |||
| 2018–2019 | Loose Women | Panellist (20 episodes) | |
| 2018, 2020 | Richard Osman's House of Games | ||
| 2019 | Death in Paradise | Butterfly Brown | |
| Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star | Herself | Guest star | |
| Hetty Feather | Mrs. Doughty | Christmas special | |
| 2020 | County Lines | Sophie | |
| Hapless | June Brady | ||
| Chef vs Cornershop | Host (5 episodes) | ||
| 2021 | Too Close | The Squeak | |
| Creating A Scene | Presenter | ||
| 2022 | Celebrity Hunted | Herself / Fugitive | Caught 3rd in the series |
| Kate and Koji | Lisa | Episode: "Koji's Date" | |
| Man vs. Bee | Judge | 2 episodes | |
| 2023 | Pointless Celebrities | Contestant | Series 16, episode 8 [16] |
| Best Interests | Mercy | 4 episodes [17] | |
| 2023 | Blankety Blank | Celebrity | |
| 2024 | Criminal Record | Jasmine Peters | 3 episodes |
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