Cast Detail: Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo

Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo has an impressive resume of stage and screen credits to her name. She trained at RADA and, soon after, won roles in Suspects (Channel 5), Cold Feet (ITV) and the BAFTA-nominated Chewing Gum (E4) and NW (BBC). In 2017, she had a memorable turn in Doctor Who (BBC), playing Penny in the episode Extremis opposite Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord in the 10th season of this long-running science fiction show. Her stand out role came as Yvonne in BFI and Film4 musical feature, Been So Long, and she followed this with a cameo in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One as well as appearing as Katherine Dane in Disney’s biographical drama Christopher Robin (both 2018). She has also just wrapped on Italian drama The Big Other for X-Filme. As well as acting, Ronke also writes (although she prefers the term storyteller). Her play Teleportation formed part of Steven Kavuma’s This Is Black Festival in the summer of 2019, earning her much recognition and praise.

Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo has an impressive resume of stage and screen credits to her name. She trained at RADA and, soon after, won roles in Suspects (Channel 5), Cold Feet (ITV) and the BAFTA-nominated Chewing Gum (E4) and NW (BBC). In 2017, she had a memorable turn in Doctor Who (BBC), playing Penny in the episode Extremis opposite Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord in the 10th season of this long-running science fiction show. Her stand out role came as Yvonne in BFI and Film4 musical feature, Been So Long, and she followed this with a cameo in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One as well as appearing as Katherine Dane in Disney’s biographical drama Christopher Robin (both 2018). She has also just wrapped on Italian drama The Big Other for X-Filme. As well as acting, Ronke also writes (although she prefers the term storyteller). Her play Teleportation formed part of Steven Kavuma’s This Is Black Festival in the summer of 2019, earning her much recognition and praise.