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Sophie Okonedo To Receive Richard Harris Award At 2024 BIFAs
Brit Okonedo was Oscar nominated for Hotel Rwanda and won a Tony for A Raisin In The Sun.
Previous recipients include Samantha Morton, Riz Ahmed, Kristin Scott Thomas, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Daniel Day-Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julie Walters, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and in 2023, Stephen Graham. She starred with Jessie Buckley in Tom Harper’s Wild Rose(2018), was a mysterious seer in Neil Marshall’s 2019 Hellboy reboot and a 1920s diva in Kenneth Branagh’s 2022 Death on the Nile. Most recently, she can be seen in Amazon Prime’s epic adaptation of The Wheel of Time, in Annie Baker’s debut feature film Janet Planet(2024) and starring in Apple TV+’s hit Slow Horses as MI5 Director Ingrid Tearney.
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