Fola Evans-Akingbola Bio, Wiki
Fola Evans-Akingbola is a British Actress and Model best known for her appearances in films such as Siren playing Maddie Bishop and The Night Agent playing Chelsea Arrington. She has also appeared in Ten Percent, Striking Vipers, Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, and Death in Paradise among others.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Age
Akingbola was born in London, England on 26th September 1994. She is 29 years old as of 2023 and she celebrates her birthday on the 26th of September every year.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Height/Measurements
Akingbola stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 7 inches.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Education
Akingbola attended Alleyn’s School in Dulwich, London where she graduated in the year 2012. She went for training at the National Youth Theatre, but when she was 12 years old, she stopped to concentrate on her schoolwork. Akingbola later joined the Identity School of Acting to resume acting training.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Career
Akingbola worked as a model before she began acting. She began her acting career in the series Youngsters and Holby City in the year 2014. As she was playing in the series Death in Paradise, Akingbola was cast in the HBO series, Game of Thrones playing the role of an unnamed 2nd wife of Khal Moro in the 6th season in 2016. In 2018, she joined the series Siren, acting as the main character in the role of Madelyn Bishop.
Akingbola co-wrote, directed, and produced the film, Grandma’s 80th Surprise and she has also done voiceover for the Assassin’s Creed video games. In 2019, she appeared in the Netflix series Black Mirror in the episode, Striking Vipers, playing the role of Mariella. She also appeared in the series Ten Percent, playing the role of Zoe Spencer in 2022. Akingbola later in 2023, appeared in the Netflix series The Night Agent playing the role of US secret agent Chelsea Arrington.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Net Worth
Throughout her career as an actress, Akingbola has been able to accumulate a net worth of around $1.2 Million.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Parents and Siblings
Akingbola was born in London, England, and raised in Bermondsey by her parents. Her mother, Gillian Evans is an English anthropologist while her father, Sola Akingbola, is a Nigerian musician and composer who sings in the band Jamiroquai. She has a sister named Omotayo Evans-Akingbola who is married to a white German. Omotaya is a musician, songwriter, and dancer, and has released a song album called Medicine.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Husband
Akingbola manages to keep information regarding whether or not she is in marriage private. An update of her marital status will be done when available.
Fola Evans-Akingbola The Night Agent
Akingbola appeared in the Netflix series The Night Agent in 2023, playing the role of Chelsea Arrington. Chelsea is a secret service agent whose duty is to protect the daughter of the vice president, Maddie (Sarah Desjardins), and works hard in her job to be successful in the male-dominated work field. She works alongside Erik Monks who took a bullet for the vice president to protect him from an attempted assassination. Chelsea teaches him to be Maddie’s security detail.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Siren
Akingbola played the role of Maddie Bishop in the film, Siren which aired from 2018 to 2020. Maddie is a marine biologist working at Bristol Cove Marine Research Center together with her ex-boyfriend Ben Pownall. Some years back, Maddie watched a video of a dolphin that had washed ashore. People around watched and passed by it while taking photos instead of helping it as it was dying. They continued taking selfies even after it died not considering that they would have saved it. This made her want to do something about it so she volunteered at Bristol Cove Marine Research Center and it later became her job. Maddie’s stepdad is the town’s sheriff and her mother, Susan, had left without a trace for the past year.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Game of Thrones
Akingbola appeared in the popular series, Game of Thrones in 2016, playing the role of Khal Moro’s second wife. Her husband is the leader of one of the tribes of Dothraki in the sixth season. She is a member of the main tribes of Dothraki who decides what is to be done to Daenerys when she is caught.
Fola Evans-Akingbola VS
Akingbola appeared in the film VS, which aired in 2018, playing the role of Makayla. She organizes rap battles where her ex-boyfriend gets into a conflict with Adam.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Ten Percent
Akingbola appeared in the television series Ten Percent which aired in 2022 as Zoe Spencer. Zoe works as a receptionist at Nightingale Hart and she is also an aspiring actress. She starts dating Dan who is excessively jealous.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Untold Stories: Hair on Set
Untold Stories: Hair on Set is a powerful documentary where British actress Fola Evans-Akingbola gathers some of the UK’s stars. Her aim is for the ladies to disclose the struggles of Afro hair on film sets when set crews fail to meet their needs in regard to their hair.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Ethnicity
Akingbola is of British Nationality and of Nigerian-British ethnicity, as her mother is a white England native and her father is a Nigerian.
Fola Evans-Akingbola Films
- Youngers
- Holby City
- Death in Paradise
- Game of Thrones
- An American Exorcism
- Dawn
- Assassin’s Creed: Origins
- Siren
- VS.
- Black Mirror
- Ten Percent
- The Night Agent
Fola Evans-Akingbola Twitter, and Instagram
She is vocal on her social media accounts where she posts frequently. On her Twitter account, she has about 823 followers and about 78K followers on her Instagram account.