Adelayo Adedayo is a BAFTA nominated actress from London who has starred in some of the biggest TV dramas of the past few years.
She earned her BAFTA nomination, as well as an RTS nomination, for her outstanding portrayal of rookie cop Rachel Hargreaves in the “authentic, propulsive, funny and powerful” BBC prime-time police drama ‘The Responder’ in 2022, starring opposite Martin Freeman, a role which she reprised in Series 2 in 2024.
2024 also saw her starring opposite Tosin Cole in Rapman’s “gripping and addictive" 'Supacell', a major Netflix series about a group of Black South Londoners, each with their own superpower. She played Cole’s on-screen girlfriend, social worker Dionne in the series, which has been renewed for a second season.
Her breakthrough part came in 2012 when she landed the lead role of Viva Bennett in the BBC Three sitcom ‘Some Girls’. The show ran for 3 series and followed the lives of four 16-year-old girls from South London as they navigate their final years at school and their aspirations for the future.
Other major roles include playing drummer Lauren in the BAFTA nominated ITV2 comedy series ‘Timewasters’ which ran for 2 series between 2017-2019 and followed an unsuccessful jazz quartet who time travel back to the 1920s. This was followed by a recurring role as Alma Dahmani in BAFTA nominated BBC thriller series ‘The Capture’, which starred Callum Turner. She also had a major role in the 8th and final series of ITV legal drama series ‘Law and Order: UK’.
She has a wealth of impressive TV credits such as ‘Skins’ (E4), ‘Lucky Man’ (Sky), Idris Elba’s ‘In the Long Run’ (Sky) and YouTube Original drama series ‘Origin’. She also starred in one of ITV’s ‘Unsaid Stories’ in 2020, one of four short films inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, playing a middle class black woman opposite Joe Cole who played her working class white ex-boyfriend.
Her films include the action thriller ‘Unlocked’ which starred Orlando Bloom, Michael Douglas, Toni Colette and John Malkovich, and the British indie thriller ‘Jet Trash’.
One of her many stage highlights was her "superb" performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 2021 in the Tarantino-esque ‘Is God Is’.
★★★★★ "A theatre production that has the audience gasping aloud in genuine shock is a rare thing, but ‘Is God Is’ achieves it (and then some)” - The Independent
Adelayo hails from Dagenham in South London and speaks with a South London accent. She is often mistaken for being from Warrington due to her convincing accent playing Rachel in the 'Responder'. She is of Yoruba Nigerian descent and can transition easily into a Nigerian accent and has a strong range of other accents up her sleeve including American.
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