Amaka Okafor is an actor who has starred in Bodies on Netflix, The Responder and The Split on BBC One and the film version of the Take That musical Greatest Day. 

In 2023 Screen International named her as a Star of Tomorrow and she is starring in the upcoming Netflix series Black Rabbit alongside Jason Bateman and Jude Law this September - so it’s safe to say she is going places!

Over the course of our conversation, we spoke about race as it was her love of Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop that made her want to be an actress, the importance of representation and female friendship as demonstrated by her TV choice Insecure and the joy from the unexpected in the podcast Heavyweight. With her book choice Rebecca we explored the protagonist’s tendency to make herself small and insignificant and how that is a behaviour still common among women almost one hundred years later. 

Amaka’s choices:

Film - Beverly Hills Cop

TV Show - Insecure

Podcast - Heavyweight

Book - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

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