Sophie Okonedo: 30 years on stage, from the RSC to Broadway – in pictures
As she plays Medea in the West End, take a look back at the star’s theatre roles including Cleopatra, Cressida and Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun
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As Amie in A Jovial Crew by Richard Brome at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1992. Okonedo joined the RSC after leaving Rada
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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Playing Nausicaa, holding hands with Jonathan Cake as Antinous, in The Odyssey by Derek Walcott for the RSC at the Other Place theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1992
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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Ben Daniels as Tiger and Okonedo as Palace in 900 Oneonta by David Beaird at the Old Vic, London, 1994
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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Okonedo and Susan Tracy in His Lordship’s Fancy by Carlo Goldoni at the Gate theatre, London, 1994
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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David Bamber (Pandarus), Peter de Jersey (Troilus) and Okonedo (Cressida) in Troilus and Cressida on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage, London, 1999
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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With Paul Higgins and Peter Wight in Martin Crimp’s short play Face to the Wall at the Royal Court in London, 2002
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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With Jack Boulter in Haunted Child by Joe Penhall at the Royal Court in 2011
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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Okonedo and Denzel Washington as Ruth and Walter Younger in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry at the Ethel Barrymore theatre in New York, 2014. Okonedo won a Tony award for her performance
Photograph: Brigitte Lacombe/Philip Rinaldi Publicity
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Okonedo as Stevie with Damian Lewis as Martin in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2017
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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Ralph Fiennes and Okonedo took the title roles in Antony and Cleopatra at the National’s Olivier theatre in London in 2018. Okonedo’s co-stars included live snakes
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Okonedo plays Medea at the new West End theatre @sohoplace in a production directed by Dominic Cooke. Medea runs from 10 February to 22 April
