Gbemisola Ikumelo

Gbemisola Ikumelo is a British actress, comedian and writer. She has won a BAFTA award for her short Brain in Gear and best female comedy performance from the Royal Television Society for her role in her show Famalam.

Gbemisola Ikumelo
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Actress, comedian, writer
Known forFamalam

Life and career

Ikumelo aspired to be a serious actress and at fifteen she was in the National Youth Theatre. She went on to study in Scotland at the Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Her break came when she was cast in Sunny D in 2015[1] playing the main character (Dane Baptiste)'s twin sister.[2]

She came to notice when her sketch show Famalam appeared on the BBC.[1] In 2021 she received an award for best female comedy performance in Famalam from the Royal Television Society.[3]

Ikumelo was awarded a TV BAFTA for her short film, titled Brain in Gear[1] in July 2020.[4]

Ikumelo is a main cast member on the Amazon series A League of Their Own. It concerns the creation of a women's American baseball team during the second world war and it is adapted from the 1992 film.[5]

It was announced in 2022 that Ikumelo would be starring in a new BBC series titled Black Ops with actor Hammed Animashaun and Famalam's producer Akemnji Ndifornyen. Ikumelo plays a woman who signs up to be a community police officer to improve her community, but she and her partner get involved in complication over six episodes. The series is destined for terrestrial channel BBC1 and streaming via the BBC's iplayer.[6]


Ikumelo was also named in 2022 for the cast of a remake of the 1989 film Road House with Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior and Billy Magnussen.[7]

For her performance in Clyde's at the Donmar Warehouse, London, Ikumelo was described by Sarah Hemming of Financial Times as "spectacularly scary" in the title role. [8]

References
  1. "Gbemisola Ikumelo: 'On the day I won the Bafta, I was in my PJs eating Domino's Pizza'". the Guardian. 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  2. "Sunny D – Dane Baptiste's sitcom is dizzyingly hilarious". the Guardian. 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  3. "RTS Programme Awards 2021". Royal Television Society. 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  4. Kanter, Jake (2020-07-31). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  5. Goldberg, Lesley (2020-02-14). "'A League of Their Own': Meet the Full Cast for Amazon's Comedic Reboot". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
  6. "Gbemisola Ikumelo, Hammed Animashaun and Akemnji Ndifornyen to lead Black Ops". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  7. David, Jamil. "'Road House' Remake With Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo And More Set At Prime Video". Shadow and Act. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  8. Hemming, Sarah (2023-10-25). "The Confessions, National Theatre review — a tough, moving portrait of a woman's life". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
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