---
name: "Chizzy Akudolu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chizzy-akudolu"
fi1m_id: "chizzy-akudolu"
imdb_id: "nm1599744"
tmdb_id: 63255
wikidata_id: "Q3675265"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 October 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T20:01:34.414706+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Chizzy Akudolu

## Identity

Chizzy Akudolu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chizzy-akudolu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chizzy-akudolu
- **IMDb ID:** nm1599744
- **TMDB ID:** 63255
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3675265
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chizzy_Akudolu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3675265, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1599744/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63255

Actor. Born 7 October 1973 in England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 October 1973, England, UK
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (1), 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 78 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, Sport 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chizzy_Akudolu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3675265, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1599744/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63255

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Best Interests*](https://film.one/tv/best-interests.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Chizzy Akudolu is a British actress. Born Andrea Chizoba Akudolu on 7 October 1973 in Harlesden, London, she began her career in 2002 after winning a place in the BBC Talent Initiative's Urban Sketch Showcase, which led to her first television appearances.

Her early credits include roles in *15 Storeys High*, *EastEnders*, *Green Wing* and the 2008 series *Dead Set*, in which she played Angel. She gained wider recognition as the lead in the CBBC series *Jinx* (2009) and as Mo Effanga in the BBC medical drama *Holby City* (2012–2022).

Akudolu has appeared in *The Inbetweeners*, *Man vs Bee* (2022), *The Woman in the Wall* (2023), *Best Interests* (2023) as Mercy, *Beyond Paradise* and *Criminal Record* (2024). She has also worked as a presenter and team captain on *Sorry I Didn't Know*, and competed on *Strictly Come Dancing* in 2017.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Criminal Record* (2024), Fi1m 81, as Jasmine Peters — [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-record.md)
- *Best Interests* (2023), Fi1m 76, as Mercy — [page](https://film.one/tv/best-interests.md)
- *Twenty Twelve* (2011), Fi1m 77, as Jane Owen — [page](https://film.one/tv/twenty-twelve.md)
- *Dead Set* (2008), Fi1m 77, as Angel — [page](https://film.one/tv/dead-set.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Little Disasters* (2025), series, as Lucy Harding
- *A Game of Two Halves* (2024), as Dr. Bygraves
- *Criminal Record* (2024), series, as Jasmine Peters — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-record.md)
- *Dope Fiend* (2023), Actor
- *The Woman in the Wall* (2023), series, as Lola
- *Best Interests* (2023), series, as Mercy — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/best-interests.md)
- *Beyond Paradise* (2023), series, as Reverend Kate
- *Supertato* (2022), series, as Pumpkin (voice)
- *Man vs Bee* (2022), series, as Judge
- *The Ultimate Adventure Movies* (2022), Actor
- *Drama Shorts: BBC Introducing Arts* (2021), Writer
- *Too Close* (2021), series, as Addy Smith
- *Grace* (2021), series, as Maggie Hayton
- *County Lines* (2020), as Sophie
- *Hitmen* (2020), series, as Tina Bartrum
- *Kate & Koji* (2020), series, as Lisa
- *Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators* (2018), series, as Sandra Kingly
- *Rwd/Fwd* (2016), as Kim
- *Life’s a Bitch* (2013), Executive Producer, Writer
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, as Butterfly Brown
- *Campus* (2011), series, as Grace 2
- *Twenty Twelve* (2011), series, as Jane Owen — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/twenty-twelve.md)
- *Mongrels* (2010), series, as Worker
- *Jinx* (2009), series, as Cookie
- *Scoop* (2009), series, as Carol (Security Guard), Policewoman, Lorraine
- *Dustbin Baby* (2008), as Railway Woman
- *Dead Set* (2008), series, as Angel — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/dead-set.md)
- *The Inbetweeners* (2008), series, as Magpie — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-inbetweeners.md)
- *The Most Unromantic Man in the World* (2006), as Chizzy
- *Stupid!* (2004), series, as Various Characters
- *Green Wing* (2004), series, as Car Park Attendant — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/green-wing.md)
- *15 Storeys High* (2002), series, as Melinda
- *Holby City* (1999), series, as Mo Effanga

## Gallery

- ![Chizzy Akudolu](https://film.one/media/person/373102/gallery-6241b7bd54f1.jpg) Chizzy Akudolu — Olivia Landsberg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Chizzy_Akudolu%2C_The_Comedy_School.jpg/1280px-Chizzy_Akudolu%2C_The_Comedy_School.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chizzy Akudolu](https://film.one/media/person/373102/gallery-69f2f7d15cb5.jpg) Chizzy Akudolu — Image via TMDB
- ![Chizzy Akudolu](https://film.one/media/person/373102/gallery-994a88e47581.jpg) Chizzy Akudolu — Image via TMDB

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