Biography
Fisayo Akinade is an English actor. He was born on 28 December 1987 in Liverpool and trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Akinade's television breakthrough came in 2015 with the role of Dean Monroe in the Channel 4 series Cucumber and its companion Banana. In film he played Kieran Gallagher in The Girl with All the Gifts (2016). He is also known for portraying Mr Ajayi in the Netflix series Heartstopper (2022–).
His stage work includes appearances at the National Theatre, such as Reverend Hale in The Crucible.
