Biography
Olisa Odele is an English actor born on 14 November 1994 in Lewisham, London. He trained at the BRIT School and Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 2017.
As a child actor he appeared in forty episodes of the ITV series My Parents are Aliens (2004–2005). Later television roles include Ola in Chewing Gum (2015–2017), Cassius Chukwu in It's a Sin (2021), Damien in Starstruck (2022) and Jesus in Am I Being Unreasonable? (2022–2025). He played the main role of Yemi across all three series of the Channel 4 comedy drama Big Boys (2022–2025).
Other credits include Peter in the 2024 series Dead Hot and the stage role of Isom in the National Theatre tour of The Hot Wing King (2024).
