---
name: "Olisa Odele"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/olisa-odele"
fi1m_id: "olisa-odele"
imdb_id: "nm1797209"
tmdb_id: 1835574
wikidata_id: "Q7086958"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 November 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T14:35:53.464958+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."
---

# Olisa Odele

## Identity

Olisa Odele

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/olisa-odele
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** olisa-odele
- **IMDb ID:** nm1797209
- **TMDB ID:** 1835574
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7086958
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olisa_Odele, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7086958, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1797209/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1835574

Actor. Born 14 November 1994 in Lewisham, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 November 1994, Lewisham, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (1), 2020s 81 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 83 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 4, Drama 2
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olisa_Odele, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7086958, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1797209/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1835574

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Big Boys*](https://film.one/tv/big-boys.md) (81)
- **Apple TV:** [*Chewing Gum*](https://film.one/tv/chewing-gum.md) (78)

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

## 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).

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Big Boys* (2022), Fi1m 81, as Yemi — [page](https://film.one/tv/big-boys.md)
- *It's a Sin* (2021), Fi1m 84, as Cassius Chukwu — [page](https://film.one/tv/its-a-sin.md)
- *Starstruck* (2021), Fi1m 79, as Damien — [page](https://film.one/tv/starstruck.md)
- *Chewing Gum* (2015), Fi1m 78, as Ola — [page](https://film.one/tv/chewing-gum.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Lady* (2026), Actor
- *Sweetheart* (2025), as Thunderbum
- *National Theatre at Home: The Hot Wing King* (2024), as Isom
- *Dead Hot* (2024), series, as Peter
- *Surprised by Oxford* (2023), as Fred
- *Big Boys* (2022), series, as Yemi — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/big-boys.md)
- *Starstruck* (2021), series, as Damien — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/starstruck.md)
- *It's a Sin* (2021), series, as Cassius Chukwu — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/its-a-sin.md)
- *Down from London* (2019), series, as Robin
- *Sick of It* (2018), series, as Olly
- *Black Earth Rising* (2018), series, Actor's Assistant
- *Mumatar* (2018), as Daniel
- *Chewing Gum* (2015), series, as Ola — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/chewing-gum.md)
- *My Parents Are Aliens* (1999), series, as C.J.

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