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name: "Shaniqua Okwok"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shaniqua-okwok"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T21:13:59.801657+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."
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# Shaniqua Okwok

Actor. Born 1 January 1997 in Surrey, England, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1997, Surrey, England, UK
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116877233, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8925463/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2478463

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*It's a Sin*](https://film.one/tv/its-a-sin.md) (84)

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## Biography

Shaniqua Okwok is a British actress. She was born in Surrey to a Ugandan mother and a Jamaican father. She attended The BRIT School and graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2018.

Okwok received the Laurence Olivier Bursary Award in 2017. Her television debut came in 2018 as Helen Nedarson in *Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators*. She is known for roles including Solly Babatunde in *It's a Sin* (2021), Patty in *Small Axe* (2020), Lotta Nagel in *Van der Valk* (2020), Leah in *War of the Worlds* (2019), Dominique in *Wolfe* (2021), and Maia in *The Flatshare* (2022). She has also appeared in *Maigret* (2025) as Berthe Janvier.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *It's a Sin* (2021), Fi1m 84, as Solly Babatunde — [page](https://film.one/tv/its-a-sin.md)
- *Small Axe* (2020), Fi1m 88, as Patty — [page](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md)

## Also known for

- *War of the Worlds* (2019), Leah
- *Van der Valk* (2020), Lotta Nagel
- *Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators* (2018), Helen Nedarson
- *Bookish* (2025), Linda Bruce
- *The Flatshare* (2022), Maia

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