Naomi Ackie

Naomi Sarah Ackie (born 2 November 1992) is a British actress. She is known for her television roles in The End of the F***ing World (2019), for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Master of None (2021) and her film roles in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022), Blink Twice (2024), and Mickey 17 (2025).^[1]

Naomi Ackie was born on 2 November 1992^[2] in Walthamstow, London,^[3] the daughter of second-generation immigrants from Grenada.^[4] Her father was a Transport for London employee and her mother worked for the National Health Service.^[3] She has an older brother and sister.^[3] She went to Walthamstow School for Girls.

Her first role was at the age of 11, playing the angel Gabriel in a school nativity play.^[4] She studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated in 2012.^{[3] [5]}

Ackie's breakthrough film role was in Lady Macbeth (2016),^[6] for which she won the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2017.^[7] She subsequently appeared in Idris Elba's directorial debut Yardie (2018) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).^{[8] [9]} She also portrayed Bonnie in the second season of Netflix's black comedy series The End of the F***ing World ,^[10] and a school inspector in Education , an hour-long drama part of Steve McQueen's anthology film series Small Axe .^[11]

Ackie portrayed American singer Whitney Houston in the biographical film I Wanna Dance with Somebody .^[12] The film opened to mixed reviews but widespread praise for Ackie's performance, with Variety calling her "a veritable artist of lip-syncing."^[13] The Hollywood Reporter noted that Ackie herself is "a capable singer" and can be heard briefly in a few early scenes.^[14]

Ackie starred in Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut Blink Twice in 2024,^[15] and a year later starred opposite Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 , an adaptation of the science-fiction novel.^[16]

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• Black British actresses
• 21st-century English actresses
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• English people of Grenadian descent
• Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award (television) winners
• Actors from the London Borough of Waltham Forest
• Actresses from London
• Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
• Chopard Trophy for Female Revelation winners
• People from Walthamstow

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