Eubha Akilade ( ; born 27 June 1998) is a Scottish actress and dancer, known for her roles as Lily Watson on the
CBBC
CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the bran ...
series ''
Eve
Eve (; ; ar, حَوَّاء, Ḥawwāʾ; el, Εὕα, Heúa; la, Eva, Heva; Syriac: romanized: ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the ...
'' (2015–2017) and Ines Le Breton on the
Hulu series ''
Find Me in Paris
''Find Me in Paris'' is an English-language teen science-fantasy dramedy series that premiered on April 14, 2018, on Hulu, produced by ZDF and Cottonwood Media. The series is filmed on location in Paris, in areas such as the Palais Garnier and O ...
'' (2018–2020).
Early life
Akilade was born on 27 June 1998 in
Cathcart
Cathcart ( sco, Kithcart, gd, Coille Chart)
, Scotland.
She is of Nigerian descent, was born to mother Christine, a
Macmillan Cancer Support nurse, and she has a brother and a sister.
Akilade began attending the
Dance School of Scotland
Knightswood Secondary School is a secondary school located in Knightswood in the west-end of Glasgow, Scotland.
The school is one of the city's largest secondaries with a roll of approximately 1500 pupils. Knightswood is co-educational, non- ...
in
Knightswood, but quit when she secured her role in ''
Eve
Eve (; ; ar, حَوَّاء, Ḥawwāʾ; el, Εὕα, Heúa; la, Eva, Heva; Syriac: romanized: ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the ...
''.
Career
Akilade made her professional debut as Lily Watson in the
CBBC
CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the bran ...
children's series ''Eve'' in 2015, a role she portrayed until 2017, despite having no formal training. Then in 2017, she appeared in two episodes of the
BBC Three
BBC Three is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes targeting 16 to 34-year-olds, covering all genres including animation, comedy, cur ...
series ''
Clique
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'' as a receptionist. Later that year, she was cast as Ines Lebreton in the
Hulu series ''
Find Me in Paris
''Find Me in Paris'' is an English-language teen science-fantasy dramedy series that premiered on April 14, 2018, on Hulu, produced by ZDF and Cottonwood Media. The series is filmed on location in Paris, in areas such as the Palais Garnier and O ...
'', a role she portrayed until 2020. On her casting, Akilade commented: "Within two weeks of the audition, I found out that I’d got the part and that I was flying to Paris for the next six months two weeks later".
Then in May 2020, she appeared in an episode of the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...
.