Kehinde Fadipe(born 17 June 1983) is a British actress.

Life

Kehinde Fadipe was born in

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in 1983. She gained a BA (Hons) in English Literature & Language before taking a second degree at the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sen ...

which she completed in 2009. Her first major role was in 2009 when she appeared in the

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's drama ''

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'' which won the Pulitzer Prize. Nottage's story is based around sexual violence in the

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. In 2011 she took a part in the BBC television crime story '' The Body Farm'' which was based on

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's 1994 book The Body Farm. She joined the third series of the teen drama Misfits where she played Melissa who was the female counterpart of the male character Curtis. Curtis was played by

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett Nathan Lloyd Stewart-Jarrett (born 4 December 1985) is a British actor, best known for starring as Curtis Donovan in the E4 series ''Misfits'' and as Ian in the Channel 4 series ''Utopia''. Early life Stewart-Jarrett was born in Wandsworth, ...

. In 2013 her marriage to Wole Olufunwa was filmed and distributed by Channels TV Metrofile.METROFILE: Kehinde Fadipe and Wole Odufunwa Get A Dream Portugese [sic] Wedding
Metrofile, Retrieved 3 February 2016 She has two children.

References

Nigerian actresses 1983 births Living people Actresses from London Yoruba actresses Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Black British actresses {{Nigeria-actor-stub