
Acting
Community Rating
7.5
TMDB estimate
Born
January 1, 1997 (age 29)
Born in
Surrey, England, UK
Shaniqua Okwok is a British actress. She is best known for her roles as Maia in Paramount+ series The Flatshare (2022) and Dominique in the Sky Max series Wolfe (2021). Okwok has also made appearances as Solly Babatunde in It's a Sin (2021), Patty in Small Axe, Lotta Nagel in Van der Valk, and Leah in War of the Worlds. Okwok was born in Surrey to a Ugandan mother and a Jamaican father. She attended The BRIT School and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she graduated in 2018. After receiving the Laurence Olivier Bursary Award from the Official London Theatre in 2017, she went on to make her television debut on BBC One in 2018 as Helen Nedarson in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators. Okwok originally wanted to be a stock broker and planned to study economics at LSE. However, she claims she "fell into acting and it kept falling into place" Okwok got involved in social justice work early on in her acting career. Following her graduation from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and during the summer of 2020, Okwok led a student campaign of hundreds to call out the "words and actions of open and overt racism" that occurred during her tenure at the institute, including an incident of being called a "slave" during a class. Okwok remains an active advocate for the protection of minority actors to this day.

Maigret
as Janvier
2025

Bookish
as Linda Bruce
2025

Verrucaway
as Beth Dixon
2024

Girl on Girl
2023

Capture
as Employee
2023

The Flatshare
as Maia
2022

I Love You, I Hate You
as Annie
2021

Wolfe
as Dominique
2021

It's a Sin
as Solly Babatunde
2021

Small Axe
as Patty
2020

Acrimonious
as Kehinde
2020

Anthony
as Dominique Walker
2020

Van der Valk
as Lotta Nagel
2020

War of the Worlds
as Leah
2019

Sick of It
as Waitress
2018

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
as Helen Nedarson
2018