Sophie: When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.
Sophie: I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.
Sophie: But I'm pretty secure about who I am. Anything that's truthful I'm not ashamed of.
In 2001 she was nominated for a RTS Television Award for the movie Never-Never.
In 2006 at the Image Awards she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Hotel Rwanda.
In 2003 at the British Independent Film Awards she was nominated for Best Supporting Actor/Actress for the movie Dirty Pretty Things.
At the Academy Awards she was nominated in 2005 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for the movie Hotel Rwanda.
Okonedo attended Cambridge University.
Sophie was raised by her Jewish mother.
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