Sheila Atim is a Ugandan-British actress, singer, composer, and playwright.
21 Facts About Sheila Atim
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Sheila Atim made her professional acting debut in 2013 at Shakespeare's Globe in The Lightning Child, a musical written by her acting teacher Che Walker.
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Sheila Atim has composed songs for several productions and premiered her play Anguis at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Sheila Atim has been cast in several television series, including the cancelled Game of Thrones successor series Bloodmoon, the BBC's The Pale Horse and Amazon's The Underground Railroad, directed by Barry Jenkins.
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Sheila Atim was born c 1991 in Uganda and moved to the United Kingdom with her mother at the age of five months.
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Sheila Atim grew up in Rainham, London, and attended the Coopers' Company and Coborn School.
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Sheila Atim did some occasional modelling as a teenager after being recruited when she shaved the side of her head for a school prom.
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Sheila Atim appeared in a 2009 London Fashion Week event, All Walks beyond the Catwalk, organized by the British Fashion Council to showcase clothes for "real women".
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Sheila Atim graduated with a degree in biomedical science from King's College London and trained as an actor at the Weekend Arts Centre in Belsize Park, London.
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Sheila Atim became involved in a workshop for a new play, The Lightning Child, which led to her being cast by her acting teacher Che Walker for her professional acting debut at Shakespeare's Globe in 2013.
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What's On Stage praised her "mesmeric physical presence" and The Yorkshire Times review said that Sheila Atim "dominated the stage".
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Walker's The Etienne Sisters, which included songs composed by Sheila Atim, opened two days before the end of her run in Volpone.
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Sheila Atim received acclaim for her 2016 performances in the Donmar Warehouse's all-female Shakespeare Trilogy set in a women's prison, when she played Ferdinand in The Tempest, Gadshill and Lady Percy in Henry IV, and Lucius in Julius Caesar.
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The play is set during the Great Depression and Sheila Atim's character Marianne Laine is a black woman, who was adopted by a white couple that run a struggling guesthouse.
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The music for the show consists of songs by Bob Dylan and amongst the numbers that Sheila Atim performs are his "Tight Connection to My Heart " and "Idiot Wind".
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Sheila Atim presented her first play as an author, Anguis, at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Sheila Atim played Viola and Sebastian in a film version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and won the Screen Nation 2019 Best Female Performance film award.
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Sheila Atim composed the score for the play Time Is Love at London's Finborough Theatre in 2019, the year that she was named one of the cast of the Game of Thrones prequel series Bloodmoon.
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Sheila Atim appeared as an alleged witch in the 2020 BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse and in 2021 she appeared in the television series The Underground Railroad and The Irregulars and the film Bruised.
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In June 2019, Sheila Atim was named an MBE for her services to drama.
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Sheila Atim is on the Board of Trustees of The Old Vic Theatre Trust.