1. Toheeb Gbolabo O Jimoh was born on 15 April 1997 and is an English actor.
14 Facts About Toheeb Jimoh
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Toheeb Jimoh earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance as Sam Obisanya in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso.
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Toheeb Jimoh is known for his roles in the BBC One biographical film Anthony and the Amazon Prime series The Power.
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Toheeb Jimoh moved to Nigeria as a toddler and returned to London when he was seven.
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Toheeb Jimoh attended The Norwood School before going on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2018.
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Toheeb Jimoh was a relative newcomer to acting when he was cast to play Anthony Walker, the victim of a 2005 racist attack, in BBC One's Anthony, which imagines Walker's life if he had not been killed.
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Toheeb Jimoh then portrayed Marcus in the Amazon series The Feed.
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Toheeb Jimoh was in a stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Sheffield Crucible and in 2020, was one of six performers in the Almeida Theatre's Christmas Play Nine Lessons and Carols, the theatre's first production post London's COVID-19 lockdown.
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When Toheeb Jimoh auditioned for Ted Lasso, the character of Sam Obisanya was written as Ghanaian, but his background was changed to Nigerian to match Toheeb Jimoh's own.
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Toheeb Jimoh's performance has received praise, with his character called the "heartbeat" of the show.
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Toheeb Jimoh portrays another Nigerian character, journalist Tunde, in the Amazon thriller series The Power, based on Naomi Alderman's novel of the same name.
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Toheeb Jimoh has a small part in the Wes Anderson film The French Dispatch.
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Toheeb Jimoh played Romeo in a summer 2023 production of Romeo and Juliet at the Almeida Theatre in London.
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In 2024, Toheeb Jimoh played Hal in Player Kings, an adaption of Shakespeare's Henry IV part 1 and 2 by Robert Icke which co-stars Ian McKellen and Richard Coyle.