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EXCLUSIVE: Range has signed British character Fola Evans-Akingbola for management.
Evans-Akingbola is champion known for her breakout domiciled arsenic Secret Service supplier Chelsea Arrington successful The Night Agent, Netflix’s deed action-thriller bid from Shawn Ryan, based connected nan Matthew Quirk caller of nan aforesaid name. After starring alongside Gabriel Basso successful nan show’s first season, which gave Netflix its third-most-viewed bid debut astatine nan time, she returned for nan precocious released 3rd season, which deed #2 connected level successful its first week successful February.
Evans-Akingbola antecedently garnered attraction for her move successful nan Prime Video bid Ten Percent, a British comedy-drama based connected nan celebrated French show Call My Agent. Additionally, she starred successful nan fantasy-drama Siren, which aired for 3 seasons connected Freeform, and appeared alongside Anthony Mackie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and much successful nan “Striking Vipers” section of Netflix’s Black Mirror.
More recently, Evans-Akingbola appeared other Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz successful Seth Gordon’s action-comedy Back successful Action, which debuted arsenic nan #1 English-language movie connected Netflix. Other movie activity includes VS., a British movie delving into nan UK municipality rap scene, wherever she starred other Connor Swindells, and Prime Video’s romanticist drama Upgraded.
Beyond acting, Evans-Akingbola wrote and directed Untold Stories: Hair connected Set, a BAFTA TV Award-nominated documentary exploring nan struggles of group of colour successful nan intermezo manufacture regarding nan styling and attraction of Afro, curly hair. She’s besides taken connected short-form projects, arsenic good arsenic sound activity for nan video crippled Assassin’s Creed: Origins. She continues to beryllium represented by B-Side Management successful nan UK and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
