Shola Adewusi

Acting

Shola Adewusi

Shola Adewusi (born 1963) is a British actress of Nigerian descent, of stage, screen and radio. Her television work includes Little Miss Jocelyn, the BBC comedy sketch show series written by and starring Jocelyn Jee Esien. In addition, Adewusi has appeared on television in 'Lewis'(Season 3, Episode 4), My Hero, The Bill, Casualty, Bad Girls, Family Affairs, Emmerdale, and Chewing Gum. She previously appeared in CBS's Bob Hearts Abishola as Auntie Olu. She has also acted in a number of radio productions for the BBC World Service. She is a member of staff at the Intermission Youth Theatre. She played a cameo part in their hit play Verona Road. Her work also includes her role in Paddington 2. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shola Adewusi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Paddington 2 poster
7.5

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Paddington 2

2017

Outcome poster
5.4

Reef Hawk, Hollywood's poster child since age six, is not okay. When he learns about an extortion plot tied to a mysterious video, Reef preemptively sets out on a redemption tour to make amends, confront his demons, and avoid getting canceled.

Outcome

2026

Christopher Robin poster
7.3

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

Christopher Robin

2018

Babes poster
5.9

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

Babes

2024

Quartet poster
6.5

Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.

Quartet

2012

A Long Way Down poster
6.2

Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a failed musician—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, a London high-rise with the well-earned nickname Topper's Tower, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family. They become media sensations as the Topper House Four and search together for reasons to keep on living.

A Long Way Down

2014

The Riot Club poster
5.9

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.

The Riot Club

2014

Ra.One poster
5.7

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

Ra.One

2011

Miss You Already poster
7.4

The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

Miss You Already

2015

Cider with Rosie poster
5.4

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

Cider with Rosie

2015

Damilola, Our Loved Boy poster
6.0

Drama exploring the story of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor, who died on a housing estate in South London in 2000. After leaving Nigeria to embark on a new life in the UK, the young Damilola and his family are full of optimism. Little do they realise that their lives are about to be shattered

Damilola, Our Loved Boy

2016

Rocks poster
6.6

15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.

Rocks

2020

Reopening Night poster
6.0

This documentary follows the cast, crew and staff of the world-famous Public Theater as they prepare to mount an all-black adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives,” at the open-air Delacorte Theater in New York City. Contending with the ever-present threat of COVID-19 and one of the rainiest Julys on record, the production marks the return of live theatre following more than a year of closures in the city.

Reopening Night

2021