Layo-Christina Akinlude

Acting

Layo-Christina Akinlude

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

The Beautiful Game poster
6.3

A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.

The Beautiful Game

2024

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

Falling into Place poster
6.6

Kira and Ian – both in their mid-30s – meet on a winter weekend on the Isle of Skye. Both are on the run – from their past as well as from the reality of their current lives. The 36 hours they spend together are characterized by fun and lightness. A deep, almost magical connection develops between the two strangers. Everything seems possible. But fate tears them apart again. They both return to London, unaware that they live in the same city. Often only a few minutes, meters and coincidences apart, Kira and Ian move through the pulsating city; they never meet. They first have to face their demons before they are ready to really meet.

Falling into Place

2023

Danny Boy poster
6.8

Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.

Danny Boy

2021

Jobless poster
NR

Sixteen-year-old twins Tai and Kenny dream of independence (and cash) in Milton Keynes.

Jobless

2023

Series credits

Death in Paradise poster
7.4

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

Death in Paradise

2011

The Crown poster
8.2

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

The Crown

2016

A Discovery of Witches poster
7.8

Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

A Discovery of Witches

2018

KAOS poster
7.3

As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind.

KAOS

2024

The Stolen Girl poster
6.3

Mother of two, Elisa, allows her daughter, Lucia, to go on an impromptu sleepover with her new best friend Josephine after meeting Josephine's mother, Rebecca, at her beautiful home. But when Elisa arrives to collect Lucia the next day, the house turns out to be an empty luxury rental and Lucia has been abducted.

The Stolen Girl

2025

This Is Going to Hurt poster
7.6

The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.

This Is Going to Hurt

2022

I May Destroy You poster
7.2

Set in London, where gratification is only an app away, the story centers on Arabella, a carefree, self-assured Londoner with a group of great friends, a boyfriend in Italy, and a burgeoning writing career. But when her drink is spiked, she must question and rebuild every element of her life.

I May Destroy You

2020

Grime Kids poster
NR

East London, 2001. Tired of being nobodies, five friends start a UK garage crew, dreaming of fame. Can they find their voice in the birth of a music revolution?

Grime Kids

2023