Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah

Acting

Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah

Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah is an actress, writer and producer.

Acting credits

Crimson Peak poster
6.7

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Crimson Peak

2015

Awake poster
5.8

After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter. The question is, can Jill safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind.

Awake

2021

Maternal poster
NR

As a young daughter waits for acceptance to her dream arts program, her excitement turning to despondence as time goes on, her Caribbean mother must make a heart-wrenching decision to make sure her daughter escapes the cycle of poverty the two are caught in.

Maternal

2018

Sugar Daddy poster
6.4

When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.

Sugar Daddy

2021

DEFUND poster
NR

Starring in and directing their own razor-sharp script, the Toronto team of Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Araya Mengesha play twins trying to navigate their own, and each other's, complex responses to both the lockdown and the fight for racial justice during the long hot summer of 2020.

DEFUND

2021

Meatball poster
NR

Plot N/A.

Meatball

2025

Pigs poster
NR

A short film following one woman's fantasy during a catering shift from hell.

Pigs

2020

Body So Fluorescent poster
NR

Two friends have a falling out after a night of dancing.

Body So Fluorescent

2020

Really Happy Someday poster
NR

A rising musical theatre star struggles with his changing voice during his gender transition. With the help of a singing coach, he learns to trust himself, reclaim his career, and reconnect with the people he loves.

Really Happy Someday

2026

Save the Date poster
NR

A young gay millennial is forced to confront his complex feelings about his (sort of) ex when he finds himself invited to celebrate his ex’s engagement.

Save the Date

2022

Trashed poster
NR

With nowhere to go after a vicious homophobic attack, Jay finds their way to an abandoned house they once lived in as a teenager.

Trashed

BUNKER TIME! poster
NR

BUNKER TIME! is a nuclear nightmare years in the making: In the early 60s - the height of the Cold War - TV personality 'Auntie Pearle' wrote, directed and starred in a public-access show that aimed to prepare children for the nuclear apocalypse. Deemed too disturbing to air, the show was buried for years; only now, in even MORE disturbing times, is Bunker Time! fit to be unleashed on the public.

BUNKER TIME!

2025

Behind the camera