Weruche Opia

Weruche Opia

Born: April 11, 1987
in Nigeria
Reanne Weruche Opia (/wəˈruːtʃeɪ ˈoʊpiə/) (born April 11, 1987) is a British-Nigerian actress and entrepreneur. She is the founding CEO of the clothing line Jesus Junkie Clothing. She was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for her performance in the BBC miniseries I May Destroy You (2020).

Born in Lagos, Opia moved to South East London at the age of 13. Her father is an author and professor of social sciences and her mother is veteran Nigerian broadcaster and television host Ruth Benamaisia-Opia. Opia holds a degree in drama and sociology from the University of the West of England, Bristol.

After making her television debut with a guest appearance in a 2010 episode of The Bill, Opia spent a year with the Renegade Theatre Company in Nigeria. Upon returning to England in 2012, she appeared in the Channel 4 crime drama Top Boy and the Channel 5 procedural Suspects.

Opia gained prominence through her role as Cleopatra Ofoedo in the third series of the BBC comedy Bad Education and its 2015 spinoff film. Opia was nominated in 2015 in the Nollywood Actress of the Year category at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards for her role in the film When Love Happens. From 2019 to 2020, Opia was in the main cast of the Dave sitcom Sliced as Naomi.

Opia starred as Terry Pratchard in Michaela Coel's BBC series I May Destroy You, which first aired in June 2020. For her performance, Opia was nominated for a British Academy Television Award and won a Black Reel Award. In 2022, she appeared in the ITV thriller Our House.

Movies for Weruche Opia...

Title: Iwájú
Character: Otin (voice)
Released: February 28, 2024
Type: TV
Two friends in a futuristic Nigeria discover secrets and dangers hidden in their different worlds.
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Title: High Desert
Character: Carol
Released: May 16, 2023
Type: TV
Peggy Newman, a woman with a checkered past, makes the life-changing decision to become a private investigator following the death of her beloved mother, who she lived with in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California.
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Slumberland
Title: Slumberland
Character: Agent Green
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
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Title: Our House
Character: Merle
Released: March 7, 2022
Type: TV
Fi Lawson arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
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Title: I May Destroy You
Character: Terry Pratchard
Released: June 7, 2020
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Sliced
Character: Naomi
Released: May 15, 2019
Type: TV
Joshua and Ricky, two mates who are pizza delivery drivers in South London, just want to make some money, move out of their mums' and meet some women - is that too much to ask for? If only all the ridiculous stuff that keeps happening to them would stop getting in the way...
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Haircut
Title: Haircut
Character: Funmi
Released: January 3, 2019
Type: Movie
A middle-aged barber has to calm the situation when a desperate teenage drug dealer holds up the barbershop at gunpoint.
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Title: Dérè: An African Tale
Character: Dérè
Released: July 2, 2017
Type: TV
After experiencing a tragic loss, a woman must resist a new family dynamic that could control the future of her father's company and her life.
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Title: Genius
Character: Coretta Scott King
Released: April 25, 2017
Type: TV
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.
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Title: Just a Couple
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: TV
Just A Couple is about Mark and Shavon. They have a modern relationship, by which we mean they count each others Facebook likes, keep tabs on each others Instagram, and binge watch Netflix together.
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The Bad Education Movie
Title: The Bad Education Movie
Character: Cleopatra 'Cleo' Ofoedo
Released: August 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Mr Wickers and his class go on one final school trip after they finish their GCSEs.
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When Love Happens
Title: When Love Happens
Character: Mo
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Fed up with coordinating weddings for everyone else, unlucky-in-love event planner Mo turns to the internet to see if she can find her own Mr. Right.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Maz
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Actress
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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Title: The Jetty
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Detective Ember Manning has to work out how a fire at a holiday home connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit ‘love’ triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls.