Sheila Atim’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Actress, singer, composer, and former model
Is Actor
Stage actor
From Uganda
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender female
Birth

1992, Uganda, Uganda

Age 29 years

Sheila Atim is an actress, singer, composer, and former model. She won the 2018 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role as Marianne in the original production of Girl from the North Country.

Life and career

Sheila Atim was born in Uganda before coming to the UK at the age of five months, and grew up in Rainham, London. She did some occasional modelling as a teenager, having been scouted after she shaved her hair off for a school prom.

Atim graduated in biomedical science at King’s College London and then trained at Wac Arts, Belsize Park, London. She got involved in a workshop for a new play, The Lightning Child, which led to her professional acting debut, cast by her acting teacher Che Walker.

She played Marianne Laine in the original run of Girl from the North Country at The Old Vic in London from 8 July to 7 October 2017. Following the success of The Old Vic production, it transferred into London’s West End at the Noël Coward Theatre from 29 December 2017 for a limited 12-week run until 24 March 2018. For this role, she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Play at the 18th WhatsOnStage awards and won the Olivier award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical.

In 2018 she portrayed Limehouse Nell in ITV’s Harlots, and played Emilia opposite Mark Rylance’s Iago in Othello at the Globe, where according to The Independent newspaper, “she unleashed a fury that blew the greatest actor of his generation off the stage.”

She composed the score for the play Time Is Love at London’s Finborough Theatre in 2019,, the year that she was named as one of the cast of the Game of Thrones prequel series Bloodmoon. The planned series was cancelled following the pilot episode.

Also in 2019, Atim took her first written play, Anguis, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

She appeared as an alleged witch in the 2020 BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse and was cast in The Underground Railroad.

In June 2019 Atim was awarded an MBE for services to drama and she is a member of The Old Vic Theatre Trust Board of Trustees. She plays piano, violin, bass and drums.

Awards

  • The Most Promising Newcomer Award, The Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2017(shared with John McCrea) for her role in Girl from the North Country.
  • 2018 Clarence Derwent Award (the awards honour best supporting actors in London productions) for her parts in the Donmar Warehouse’s all- female production of The Tempest and the National Theatre’s production of Les Blancs.
  • 2018 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role as Marianne in Girl from the North Country.
  • Screen Nation 2019 Best Female Performance in Film for playing Viola and Sebastian in Twelfth Night.
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