Ayesha Antoine

By louisa.headsmccann@lyric.co.uk • May 18, 2021

Ayesha Antoine’s theatre credits include Blank at Donmar Warehouse, Irie Jones in White Teeth at the Kiln Theatre, Rosencrantz in the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s Hamlet and Connie in Red Velvet in the West End.

For television, her recent roles have included Dawn in Sky One comedy In the Long Run and Polly the Healer in the Netflix series Cursed, she is also well known for playing nurse Rachel Baptiste in Holby City and previously Dee Dee Blasco in Doctor Who, Judith in Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum and Molly in The Long Song on BBC.

Other TV includes Malory Towers, Pompidou, Skins, Mouth to Mouth and Poppy Silver in Grange Hill.

Film includes Disney’s Artemis Fowl.

Previous theatre credits also include: Life of Galileo and Trade (Young Vic), The Suicide (National Theatre), The Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle Theatre), Napoleon Disrobed (Told by an Idiot), Dirty Great Love Story at Arts Theatre, The Ghost Train (Royal Exchange/Told by An Idiot), We Are Proud to Present (Bush Theatre), Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep), Cinderella (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Mountaintop (Derby LIVE), Big White Fog (Almeida), Absurd Person Singular (Stephen Joseph Theatre) and My Wonderful Day (UK tour and off-Broadway).