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Faith Omole

actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ123049444
Source-derived summary

Faith Omole (born 1992) is a British actress and writer. Having appeared in several West End productions, Omole is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her role in Standing at the Sky's Edge. On television, she is known for her role in the Channel 4 sitcom We Are Lady Parts (2021–2024). Omole is also a playwright, having won the Alfred Fagon Award for her (unproduced) play, Kaleidoscope (2023). Her debut play, My Father's Fable, was staged at Bush Theatre in 2024.

Early life

Omole was born and raised in London to parents who were born in Nigeria. She spoke of her upbringing in an immigrant household: "You'd go to school and felt like you were someone else, then when you got home and were in a Nigerian home." Omole's brothers, Kenneth and John, are also actors.

Omole was introduced to the theatre world at school, where she enjoyed drama lessons. She later trained as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Career

As actress

Before debuting in the West End, Omole performed in a number of touring productions across various theatres in the UK. Notably, she was in the original cast of Chris Urch's The Rolling Stone, which premiered at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 2015, followed by performances in Leeds and London.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Faith Omole” is actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Faith, Omole and actress, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2021, 2024, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992. For this dossier, Faith, Omole and actress is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “actress” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123049444. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2021, 2024 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from Faith Omole” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.