Safia Oakley-Green
Acting
Biography
Safia Grace Oakley-Green (born June 2001) is an English actress. She won a British Independent Film Award and a Scottish BAFTA for her performance in the horror film Out of Darkness (2022). She was named a 2023 Screen International Star of Tomorrow Oakley-Green was born in Southwark, London before moving to Derbyshire. She trained at the Television Workshop in Nottingham. As of 2023, she was studying psychology at university. In 2021, she appeared in the horror short film Requiem alongside fellow Television Workshop alumna Bella Ramsey. The short picked up increased attention after Ramsey's performance in the HBO television series The Last of Us raised her profile. Oakley-Green made her feature film debut in the 2021 biopic The Colour Room for Sky Cinema alongside Phoebe Dynevor. She made her television debut as Cinderella Jackson in the 2022 BBC One crime drama Sherwood. Also in 2022, she starred in the Scottish caveman horror Out of Darkness, previously entitled The Origin, for which she received the British Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performance in December 2022. She later also given the best film actress award by BAFTA Scotland for the role. In 2023, Oakley-Green had a recurring role as Andy in the first series of Disney+ comedy Extraordinary. She has roles in the second series of The Lazarus Project on Sky Max and the Paramount+ series The Burning Girls.
Known For
When her tranquil life on a remote island is shattered by the return of her vengeful former captain, a skilled ex-pirate must confront her bloody past and unleash her deadly talents to save her family from a ruthless siege.
The Bluff
Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.
Sherwood
In a world where everyone develops a power on their 18th birthday, Jen didn't. She's turning 25 and is still waiting to get hers. Adrift in a big, confusing world and armed with nothing but a bit of hope and a lot of desperation, Jen begins her journey to find her maybe-superpower. But in doing so, she might discover the joy of being just kind of ok.
Extraordinary
George wakes up to find himself several months in the past before being recruited for the Lazarus Project – a secret organization that turns back time when the world is at threat of extinction.
The Lazarus Project
Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.
Anemone
Follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
The Burning Girls
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
She Said
When a charming house guest arrives at a remote castle, the delicate dynamic between a neglectful husband, his innocent bride Cherry and their devoted maid Hero is thrown into chaos.
100 Nights of Hero
Adapts the smash hit John le Carré novel "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" while also drawing on material from his 2017 novel "A Legacy of Spies." George Smiley pursues Soviet spymaster Karla during the Cold War. The story opens at the Berlin Wall where Alec Leamas witnesses East German guards kill his final agent.
Legacy of Spies
In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical, being is hunting them down, the clan are forced to confront a danger they never envisaged.
Out of Darkness
A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff rises to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
The Colour Room
Requiem is set in 1605, against the backdrop of the witch trials. It's a coming of age story, following Evelyn as she engages in a game of cat and mouse against her father, Minister Gilbert, in order to be with Mary, the woman she loves.
Requiem
Satana is Angelica's new flatmate. Tensions arise.
Flatmates
Tearaway Frankie breaks out his best friend Taylor for one final night out. Over a riotous few hours filled with laughter, heartbreak and some home truths, the boys will face the ultimate test.