Kenyah Sandy
Acting
Biography
Kenyah started training at four years old – primarily in dance with the Rain crew – and at the age of five joined the prestigious Zoonation. At seven years old he became a member of the award-winning company Boy Blue and still performs alongside them today. His acting career began on stage when he won his first role playing Young Simba in The Lion King in London’s West End. He has since performed in London theatres such as Sadlers Wells, the Barbican and Hampstead. Kenyah later transitioned to the screen, firstly in Forest Whitaker’s Jingle Jangle on Netflix before landing the lead role as Kingsley in Steve McQueen’s critically acclaimed Small Axe. Other credits include; Kieran in CBBC’s Jamie Johnson, The Man Who Fell To Earth (CBS), Highway To The Moon ( Short film ), Area Boys ( Short film)
Known For
An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.
Small Axe
An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Brace yourselves - the new kids are here. Five talented black scholarship students, and an elite private school with a reputation problem. One of them will have to change...
Boarders
Welcome to the Hawx United Academy, where young footballers’ dreams come true - or get crushed. As talented new hopefuls enter the Academy, who has what it takes to make it?
Jamie Johnson FC
An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a "real" career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie knows one thing for sure: he is going to be a sensation. Supported by his loving mom and his amazing friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Follows the experiences of young Black men whose lives have been abruptly snatched away. Micah is a young man who finds himself in the Inbetween, a mysterious realm between life and death, after his life is suddenly cut short. As he journeys through this liminal space, guided by a group of other young men, they confront what it means to be a Black boy in today’s society, weaving together a narrative of resilience and self-discovery, in order to ultimately empower each other to embrace empathy, mutual compassion and self-worth.
Highway to the Moon
A Black boy’s journey through an ineffectual public school system reveals the racial inequities built into everyday British life. Young Kingsley Smith (Kenyah Sandy) is a spirited aspiring astronaut with a love of drawing whose life is turned upside down when he is thrust into a new school for the “educationally subnormal”—a harrowing experience that gradually awakens his mother (Sharlene Whyte) to the institutional mistreatment of the children of West Indian immigrants. Shot on Super 16 mm to evoke BBC television dramas from the 1970s, the final Small Axe film concludes the pentalogy with a hopeful vision of the power of Black-led collective action.
Education
Two cousins smash a footbridge in South-East London and extort passersby for the privilege of crossing.
Area Boys
It's the summer and talented teenager Afeni Omolade is on the cusp of leaving home to take up an offer to study History of Art at Cambridge University. However, the life she has always known in Hackney suddenly comes under threat.