Acting credits
12
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Olisa Odele
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.4
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Movies: 4Series: 9Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 1835574
IMDb ID: nm1797209
Known for: Acting
Born: November 14, 1994
Age: 31
Place of birth: Lewisham, London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1999 - 2025
Years active: 27
Average TMDB rating: 6.9
Wikidata: Q7086958
Other jobs
Actor's Assistant (1)
Biography
Olisa Odele is an English actor. He played Yemi on all three series of Channel 4 coming-of-age comedy drama series Big Boys (2022-2025). As a child actor, he previously appeared in forty episodes of My Parents are Aliens (2004-2005). His early television appearances included forty episodes of My Parents are Aliens. He played Ola in Michaela Coel's series Chewing Gum on E4. He also appeared in It’s a Sin. In 2019, he appeared in BBC One comedy series Scarborough. He had a main role as Yemi in all three series of Jack Rooke created Channel 4 coming-of-age comedy drama series Big Boys, with his performance described as "regally characteristic". He played Peter in 2024 British comedy series Dead Hot which aired on Amazon Prime Video. He appeared on stage as Isom in the British National Theatre tour of comedy stage play The Hot Wing King in 2024. In February 2025, he could be seen in both series of Daisy May Cooper comedy drama series Am I Being Unreasonable? on BBC One.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Olisa Odele.
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Olisa Odele.
7.8
Dead Hot
as Peter • 6 eps
2024 Series
7.5
Big Boys
as Yemi • 18 eps
2022 Series
6.8
Starstruck
as Damien • 1 eps
2021 Series
7.9
It's a Sin
as Cassius Chukwu • 1 eps
2021 Series
Down from London
as Robin • 1 eps
2019 Series
6.6
Sick of It
as Olly • 1 eps
2018 Series
6.4
Black Earth Rising
Actor's Assistant • 8 eps
2018 Series
7.1
Chewing Gum
as Ola • 8 eps
2015 Series
6.6
My Parents Are Aliens
as C.J. • 40 eps
1999 Series