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Clare-Hope Ashitey

Highest Rated: 92% Children of Men (2006)

Lowest Rated: 9% I.T. (2016)

Birthday: Feb 12, 1987

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Birthplace: Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK

Blowing audiences away with her acclaimed performance in "Children of Men" (2006), Clare-Hope Ashitey brought a certain amount of personal experience to her role. Born to Ghanaian immigrants in Einfield, England, Ashitey used her background to better understand the emotional life of her character, Kee-who was an immigrant herself. Ashitey even used a Ghanaian lullaby taught to her by her parents for a scene in which Kee sings her baby to sleep. Ashitey filmed her breakout performance during her gap year between high school and college. Having trained at Centre Stage School of Performing Arts, Southgate as a youngster, Ashitey was new to the world of professional acting, and had no trouble backing away from it after the production wrapped in order to attend SOAS, University of London. She returned to acting in 2009, co-starring in a production of "Origin of the Species" at the Arcola in London. Soon, she was back on screen, co-starring in the drama "Black Brown White" (2011) and the ensemble film "Candle to Water" (2012). She joined the cast of the popular British TV series "Suspects" (Channel 5, 2014-) in 2014 and "Doctor Foster" (BBC, 2015-) in 2015, but eventually, Ashitey decided to make the leap across the Atlantic, joining the cast of the American series "Shots Fired" (Fox, 2017-) in 2017.

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Highest rated movies

92% 85% Children of Men
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85% 85% Shooting Dogs
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73% 58% The White King Watchlist
64% 36% Jimi: All Is by My Side
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33% 50% Confession Watchlist 9% 25% I.T. Watchlist
Candle to Water
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Exodus
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Filmography

Movies

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33% 50% Confession Willow (Character) - 2021
73% 58% The White King Gaby (Voice) - 2016
9% 25% I.T. Joan (Character) - 2016
64% 36% Jimi: All Is by My Side Lithofayne "Faye" Pridgeon (Character) $323.0K 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Candle to Water Shona (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Exodus Zipporah (Character) - 2007
92% 85% Children of Men Kee (Character) $35.3M 2006
85% 85% Shooting Dogs Marie (Character) $38.3K 2005

TV

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73% 80% Funny Woman Diane (Character) 2022
No Score Yet 45% Riviera Ellen Swann (Character) 2020
90% 64% Doctor Who Rakaya (Character) 2020
No Score Yet 85% Death in Paradise Alesha Williams (Character) 2020
92% 88% Criminal: UK Adele Addo (Character) 2019
78% 84% Seven Seconds KJ Harper (Character) 2018
86% 78% Doctor Foster Carly (Character) 2015 2017
84% 95% Shots Fired Kerry Beck (Character) 2017