Jola Olajide

Department:: Drama
Year of Graduation:: 2026-27

Photo by Yellowbelly

Height 5’3”
Eyes Dark Brown
Hair Black

Nationality British
Natural accent London (MLE)

Productions at Guildhall

Emily/Speaker in Chaos (dir. Amelia Sears)

Projects at Guildhall

Claudius/Horatio in Hamlet (dir. Patrick Niknejad)
Tiresias in Antigone (dir. Chris Kelham)
Arabella in I May Destroy You (dir. Amelia Sears)
Star in Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (dir. Lyndsey Turner)
Friend in She Would Have Loved This (dir. Nuria Legarda)
Mother Courage/Kattrin in Mother Courage and Her Children (dir. Chris Kelham/Eliot Shrimpton)
The Actress in Blue Room (dir. Matti Houghton)

Professional Experience

Temi in Grime Kids (dir. Abdou Cisse and Ian Aryeh) for BBC
Charlee in Hard Cell (dir. Catherine Tate and James Kayler) for Netflix/Leopard Pictures
Temi in The Power (dir. Reed Morano) for Amazon Studios/Sister Pictures

Other Experience

Identity School of Acting (2021-2022)
Pericles (dir. Emily Lim), National Theatre's Public Acts (2018)

Skills

Advanced singer (alto, professional experience)
Drama workshop leader (audition technique)
Dance (Afro, commercial)
Trained in stage combat and motion capture
UK driving licence (automatic)