Aayan Ibikunle Shoderu

Westerfield Oreoluwa Ibikunle Shoderu was born in 1997 in Redbridge, London and is of Nigerian descent.^[1][2] He appeared in various stage productions including Zero for the Young Dudes (2017), Lil Miss Lady (2018), The Burial at Thebes (2020), UK Drill Project (2022) and Macbeth (2023), the latter of which was with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, of which he graduated in 2023.^[3][4]

After graduating, he went on to appear in an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty as Tom Barnes.^[5] The same year, he appeared in the short film Area Boy as Bradley.^[6][7] In 2024, he appeared as Olu in the short film Tribal Mark as Olu, and wrote, directed and starred in a stage production of Camp Drill with The Mountains Group.^[8][9] In July 2025, Shoderu joined the cast of the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Tobias "Okie" Okyere.^[10] The character is introduced as a drug dealer enlisted by Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara), subsequently becomes involved with Harry Mitchell (Elijah Holloway) and turning Kojo Asare (Dayo Koleosho)'s flat into a drug house.^[11][12]