Toheeb Jimoh

Toheeb Jimoh was born in Brixton, London,^[3] South London,^[4] to parents of Nigerian descent.^[5] He moved to Nigeria as a toddler and returned to London when he was seven.^[5]

He attended The Norwood School^[6] before going on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2018.^[7]

Jimoh, in 2020, played Anthony Walker, the victim of a 2005 racist attack, in BBC One's Anthony,^[8] which imagines Walker's life if he had not been killed.^[9][10] His portrayal was called "utterly magnetic".^[11] He then portrayed Marcus in the Amazon series The Feed.^[12]

Jimoh was in a stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Sheffield Crucible^[11] and in 2020, was one of six performers in the Almeida Theatre's Christmas Play Nine Lessons and Carols, the theatre's first production post London's COVID-19 lockdown.^[13]

When Jimoh auditioned for Ted Lasso, the character of Sam Obisanya was written as Ghanaian, but his background was changed to Nigerian to match Jimoh's own.^[14][15] His performance has received praise, with his character called the "heartbeat" of the show.^[2]

Jimoh portrays another Nigerian character, journalist Tunde, in the Amazon thriller series The Power, based on Naomi Alderman's novel of the same name.^[16] He also has a small part in the Wes Anderson film The French Dispatch.^[10]

Jimoh played Romeo in a summer 2023 production of Romeo and Juliet at the Almeida Theatre in London.^[17]

In 2024, Jimoh played Hal in Player Kings, an adaption of Shakespeare's Henry IV part 1 and 2 by Robert Icke which also co-stars Ian McKellen and Richard Coyle.