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At 24 years old, born and bred in London with a strong sense of her Nigerian heritage. Antonia was a Deputy Head girl at a Roman Catholic girls school where she finished with 11 GCSE grades A*-C. She took 4 A' levels in Pure mathematics and Statistics, Business Accounts, IT and Performing Arts. She graduated from the London South Bank University with a BA Hons in Accounting and Finance. She is very pro education and have since been to a number of schools encouraging young people to get educated and acquire skills.

Synopses of credits include playing a lead on the popular primetime Television prison Drama series 'Bad Girls'. The show has won numerous awards including a National Television Award for 'best drama' and has over 10million viewers in the UK (primetime ITV) and is shown in 56 countries around the world. Antonia plays the character of 'Darlene Cake' who has been officially voted favourite Bad Girl. She has enjoyed featured parts on television, feature films and an award winning short film RUF 992M. Shot at 35mm and shown at various film festivals including the Cannes film festival. She also featured in 'Rabbit Fever' a British Film due out later in the year.

An engaging performer capable of handling many diverse roles and genres with experience in principal, supporting and ensemble roles. In 2004, Antonia won the GAB award for 'best newcomer' and a Screen Nation Award for 'best emerging talent'. She will also be nominated at this year's EMMA awards. She has featured in numerous celebrity programmes this year including 'Strictly Come dancing' - Africa special on the BBC, 'Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver' on Channel 5, 'Celebrity Wrestling' on ITV, 'The Big Call' ITV and Elvis Mania for ITV.

She has also featured heavily in the national press, from a sentence review in the Guardian to double page centre spread articles in tabloids including the 'Daily Mirror', 'The Sun' Newspaper, 'Sunday Mirror', 'News of the world', 'Daily Star', 'the Voice' newspaper and 'New Nation'. Magazine feature coverage includes OK! Magazine, Heat magazine, Now magazine, Reveal, TV Times, TV Quick and many more!

Antonia has often appeared on shows as Loose Women, The Wright Stuff, Celebrity Weakest Link, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, The Sharon Osbourne Show, GMTV plus more...

Antonia's brother suffers from Sickle Cell and Antonia spends much of her time supporting the charities and raising awareness of the disorder.

Although her character Darlene is Jamaican her accent is not of a Jamaican; she is
in fact of Nigerian decent and has a plain English accent. The Jamaican
accent is not representative of Jamaicans.

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