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O.T. Fagbenle (also known as O-T and OT) is a British actor. He has appeared in several films, stage and television productions.

Born in London to a Nigerian father and a British mother, Fagbenle moved to Spain as a child and started learning the alto saxophone. Within a year he was playing for the South Coast Jazz Band and toured the Edinburgh Festival. He moved back to England where he continued to perform as a musician in big bands at the Wembley Arena and the Royal Albert Hall.

He started acting at the age of 14 for the Tiata Fahodzi African Theatre Company and was given the lead role in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, performing at international venues and at central London’s Bloomsbury Theatre. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated early to make his graduate debut at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 'Le Blanc’s in 2001.

Fagbenle continued his Shakespearean roles performing in Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio in a national tour culminating at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2004. Later that year, he was awarded the M.E.N. Theatre award for best actor in a leading role for his portrayal of Sidney Poitier's son in John Guare's award-winning play Six Degrees of Separation.

More recently, O-T Fagbenle portrayed Sean, an American television star who has an on-screen relationship with Stacey Dash, the self-obsessed Brianna in Amy Heckerling's I Could Never Be Your Woman. Fagbenle has also appeared in Academy award-winning director, Anthony Minghella's 2006 movie, Breaking and Entering with Jude Law and Juliette Binoche.

Fagbenle starred in a sitcom for the BBC called Grownups and the British TV series Agatha Christie's Marple.

For several months in 2004 he took the part of Kwame in the BBC World Service radio soap Westway.

He has also been honoured by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (of which Queen Elizabeth II is patron) by being included in the '100 faces of RADA' along with Sir Anthony Hopkins, Clive Owen and Sir John Gielgud.

In October 2006, Fagbenle was greeted with critical acclaim for his performance in Trevor Nunn's Tony Award–winning world premiere of Porgy and Bess The Musical. Following Cab Calloway in the opera and Sammy Davis Jr. in the feature film, O-T Fagbenle played the infamous role of Sportin' Life, at the Savoy Theatre in the West End of London.

Along with a starring actor credit, O-T Fagbenle composed the music and penned the lyrics for several songs for the NBC drama Quarterlife, created by Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick

In 2008, after development work in Paris with world-renowned theatre director Peter Brook, O-T starred in two dramas for the BBC, including the role of Walter Tull in Walter's War, a biopic of the first mixed-heritage officer in the British Army. In 2008 Fagbenle authored an article which appeared in a double page spread in the national Nigerian newspaper The Guardian about the life and times of Walter Tull.

O-T is currently shooting a lead in a brand new BBC flagship show 'Material Girl' starring Dervla Kirwan (Doctor Who) and Lenora Crichlow(Being Human, Sugar Rush)

In 2008 O-T was the recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award at the 13th African film Awards formerly referred to as the Afro Hollywood Awards.

Selected filmography

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