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Akemnji Ndifornyen is a British actor, writer, composer and producer, known for the BBC series Leonardo as a young Niccolò Machiavelli, as well as appearing in the BBC soap opera Doctors as Nathan Bailey from 2004 to 2005.
Akemnji Ndifornyen is known for Black Ops (2023), Famalam (2018) and Dreaming Whilst Black (2023).
- Actor, Writer, Producer
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Akemnji Ndifornyen wins Breakthrough Talent for Famalam at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2019! The Breakthrough Talent Award is sponsored by Sara Putt Associates...
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- How Do You Feel About The Success of Famalam?
- Where Do You Get The Ideas For Sketches?
- What Can We Expect from The New Series of Famalam?
- What Was It Like Pitching Famalam For The First time?
- How Did You Get Started in Comedy?
- What Advice Would You Give Someone Looking to Work in TV?
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Great! I’m really proud of the actors. Some of them keep getting recognised and stopped in the street. I think we could do more to get the show out there. I want everyone to be watching Famalam and not just because series three is the best one yet!
As a team, we enjoy the bigger characters with catchphrases. We also like to look at topical stuff and flip it in a Famalam way. We’ll chat about anything that’s happened during the day and see if there’s something that we can make from that and we also do a lot of writing workshops, which always helps. I got the idea for one of the sketches from e...
It’s the best one yet! The others are great, but we’ve been lucky and it’s got better and better with each new series. We did the pilot in 2017 and it’s grown from there. This series has the best music and the best sketches. It’s the Trilogy Of Famalam. There hasn’t been a trilogy as good as this!
It was interesting, they came to me. Chris Sussman (former BBC Studios Executive Producer) came to me and said he wanted to produce something. Before that, I was working with Javone Prince on The Javone Prince Show as a writer. Javone has always been really supportive and was happy for me, he told me that it was my turn to help someone else like he...
I’ve been acting since I was 11, so I’ve had a lot of different roles as an actor, I sort of grew up in the business. It’s a big business and there are a lot of different things that you can do. I think of it like tennis courts, Film is like a grass court, TV’s clay and Theatre is a hard court. You can still play the same game, but you just play it...
There’s no conventional route. The industry is changing so fast, not just because of YouTube and the DIY ethic, but even the technology is everywhere. You can film on your phone and people won’t notice the difference. Don’t wait for someone to give you permission, just do it. Companies are buying shows from YouTubers based on viewing potential. Get...
Learn about Akemnji Ndifornyen, the writer, producer, actor and composer of Famalam, a comedy show on BBC iPlayer. Find out how he started in comedy, what inspired him and what to expect from the third series.
May 19, 2023 · Akemnji Ndifornyen is a writer, producer and actor who stars in BBC's Black Ops 2023, a thriller/comedy series about PCSOs. He talks about his role, his co-stars, his career and his love for comedy in this interview.
May 18, 2021 · Actor. Musician. Writer. BAFTA winner. Famalam star Akemnji Ndifornyen is one of the most talented creatives working in Britain today.
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