Actor

Shaniqua Okwok

January 1, 1997 · Surrey, England, UK

Shaniqua Okwok is a British actress. She is best known for her roles as Maia in Paramount+ series The Flatshare (2022) and Dominique in the Sky Max series Wolfe (2021). Okwok has also made appearances as Solly Babatunde in It's a Sin (2021), Patty in Small Axe, Lotta Nagel in Van der Valk, and Leah in War of the Worlds.

Okwok was born in Surrey to a Ugandan mother and a Jamaican father. She attended The BRIT School and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she graduated in 2018. After receiving the Laurence Olivier Bursary Award from the Official London Theatre in 2017, she went on to make her television debut on BBC One in 2018 as Helen Nedarson in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators.

Notable work

7.2
War of the Worlds (2019)
as Leah

Often works with

Delroy Brown
2 titles together
It's a Sin, The Flatshare
Nathalie Armin
2 titles together
The Flatshare, Maigret
Blake Harrison
2 titles together
Bookish, Maigret

Full filmography · 16

Maigret
as Janvier
2025
Bookish
as Linda Bruce
20256.2
The Flatshare
as Maia
20226.8
Wolfe
as Dominique
20215.6
It's a Sin
as Solly Babatunde
20217.9
Small Axe
as Patty
20206.8
Van der Valk
as Lotta Nagel
20206.5
War of the Worlds
as Leah
20197.2
Sick of It
as Waitress
20186.8
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
as Helen Nedarson
20187.2