Gloria Onitiri

Gloria Onitiri is a British Nigerian Actor known for her starring role as Grace Jones in Sky Art’s Emmy award-winning series Urban Myths.

Her theatre credits include: Guardiano in Women Beware Women and Katherina in Taming Of The Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol and Nancy Colberg in Green Living (Old Vic Theatre), Yomi in Chiaroscuro (Bush Theatre), Celia in Napoli, Brooklyn (Park Theatre), Fates in Hadestown and as self in Wrong Songs For Christmas (National Theatre), Ida Arnold in Brighton Rock (National Tour), Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians (Birmingham Rep), Radio in Caroline, Or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre), Deadpan Delores in The Stripper (St. James Theatre), Francine/Lena in Clybourne Park (National Tour), Anne in Egusi Soup (National Tour), Spirit in The Tempest (Bath Theatre Royal), Bacchae in The Bacchae (National Theatre Scotland) and Arion in Amphibians (Offstage Theatre). Gloria also created the role of Josiana in The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic).

For the West End: Gloria was an original cast member of Avenue Q London (Noel Coward Theatre), Nala in The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre) and Rachel Marron alongside Heather Headley in the original London cast of The Bodyguard (Adelphi Theatre).

Television includes: Dotun in The Window (C4), Donna in Grass (BBC), Marcia Jones in Bad Girls (Shed), Bess in Porgy and Bess – Opera Shorts (BBC), Knightress in Splatalot (CBBC,ABC3,YTV), Joy Okotume in Doctors (BBC).

Film: Jackie in Resurrecting The Street Walker (Scala).