Sheila Atim Biography
A native of Uganda, Sheila Atim is a Ugandan-British composer, singer, playwright, and actress. She made her professional acting debut in 2013 at Shakespeare’s Globe in The Lightning Child, a musical she co-wrote with her acting teacher Ché Walker.
Sheila Atim Age
Atim is 31 years old as of 2022. She was born on 1 January 1991 in Uganda.
Sheila Atim Height
Atim stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches(1.68 m) and weighs 63 kg (138 lbs).
Sheila Atim Education
Atim attended the Coopers’ Company and Coborn School. She did some rare modeling as a teenager after being recruited when she shaved the side of her head for a school prom. She emerged in a 2009 London Fashion Week event, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk, managed by the British Fashion Council to showcase clothes for “real women”. She thereafter said that “modeling was never a big earner for me. I was unusual looking, so I couldn’t go for commercial castings.”
Sheila Atim Family
Atim was born in Uganda and grew up in Rainham. Her father is a dentist and when she was only five years old her mother left Uganda with her to seek refuge in the UK. Her father decided to stay behind and Atim no longer has a relationship with him. Having migrated to Essex, UK, her mother struggled and then began working in the health services.
Being one of the two black girls in Rainham, Essex, at that time, she had to face racism and ‘name calling’, while growing up. Any information regarding her siblings is publicly not available. We will update this section once the information is available.
Sheila Atim Husband
Atim has not gone public with her relationship, it is not publicly known whether she is married or in a relationship. Her partner’s information will be updated as soon as the information is available.
Sheila Atim Career
Atim went to King’s College London where she graduated with a degree in biomedical science and trained as an actor at the Weekend Arts Centre in Belsize Park, London. Sheila became involved in a workshop for a new play, The Lightning Child, which led to her being cast by her acting teacher Ché Walker for her professional acting debut at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2013. She starred in Keira (the physical embodiment of obsessive-compulsive disorder) in Ghost Town at the York Theatre Royal in early 2014.
She subsequently starred with Ako Mitchell in Walker’s two-hander Klook’s Last Stand, being praised by The Guardian for energetic performance and “tremendous stage presence” by The Daily Telegraph. In 2014, Atim appeared in Rachel at the Finborough Theatre. She later joined the touring production of Kate Tempest’s Hopelessly Devoted.
She is also known for playing three roles in Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions: the Attendant in The Jew of Malta, Julia in Love’s Sacrifice, and Assistant to Lady Politic Would-Be in Volpone. Walker’s The Etienne Sisters, which included songs composed by Atim, opened two days before the end of her run in Volpone.
Sheila Atim Game of Thrones
In 2019, Atim was named one of the casts’ of the Game of Thrones prequel series Bloodmoon. Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes broadcast over eight seasons. In the film, nine noble families wage war against each other in order to gain control over the mythical land of Westeros. Meanwhile, a force is rising after millenniums and threatens the existence of living men.
Sheila Atim Movies and Tv Shows
- Bruised 2020
- The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
- The Woman King 2022
- The Pale Horse 2020
- Pinocchio 2022
- The Underground Railroad 2021
- Sulphur And White 2019
- Julius Caesar 2017
- Henry IV
- The Show 2020
- Tempest
- The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy Since 2019
- Theatre Live: Les Blancs
- Unaired Game of Thrones Prequel Pilot
- The Irregulars 2021
- The Understudy
- Harlots 2017 – 2019
- National Theatre Collection: Les Blancs
- Everything Is Connected – George Eliot’s Life Royal B**tards: Rise of the Tudors Since 2021
- Meow or Never
- Julius Caesar from Donmar Kings Cross Since 2018
- Halcyon Heights 2016
- The Agreement
- The Bookshop
- Skin
- Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot & Miss Marple Twelfth Night