Francesca Amewudah-Rivers

TV Actress

Birth Year 1998

Birthplace Brighton, England

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About

English actress, entertainer, artist, and performer who played the character Blessing in the BBC series Bad Education. In the year 2024, she starred opposite actor and performer Tom Holland in a West End production of Romeo and Juliet.

Before Fame

She studied Music at Oxford University.

Trivia

In the year 2022, she adapted a short film titled Medea. She appeared in stage productions at the Globe, National Youth Theatre, and Lyric Hammersmith. More than 800 artists published an open letter in The Guardian condemning the racial abuse she suffered following her casting announcement for Romeo and Juliet.

Family Life

She has a Ghanaian father and Nigerian mother.

Associated With

She acted alongside Jack Whitehall in Bad Education.