# Tunji Kasim

Adetunji "Tunji" Kasim is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Joe Bailey in Nearly Famous (on E4), Hugo Scott, an art teacher in Shetland, and Ned Nickerson in The CW's Nancy Drew.
In 2009, he was nominated for an Ian Charleson Awards drama award for Julius Caesar (with the RSC).

## Early life and education

He was born in Aberdeen, but moved to Nigeria soon after birth. He lived there until he was 12, and then the family moved back to Aberdeen and spent his teenage years in Kincorth. His mother is Scottish, a primary school teacher raised on a farm in Auchenblae and his father is Nigerian, a research fellow and lecturer at Aberdeen University, having previously studied there for his PhD in economics.
His first thoughts of a career were of being a boxer or a dishwasher. He then studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, which is now called Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

## Filmography
### Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Theatre |
| 2006 | Inferno | Chorus | Andy Arnold | The Arches |
| 2006 | Mazepa | Chorus | Peter Stein | Edinburgh Festival Theatre |
| 2006 | The Talented Mr Ripley | Reddington | Acorn Theatre Company | Aberdeen |
| 2006 | Of Mice and Men | Crooks | Martin McNaughton | Òran Mór |
| 2007 | Big White Fog | The Masons' radicalised son | Michael Attenborough | Almeida theatre |
| 2007 - 2008 | The Brothers Size | Oshoosi | Bijan Sheibani | Young Vic theatre |
| 2008 | The Cracks in my Skin | Linden | Chris Meads | Royal Exchange, Manchester |
| 2009 | The Winter’s Tale | Florizel | David Farr | Courtyard Theatre |
| 2009 | Julius Caesar | Romulus, Lucius | Lucy Bailey | Courtyard Theatre |
| 2009 | The Grain Store | Arsei Pechoritsa | Michael Boyd | Courtyard Theatre |
| 2010 | King Lear | Edmund | David Farr | Courtyard Theatre |
| 2010 | Antony and Cleopatra | Mardian | Michael Boyd | Courtyard Theatre |
| 2011 | American Trade | Pharus | Jamie Lloyd | Hampstead Theatre |
| 2012 | The Duchess of Malfi | Delio | Jamie Lloyd | The Old Vic |
| 2012 | But I Could Only Whisper | Marvin | Nadia Latif | Arcola Theatre |
| 2014 | Orlando | Chorus | Max Webster | Royal Exchange, Manchester |
| 2014 | The Christmas Truce | Brisker/Franz Roper | Erica Whyman | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
| 2014 - 2015 | Love's Labour's Lost | Dumaine | Christopher Luscombe | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
| 2014 - 2015 | Much Ado About Nothing | Claudio | Christopher Luscombe | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
| 2016 | Les Blancs | Eric | Yaël Farber | National Theatre |
| 2016 | Love's Labour's Lost | Dumaine | Christopher Luscombe | Chichester Festival Theatre/Manchester Opera House/Theatre Royal, Haymarket |
| 2016 | Much Ado About Nothing | Claudio | Christopher Luscombe | Chichester Festival Theatre/Manchester Opera House/Theatre Royal, Haymarket |
| 2017 | Network | Frank Hackett | Ivo Van Hove | Royal National Theatre |
| 2018 - 2019 | Antony and Cleopatra | Caesar | Simon Godwin | Royal National Theatre |

### Film

| Year | Film | Role |
| 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Private Smith |
| 2019 | The Kill Team | Sergeant Wallace |
| 2019 | The Good Liar | Michael |

### Television

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 2007 | Nearly Famous | Joe Bailey | Main role |
| 2013 | Rubenesque | Clyde | Telefilm |
| 2014 | Shetland | Hugo Scott | Episodes: Raven Black: Part 1 & Raven Black: Part 2 |
| 2019 | Cold Feet | Zack Aspin | Season 8, episode 4 |
| 2019 - 2023 | Nancy Drew | Ned "Nick" Nickerson | Main role |
| 2020 | Avenue 5 | Lighting Tech | Episode: He's Only There to Stop His Skeleton from Falling Over |
| 2023 | Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story | Adolphus IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 4 episodes |