Akindele Olufunke Ayotunde (wanda aka fi saninta da Funke Akindele ) yar wasan kwaikwayo ce kuma mai shirya fina- finan fim a Najeriya. Funke ta kasance cikin taurarun da suka yi fim din sitcom na wanda INeed to Know tun daga shekarar 1998 zuwa 2002, kuma a shekara ta 2009 ta sami lambar yabo ta Movie Movie Award don Mafi kyawun ressan wasan kwaikwayon. Tana taka rawa a wasan kwaikwayon Jenifa na Diary, wacce aka sanya mata suna Mafi shahararrun mata a cikin wasan kwaikwayo a Wajan Zabi na Zane- zanen Mafificin Tsarin Mawallafin Afirka na shekarar 2016. . An haifi Akindele ce a ranar 24 ga watan Agusta, 1977, a garin Ikorodu, jihar Legas, Najeriya. Funke itace na biyu a cikin yara uku a gurin mahaifiyarsu ('yan mata biyu da yaro guda). Mahaifiyar Akindele kwararriyar likita ce, yayin da mahaifinta tsohon Shugaban Makaranta ne da yayi ritaya. Funke ta sami yin karatun Diploma na kasa (OND) a Mass Communication daga tsohuwar makarantar Gwamnatin jihar Ogun Ogun State Polytechnic, yanzu Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Akindele ta shigo cikin rawar gani ne bayan da ta yi rawar gani a Asusun Kididdigar Jama'a na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya (United Nation Population Fund U.N.F.P.A) -Kungiyar da nake Bukata ta sani, wacce ta fara daga 1998 zuwa 2002.