Thomas Antony Olajide
Thomas Antony Olajide, sometimes also credited as Thomas Olajide, is a Canadian actor from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is most noted for his performance in the 2021 film "Learn to Swim", for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, and as co-creator with Tawiah M'carthy and Stephen Jackman-Torkoff of "Black Boys", a theatrical show about Black Canadian LGBTQ+ identities which was staged by Buddies in Bad Times in 2016. Olajide, M'carthy, and Jackman-Torkoff were collectively nominated for Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the  Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2017. His other stage roles have included productions of William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" for The Dream in High Park; "King Lear", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Love's Labour's Lost" for the Stratford Festival; Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" for Canadian Stage; and Michel Nadeau's "And Slowly Beauty" for the Belfry Theatre and the National Arts Centre. In film he also starred in the short film "Mariner" and the feature film "White Lie". In television he had regular roles in the web series "Inhuman Condition" and "Nomades", and received a  Prix Gémeaux nomination for Best Actor in a Youth Digital Series in 2020 for "Nomades". He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, and of the Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre.