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Sheila Atim
Sheila Atim MBE is a Ugandan-British actress, singer, composer, and playwright. She made her professional acting debut in 2014 at Shakespeare's Globe in The Lightning Child, a musical written by her acting teacher Ché Walker. Following critically acclaimed stage roles in the Donmar Warehouse's all-female Shakespeare Trilogy in 2016 among others, Atim won the 2018 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role as Marianne Laine in an original production of Girl from the North Country. She has composed songs for several productions and premiered her play Anguis at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She has also been cast in several television series, including the cancelled Game of Thrones successor series Bloodmoon, the BBC's The Pale Horse, and Amazon's The Underground Railroad, directed by Barry Jenkins. In 2021, she starred in Netflix's successful sports drama Bruised, directed and produced by Halle Berry. In 2022, she won another Laurence Olivier Award, this time for Best Lead Actress, for her performance in the play Constellations. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Atim) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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Traditional Benin Song (from "The Woman King")
Sheila Atim, Lashana Lynch, & Adrienne Warren
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Sheila Atim performs Bob Dylan's 'Tight Connection to My Heart' | GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
The Old Vic • 544K views
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Max Richter - All Human Beings (Slowed + reverb)
Urbanize • 239K views
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All Human Beings - Max Richter - Pt. 1-4 Continuous Instrumental Mix - From New Album 'Voices' 2020
Halcyon Classical • 50K views
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Max Richter - All Human Beings
Amygdala • 23K views
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All Human Beings
Ni Kusch • 1.3K views