Bakray joined the RADA Youth Company and registered for Theatre Peckham’s Original Actor Training course. British actor and playwright Bukky Bakray was born in 2002. She is well-known for her ground-breaking debut performance in the coming-of-age drama Rocks from 2019.
She received the BAFTA Rising Star Award at the age of 19, making her one of the youngest actresses to be nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2021.
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Bakray was raised on an estate in Lower Clapton not far from where Rocks was set. He was born to Christian Nigerian parents in Hackney, East London. She has a South African-born sister and three brothers. Both Cardinal Pole Catholic School and Clapton Girls’ Academy were where she studied.
Bakray joined the RADA Youth Company and registered for Theatre Peckham’s Original Actor Training course.
Bakray was born into a household of Christians. She was raised by her Nigerian parents on a Lower Clapton estate. She is one of her parents’ five children. She grew up with a sister and three brothers. Due to her 8–8 employment, her mother used to put in twelve hours every day.