Rayxia Ojo (Actor)

Training: Arts Educational Schools London.

Theatre includes: Icarus (Unicorn); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace); Carols at Wembley, Table, Spring Awakening, All’s Well That Ends Well, Bates Motel, Our Town, Stuff I Buried in a Small Town, Staying Alive (Arts Educational Schools London).  

Television includes: Call the Midwife.

Film includes: Love and Hate, London to Brighton, The Heat, Role Play.

Generation Arts would like to thank Rayxia for contributing to the Get Scene at Home 2020 portal 

When / how did you first get into acting? 

I always had an interest in acting/performing but I was painfully shy & was still carrying the hurt of not getting the role I wanted in a primary school production. I avoided anything to do with drama in secondary school then finally decided to try again in sixth form by studying BTEC performing arts.

 

What was your experience of training like?

Training taught me many life lessons. I had to mature in a space surrounded by people from a very different background than me. It taught me to be adaptable and self-disciplined.

 

What was your first significant acting job?

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child West End production

 

What has been your most rewarding job and why?

Playing Rose Granger-Weasley in HPCC London [Harry Potter]. I thought the role was out of my depths & forced me to level up, take risks & forced skills out of me that I never knew I was capable of.

 

What is the hardest aspect of being a professional actor?

It’s between coping with rejection & fighting industry bias/discrimination.

 

What advice do you wish you had taken as a young, aspiring actor?

Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself.

 

What advice do you have for young BAME actors?

Don’t shrink yourself to make others comfortable. Take up spaces you think you deserve to be in. Know your worth. Set your standards & never compromise them.