Toks Olagundoye: Biography, Age, Career, Family And Movies

Olatokunbo Susan Olasobunmi Abeke “Toks” Olagundoye (born 16 September 1975) is a Nigerian actress. She is known for her role as Hayley Shipton in Castle and Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the ABC TV sitcom The Neighbors.

Early life

Olatokunbo Susan Olasobunmi Abeke Olagundoye was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Norwegian mother and a Nigerian father. As a youth, she was educated in Nigeria, Switzerland, and England. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre from Smith College.

Career

Olagundoye made her screen debuts on both TV and the big screen in 2002; in an episode of the television series The Education of Max Bickford; and in the film Brown Sugar later that same year. She appeared opposite Ruby Dee in an off-Broadway production Saint Lucy’s Eyes in April 2001, and in 2005 she co-founded the theatre company Three Chicks Theatre, which produced Andrea Lepcio’s One Nation Under in 2008. Olagundoye has guest-starred on Ugly Betty, Law & Order, CSI: NY, Switched at Birth, NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Prime Suspect. Her film credits include A Beautiful Soul, Come Back to Me, Absolute Trust and The Salon.

In 2012 Olagundoye was cast as a series regular in the ABC comedy series The Neighbors, playing the part of Jackie Joyner-Kersee until the series was cancelled after two seasons in 2014. She later had starring roles in the two television pilots: Feed Me, opposite Mary-Louise Parker for NBC; and Amazon’s Salem Rogers, co-starring with Leslie Bibb. Olagundoye joined the cast of ABC comedy-drama Castle in 2015 as a series regular in the role of Hayley Shipton. In 2019 Olagundoye had a recurring role on the final season of Veep playing Senator Kemi Talbot.

Personal life

On May 16, 2015, Olagundoye married Sean Quinn, whom she met on Twitter, after several years of dating.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Brown Sugar	Sidney’s LA Assistant
2005	The Salon	Peaches
2009	Absolute Trust	Kelly
2010	Mom Squad	Mom	Short film
2010	Dorito-hibition!	Danielle	Short film
2011	Most Wanted	Operative Keel
2011	Come Back to Me	Seritou
2011	Life Begins at Rewirement	Nurse	Short film
2012	A Beautiful Soul	Theresa Whitaker
2012	Democracy at Work	Meghan Oliver
2018	The Death of Superman	Cat Grant (voice)	Direct-to-video
2018	Dog Days	Nina
2018	Tremors	Jessica Florence	Television film
2019	Reign of the Supermen	Cat Grant (voice)	Direct-to-video
2019	Steven Universe: The Movie	Nanefua Pizza (voice)	Television film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	The Education of Max Bickford	Hannah	Episode: “An Open Book”
2004	Law & Order	Janette Gardner	Episode: “C.O.D.”
2006	3 lbs	Mary	Episode: “Of Two Minds”
2008	Ugly Betty	Sales Girl	Episode: “Bad Amanda”
2010	Law & Order	Claire	Episode: “Blackmail”
2010	CSI: NY	Reporter	Episode: “Hide Sight”
2011	Switched at Birth	Cooking Class Teacher	Episode: “The Persistence of Memory”
2011	NCIS	Rebeka Hooper	Episode: “Safe Harbor”
2011	Prime Suspect	Lucy Martin	Episode: “Wednesday’s Child”
2012–2014	The Neighbors	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	44 episodes
2014–2019	Steven Universe	Nanefua (voice)	5 episodes
2015	The Fosters	Faith	Episodes: “More Than Words”, “Lucky”
2015–2016	Castle	Hayley Shipton	13 episodes
2016	Vixen	Mari’s Mother, News Reporter (voices)	2 episodes
2017–present	DuckTales	Mrs Beakley, Server (voices)
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy	Ja Kyee Lrurt (voice)	Episode: “Mr Roboto”
2017	The Gifted	Carla Jackson	Episode: “eXposed”
2018	Modern Family	Lucy	Episode: “CHiPs and Salsa”
2018	Dirty John		Episode: “Remember It Was Me”
2019	Carmen Sandiego	Countess Cleo, The Driver	Recurring voice role
2019	Veep	Kemi Talbot	5 episodes
2019	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	Julia	2 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Game of Thrones	Beskha	Voice
2017	Middle-earth: Shadow of War	Carnán	Voice