Freddie Annobil-Dodoo (aka Freddie Annobil) is a British actor. In 2001 Freddie won and was awarded the Barclays Theatre Awards (TMA) for ‘Best Actor In A Supporting Role’.
Born to Ghanaian parents in South London, Clapham, he grew up in East London, Isle of Dogs. It was at the early age of 14 that he was bitten by the acting bug after watching Eddie Murphy in ‘Beverly Hills Cop’.
Freddie soon developed an intense passion for acting and it was spotted by his then drama and English teachers, who got their departments to pay for Freddie to attend the Sylvia Young Theatre School on weekends/part-time for a year. He later got into Seltec College (now Lewisham College) to study drama (A level foundation) for two years. There, Freddie learned a lot from studying – Stanislavski, Brecht, and Shakespeare among others and got hooked on Stanislavski and ‘The Method’ acting technique. He wanted to further his training by going to ‘Drama School’ and landed auditions with some of the top schools in the UK but could not get funding.
At age 21, Freddie got his first exclusive acting agent and landed a role as a professional actor in a 3 person production with The Black Theatre Co-op – a Theatre In Education(TIE) play called “Just For Kicks” about drug awareness, which toured schools within the London Boroughs of the UK. Soon he broke into television and got his first major role in the BBC2 Drama Serial – ‘Holding On’, about life in the big city – London, the serial won a BAFTA for Best Drama Serial in 1998. Since then Freddie has worked on various productions in Television, Film, Radio, and Theatre.
His TV credits include roles in Casualty, Holby City, Down To Earth, As If, The Vice Series 2, Heat Of The Sun, Grange Hill, Come Rain Come Shine, Moving On, to name but a few. His theatre credits include: Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads at the National Theatre, When Brains Don’t Count at the Royal Court Theatre, Things Fall Apart with Collective Artistes Theatre.
Freddie continues to work, adding several TV and Film roles to his credits such as ‘Miracle Workers’ (season 2, 2020) a Sky Comedy and TBS Network series where he played ‘Gary’, ‘Undercover’ (season 2, 2020) an award-winning Belgium crime drama where he played (in season 2, ep3) ‘Daniel Akwane’ a Sudanese military soldier/hit man, season 2 is now being aired on Netflix. BBC’s Doctors – Rebooting (2022), where he played the main guest lead as ‘Anthony Sergent’.
