Kananu Kirimi

Kirimi was born in Nairobi, Kenya, of a Kenyan father and Scottish mother. She was educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire and then took a three-year course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.Kirimi's career developed as a classical actor in the theatre taking roles such as Viola in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Twelfth Night and in Adrian Noble's 2002 Pericles, Prince of Tyre. She received a commendation at the 2002 Ian Charleson Awards for her performance in Pericles. In 2004, she played Juliet in the Globe Theatre's first original pronunciation production.

Film credits include the 2006 film The Queen. In 2008, she starred as locum Dr. Joan Makori in the ITV1 drama series The Royal.