Victoria Ekanoye

Adebisi Victoria M Ekanoye[2] (born 11 December 1981),[3] known professionally as Victoria Ekanoye is an English actress. She is known for playing Angie Appleton in the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street.[4] She has also played Rachel in The Royals,[5] and has appeared in The Chase: Celebrity Special,[6] The Big Quiz[7] and The X Factor: Celebrity.[8] She also appeared in series two of Almost Never[9] and two episodes of Doctors as Kate Bennett.[10] In 2022, she appeared in the fourth episode of Series 11 of the BBC crime drama series Death in Paradise, as Miranda Priestley.

Victoria Ekanoye
Born
Adebisi Victoria M Ekanoye

(1981-12-11) 11 December 1981
Bury, Greater Manchester, England[1]
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present
TelevisionThe Royals
Coronation Street
The X Factor: Celebrity
Almost Never
Children1

Personal life

Ekanoye has sickle cell anaemia. On 8 November 2021, Ekanoye announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.[11]

References
  1. ""My dream was to be Madonna" - Celebrity X Factor star Victoria Ekanoye on her love of music". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. "Adebisi Victoria M Ekanoye".
  3. "Adebisi Ekanoye".
  4. "Coronation Street star Victoria Ekanoye hints Angie Appleton could still return". Digital Spy. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  5. "Who is Victoria Ekanoye? The X Factor: Celebrity contestants". Radio Times. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  6. "The Chase Celebrity Special". What's on TV. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  7. "Emmerdale triumphs over Coronation Street in The Big Soap Quiz 2018". Digital Spy. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  8. "X Factor Celebrity reveals latest stars booted out of competition". Digital Spy. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  9. "Almost Never Christmas Wonderland". BBC. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  10. Writer: Stephen McAteer; Director: Daniel Wilson; Producer: Dawn Coulson-Beckett (10 November 2020). "Chronicle of Shak's Death Foretold". Doctors. BBC. BBC One.
  11. "Ex-Coronation Street star Victoria Ekanoye has breast cancer". BBC News. Retrieved 8 November 2021.


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