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Rochenda Sandall (1988- )

Rochenda Sandall is a British actress. She has been in the mini-series Small Axe (2020), the BBC series Line of Duty (2012) and the Netflix series Criminal: UK (2019) as  Detective Constable Vanessa Warren.

Early Life

Born of mixed-Jamaican descent, her father is white while her mother is mixed-race Jamaican. She is the eldest of three children. Sandall was raised in Grimsby, in North East Lincolnshire, England. In interviews, she mentions that her family was the only black family in the area. (3)

She attended RADA.

Professional Life Sandall worked in the National Theatre's Pomona and Coriolanus.

She also was a voice actress on BBC Radio 4's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

The actress has had TV roles in shows such as Coronation Street, Broken, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Love, Lies and Records. Her first major role was Lisa McQueen in the BBC Two series Line of Duty In Small Axe, she plays along with Letitia Wright and John Boyega about the Mangrove Nine. In the Guardian, she stated that it was the first1 time she has been cast in a part overtly about race. (1)

in 2014, she played First Citizen in Coriolanus, which starred Tom Hiddleston. (4) and

She also starred as Chesille Sabrond in the Star Wars series movie Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker.

Personal Life

Rochenda is in a long-term relationship with Game of Thrones actor Mark Stanley. (6)

Filmography (limited) Television Doctors (TV Series) PC Jenny Briggs 2013 Coronation Street (TV Series)  P.C. Sandford / D.C. Davies   2016 Broken (TV Series)    Jean Reid  2017 Criminal: UK (TV Series) Vanessa Warren  2019-2020

Film The Cocktail Waitress (Short) Rachel  2016 Instant Fix (Short)  A432   2017

Theatre Coriolanus First Citizen National Theatre 2014

1. Akbar, Ariga. Line of Duty's Rochenda Sandall: 'There are so many dimensions to domestic abuse' Guardian, Sep 8, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/08/line-of-duty-rochenda-sandall-talking-heads-small-axe

2. Jackson, James (May 4, 2019). What I've learnt: Rochenda Sandall. The Times. Archived from the original on May 6, 2020. "Actress Rochenda Sandall, 30, plays the villainous Lisa McQueen in the current series of Line of Duty. (...) Grimsby, where I was born, was a wonderful area to be brought up."

3. Wood, David (November 11, 2020) Rochenda Sandall on Small Axe, identity and black history: ‘We were the only people of colour for 20 miles’ https://inews.co.uk/culture/rochenda-sandall-small-axe-mangrove-steve-mcqueen-line-of-duty-756584

4. IMDC, Coriolanus, Full Cast https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3313066/fullcredits

5. Ojomu, Nola (June 30, 2020) DUTY CALLS Who is Rochenda Sandall and is she married? https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8720156/rochenda-sandall-line-of-duty-married/

6. International Movie Data Base. Rochenda Sandall Actress. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5878360/ accessed 2/6/2021