Adele James (born 20 March 1995) is a British actress and screenwriter. She plays Tina Mollett in the TV series, ''Casualty''. In 2023, James starred in the Netflix

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, ''Queen Cleopatra''.

Life

James became interested in acting in high school. Her father is Jamaican and her mother is English. James studied at the

Richmond upon Thames College Richmond upon Thames College is a large college of further and higher education located on a single site in Twickenham. It provides education and training to 16- to 18-year-olds and adults from across the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames a ...

and the

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...

. In 2018, she was the screenwriter of the short film, ''Last Call''. She plays Tina Mollett in the TV series, ''Casualty''. In 2023, she was given the starring role as

Cleopatra Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (; The name Cleopatra is pronounced , or sometimes in both British and American English, see and respectively. Her name was pronounced in the Greek dialect of Egypt (see Koine Greek phonology). She was ...

in the second installment of Netflix's

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, ''Queen Cleopatra''. Her casting faced controversy surrounding the Cleopatra race controversy.

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* Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British actresses Black British actresses English people of Jamaican descent British television actresses Alumni of Richmond upon Thames College Alumni of the University of Bristol 21st-century British screenwriters British women television writers 21st-century British women writers Black British women writers Black British writers 1995 births {{UK-screen-actor-stub