Owiso Odera

Biography

Owiso Odera was a Sudanese-born Kenyan actor born in Khartoum in March 1974 to a Kenyan mother and father from Sudan. He graduated from Earlham College with a scholarship in computer science before pursuing acting, earning a master's degree from the University of California, San Diego's graduate acting program in 2005. Notable roles include Orlando in "OJ: The Musical" (2013) and Papa Tunde in the TV series The Originals, for which he received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination in 2015.