Cherrelle Skeete

Cherrelle Skeete is an actress, cultural producer, writer, director and co-founder of Blacktress UK. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Alongside her creative practice, Cherrelle is a passionate community builder. Through Blacktress UK, she creates spaces that support Black women and femme actors, while The Sage Club, a theatre club for Black elders, fosters intergenerational dialogue and helps preserve cultural heritage through theatre trips across London.

Theatre credits include: for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (The Yard Theatre); The Authenticator; Alterations; Three Days in the Country; The Amen Corner (National Theatre); Beneatha’s Place; Fun Home (Young Vic); The Fellowship; The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre); The 47th (Old Vic); The High Table - Winner of the Black British Theatre Award for Best Supporting Female Actor (Bush Theatre); King Hedley II (Theatre Royal Stratford East); A Small Place (Gate Theatre); The Seagull; Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); The Wind in the Willows (Royal & Derngate); And I; Silence (Finborough Theatre); and the original West End cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre).

Television credits include: Possession; Pierre; Slow Horses; Black Cake; The Midwich Cuckoos; Hanna; Silent Witness; Doctors; Danny and the Human Zoo; The Five; Ordinary Lies; Call the Midwife.

Film credits include: Magpie.