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Bayo Akinfemi

Actor at AFIN

Film director · Actor · Screenwriter

  • 1nomination
  • 1credit
  • 2025at AFIN

Biography

Bayo Akinfemi is an actor, director and college professor. He was born and raised in Ilesa, Osun State in Nigeria. He obtained a B.A. in performing arts from the University of Ilorin in Nigeria where he began his career as an actor and director before immigrating to Canada and then the United States. He studied film and television production at the Toronto Film School and went on to earn an M.A.

Born in Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria.

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Selected filmography beyond AFIN

Primarily credited in acting across their wider career, per TMDB.

  • Bob Hearts Abishola posterBob Hearts Abishola Goodwin · Director22m per episode2019

    A love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while recovering from a heart attack and sets his sights on winning her over.

  • Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. posterMarvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nathi Zuma2013

    Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

  • Heartland posterHeartland Stephen45m per episode2007

    Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?

  • This Is Wonderland posterThis Is Wonderland 44m per episode2004

    Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.

  • Mayday posterMayday Air Traffic Controller46m per episode2003

    Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

  • Bulletproof Monk posterBulletproof Monk Shade1h 44m2003

    A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.

  • The Tuxedo posterThe Tuxedo SWAT CSA Op1h 39m2002

    Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo.

  • Human Cargo Moses2h per episode

    Human Cargo is a 2004 Canadian television miniseries. The series won seven Gemini Awards and two Directors Guild of Canada Awards. It premiered on CBC Television on January 4, 2004 and starred Kate Nelligan, Cara Pifko, and Nicholas Campbell. The series was written by Linda Svendsen and Brian McKeown.

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