(written from a Production point of view)
Oyin Oladejo (born 23 September 1985; age 38) is an actress who plays Operations officer Joann Owosekun on Star Trek: Discovery. She also played the mirror universe Joann Owosekun in the first and third season episodes "What's Past Is Prologue", "Terra Firma, Part 1" and "Terra Firma, Part 2".
She was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, then raised in Lagos, and moved to Toronto, Canada at the age of sixteen. She originally aspired to become a lawyer, but discovered her passion for acting while working as a ticket seller for the Toronto Opera Company. She graduated with a degree in theater from the Humber College in Toronto and also studied acting at the Soul Pepper Academy.
Since 2013, Oladejo has appeared in numerous stage productions in Toronto, including Marat/Sade, A Doll's House, Hamlet, and The Cherry Orchand. In 2017, she appeared in the short film Pond (with Craig Henry), which was her first screen acting credit, soon followed by being cast in Discovery.
Concurrent with her work in Discovery, Oladejo co-starred in the first season of the Canadian science fiction series Endlings (with Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves in a guest role), and appeared in an episode of the second season. Her upcoming credits include the Canadian western Six Guns for Hire (with Patrick Kwok-Choon and Nck Name) and the starring role in the independent drama Orah.
Star Trek appearances[]
- DIS:
- "Context Is for Kings" (Season 1)
- "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"
- "Choose Your Pain"
- "Lethe"
- "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
- "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
- "Into the Forest I Go"
- "Despite Yourself"
- "What's Past Is Prologue" (also as Joann Owosekun (mirror))
- "The War Without, The War Within"
- "Will You Take My Hand?"
- "Brother" (Season 2)
- "New Eden"
- "Point of Light"
- "An Obol for Charon"
- "Saints of Imperfection"
- "The Sound of Thunder"
- "Light and Shadows"
- "If Memory Serves"
- "Project Daedalus"
- "The Red Angel"
- "Perpetual Infinity"
- "Through the Valley of Shadows"
- "Such Sweet Sorrow"
- "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"
- "Far From Home" (Season 3)
- "People of Earth"
- "Forget Me Not"
- "Die Trying"
- "Scavengers"
- "Unification III"
- "The Sanctuary"
- "Terra Firma, Part 1" (also as Joann Owosekun (mirror))
- "Terra Firma, Part 2" (also as Joann Owosekun (mirror))
- "Su'Kal"
- "There Is A Tide..."
- "That Hope Is You, Part 2"
- "Kobayashi Maru" (Season 4)
- "Anomaly (DIS)"
- "Stormy Weather"
- "All In"
- "Rubicon"
- "The Galactic Barrier"
- "Species Ten-C"
- "Coming Home"