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Razaaq Adoti

Razaaq Adoti (born 27 June 1973) is a British actor, producer and screenwriter.

Adoti was born in Forest Gate, London, and is of Nigerian descent. He landed his first professional screen role on the British television show, Press Gang, playing a police officer. After a season with the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award with Aesop, A New Opera and playing the lead role of Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Adoti was accepted into the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he studied for three years and earned a degree in acting.

Adoti was cast as Yamba in Steven Spielberg's feature epic, Amistad alongside Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey. After completing Amistad, he returned to London where he worked on various television and film projects, including Paul McGuigan's Gangster No. 1, and Black Hawk Down, directed by Ridley Scott, in which he played the antagonist Yousuf Dahir Mo'alim. Since then, Adoti has starred in numerous productions including Paul W. S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Haven, Doom (based on the popular video game of the same name) and The Hard Corps. Adoti also starred as Dutch Maas in Bill Duke's 2008 film, Cover.

Adoti, through his Area Boyz production company, wrote the screenplay Sons of the Soil (formerly Area Boyz), which was filmed in England and Nigeria. He also served as host and co-producer of the Fox Soccer Channel television show titled Extra Time, which premiered in summer 2008.

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