from to rwanda

nyt interview with sophie okonedo, british theater actress who is up for a supporting actress oscar tonight.

“embraced here as the new face of multicultural modern Britain: her mother is white and Jewish, and her estranged father, who left the family when she was 5, is Nigerian. She grew up in the projects, inside a notoriously rowdy and dangerous council estate (as the projects here are called).

GROWING up with a foot in two cultures – black and Jewish – was something she never overanalyzed. It was life, and she adapted when she needed to adapt. “It has certainly opened doors to the many colors of what it is to be human for me, what you need to get through life,” she said. “But all of us have different worlds we juggle – work world, family world.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/international/europe/26fprofile.html