and some performances, lamented that "the stories of the hugely privileged queen and the stressed-out modern black Londoner never quite come together as strongly as the situation promises." Television, film, and music Atim played Viola and Sebastian in a film version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and won the Screen Nation 2019 Best Female Performance film award. In 2018 she portrayed Limehouse Nell in ITV's Harlots. Atim plays piano, violin, bass, and drums. She composed the score for the play Time Is Love at London's Finborough Theatre in 2019, the year that she was named one of the cast of the Game of Thrones prequel series Bloodmoon. The planned series was cancelled following the pilot episode. She appeared as an alleged witch in the 2020 BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse and in 2021 she appeared in the television series The Underground Railroad and The Irregulars and the film Bruised. In June 2019, Atim was named an MBE for her services to drama. She is also on the Board of Trustees of The Old Vic Theatre Trust. Credits Theatre Television Film Radio Awards and nominations Notes References External links Sheila Atim at Sue Terry Voices Sheila Atim performs Bob Dylan's 'Tight Connection to My Heart' on YouTube (The Old Vic) Vogue Meets: Sheila Atim on YouTube (British Vogue) Living people 1991 births 21st-century British dramatists and playwrights 21st-century English actresses Alumni of King's College London Black British actresses British musical theatre actresses Clarence Derwent Award winners Critics' Circle Theatre Award winners English stage actresses English women dramatists and playwrights Laurence Olivier Award winners Members of the Order of the British Empire People from Rainham, London Chopard Trophy for Female Revelation winners