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Sophie Okonedo

Sophie Okonedo (born August 11, 1968, London, United Kingdom), aged 58, is an English actress and narrator (born 1968). Okonedo's honours include Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Sophie Okonedo’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Sophie Okonedo’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Sophie in the U.S.?

#55

US rank in 2025

~138,694

Americans share it since 1880

2011

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1968, Sophie came 1,155th, carried by 88 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Sophie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

7

Soul Urge · understanding

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Sophie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1968, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Sophie apart

Sophie Okonedo took the Theatre World Award in 2014, at 46.

The classrooms behind this chart: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

The working life starts in 1991, at 23.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Sophie Okonedo: Jews of African descent, People from Wembley and Actors from the London Borough of Brent.

Chris Hemsworth (1983) and Hulk Hogan (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Awards
Theatre World Award (2014) and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (2014)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
Working from
1991
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
34

What the chart says

Sophie, according to the stars

Core essence

Sophie is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Sophie is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Sophie wants to be loved

Sophie wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Sophie and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Sophie creates

How Sophie makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Sophie creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Sophie is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Sophie is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Sophie fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Sophie's birth date. Working below.

Where Sophie sits

Six lines

Sophie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Sophie

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sophie

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Sophie

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sophie

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Sophie

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sophie

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above London on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Rastaban, in Draco, 88.4° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.

From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 87% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.

How unusual Sophie's chart is

Chart pattern score

81 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Virgo · Yod onto Saturn · 3-planet stellium in Leo

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Sophie Okonedo's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 11, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Sophie Okonedo was born on August 11, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Sophie Okonedo's birth date, August 11, 1968, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Sophie’s chart

Sophie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.7° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.5° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.2° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.9° orbSun in Leo · 18°49′☉18°Moon in Pisces · 26°18′☽26°Mercury in Leo · 23°03′☿23°Venus in Virgo · 3°08′♀3°Mars in Leo · 3°43′♂3°Jupiter in Virgo · 10°17′♃10°Saturn in Aries · 25°32′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Virgo · 27°06′♅27°Neptune in Scorpio · 23°46′♆23°Pluto in Virgo · 21°27′♇21°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonoppositionUranus0.0° to 7.3° orb

    Sophie’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.7° orb

    Sophie’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn1.5° to 3.5° orb

    Sophie’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.7° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune4.5° to 5.4° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.6° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.6° to 7.7° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 1.3° to 13.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

Sophie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°49′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 4°05′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 14°39′ (moves 0.51° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 9°59′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Mars 0.4°
  • Chiron trine Mars 0.9°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 3.0°

Sophie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Sophie’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.8°

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Sophie’s cards

Computed from August 11, 1968. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sophie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q238864 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sophie Okonedo at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sophie Okonedo.

Quick answers about Sophie Okonedo’s chart

How old is Sophie Okonedo?
Sophie Okonedo is 58 years old, born August 11, 1968 in London, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Sophie Okonedo?
Sophie Okonedo is a Leo: born August 11, 1968, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Sophie Okonedo's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 11, 1968 birth.
What is Sophie Okonedo's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Sophie Okonedo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sophie Okonedo's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sophie Okonedo's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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