While appearing on a third BBC series, Death in Paradise, Evans-Akingbola was cast in the popular HBO series Game of Thrones as the (unnamed) second wife of Khal Moro during series 6. Her first acting credits were for the BBC series Youngers and Holby City. Careerīefore acting professionally, Evans-Akingbola worked as a model. She received acting training at the National Youth Theatre and Identity School of Acting. She was raised in Bermondsey with her sister while educated in Dulwich. Early lifeĮvans-Akingbola was born in London, to an English anthropologist mother, Dr Gillian Evans, and Nigerian musician father Sola Akingbola (of the band Jamiroquai). She played Maddie Bishop in the Freeform series Siren. He and his wife have an arrangement where Danny can play Striking Vipers X and have virtual sex with Karl on his birthday, whilst Theo can go out to a bar and meet up with a stranger.Fola Evans-Akingbola ( / ˈ ɑː k iː n ˈ b oʊ l ɑː/) (born 26 September 1994) is a British actress. In the final scene, it is Danny's birthday. She is frustrated in the car ride home as Danny is silent. The next day, Theo picks up Danny from the police station. A passing police car notices the pair and arrests them. As Danny says what they are doing must stop, Karl becomes angry and the pair fight.
Danny asks to meet up in real life they kiss in their normal bodies to see if there is any connection between them, but both of them say they feel nothing. The pair enter the game and have sex again. When Theo leaves the room, Karl describes how he has tried to have sex in the game with the automated characters and with other players he says nothing can recreate the feeling of having sex in the game with Danny. Seven months later, it is Danny's birthday and Theo invites Karl for dinner as a surprise. Karl denies that it is cheating but Danny says that they both know it is not right. Karl continues to message Danny until he finally accepts a phone call, saying that the pair's activities in the game need to stop. Later that night, he locks the Striking Vipers X game in a cabinet.
On the pair's wedding anniversary, which Danny had forgotten, Theo takes him to dinner and talks to him about the newfound distance in their relationship, asking him if there is anything going on. Theo notices a change in her relationship with Danny as he stops wanting to have sex with her, despite their plan to conceive another child. Over the next few weeks, Danny and Karl have sex with each other in the game as the characters Lance and Roxette. After a few seconds, Danny pulls away and exits the game. After the game, Karl and Danny's characters fall onto each other and the pair kiss. Danny feels real pain as his character is hurt, though his injuries immediately disappear at the end of the round. Danny gets accustomed to his new body of Lance and the pair play Round 1 of the game, in which Karl uses his character's special powers against Danny. As they enter the game, they fall back motionless on their couches. The pair play the game-Karl chooses the character Roxette (Pom Klementieff) while Danny plays as Lance (Ludi Lin). Karl arrives at the party and gives him a birthday present: Striking Vipers X along with the virtual reality disc needed to play the game. He has fallen out of contact with Karl, who is in a relationship with a woman called Mariella (Fola Evans-Akingbola). Eleven years later, Danny hosts a barbecue at his house with his now wife Theo, with whom he has a 3-year-old child. After they have sex, he plays the fighting game Striking Vipers with his friend Karl (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Twenty-seven-year-old Danny Parker (Anthony Mackie) and his girlfriend Theo (Nicole Beharie) go to a bar and pretend to be strangers. Striking Vipers is the first episode of Season 5's Black Mirror.