Taiwo Ajai-Lycett isan acclaimed international Actor with over 50 years of experience in film, stage and television.
Shemade her debut in 1967, at the UK’s Avant Garde, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London. She subsequently trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, City Literary Institute, The Dance Centre, and the Actors’ Studio, London.
Mrs. Ajai-Lycett’s credits include the BBC's “Some Mothers Do 'Av 'Em”; “Crown Court”, notable Nigerian TV productions, including “Winds Against My Soul” Africa Magic’s “Tinsel” and such stage productions such as Conor Cruise O’ Brien’s MURDEROUS ANGELS at the Gaiety Theatre in 1971 at Dublin Theatre Festival and the Ifeoma Fanfunwa’s HEARWORD! NAIJA WOMAN TALK TRUE, to name a few
Her film credits include: “A Warm December” starring, and directed by the first Black-American Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier; “Dazzling Mirage”, by Tunde Kelani, Rogers Ofime's “Oloibiri”, “Madame President” by Patrick Doyle and soon to be released “King of Boys 2 - the sequel” by Kemi Adetiba.
Mrs. Ajai-Lycett is an experienced Communications Consultant, an Educationist, Broadcaster, Author, Social Commentator, Columnist, and the recipient of several professional and national honours, including an OON (Officer of the Order of the Niger) in 2006; a Fellow of the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists (SONTA); and a Fellow of the University of the Third Age. (FUTA).