It’s been a whirlwind few years for Toheeb Jimoh. Since the pandemic, the actor is regularly recognised on the street and on the tube – “even with my mask on and my hood up” – while football fans often serenade him with chants when he’s sitting in the stands enjoying a game. Two months ago he met President Joe Biden. He gives an incredulous laugh. “It’s crazy!”
While he recently appeared in Prime Video’s high-end drama The Power, people largely approach him thanks to another role – that of AFC Richmond’s big hearted and loveable midfielder Sam Obisanya in the hit Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso. “I knew Ted Lasso was special when we were filming it, but I didn’t know the world would receive it in the way it did,” he says.
