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Toks Olagundoye (born 16 September 1975; age 49) is an actress who voiced Captain Amina Ramsey in the Star Trek: Lower Decks first season episode "Much Ado About Boimler" and the third season episode "The Stars At Night".

She was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and a Norwegian mother. She was educated in Nigeria, Switzerland, and England, and received a BA diploma in theatre at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

She is best known for her role as Hayley Shipton in the eighth season of the crime series Castle (2015-16), alongside Penny Johnson and co-produced by Rob Bowman, and her co-starring role as Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the science fiction sitcom The Neighbors (2014-15).

She made her television debut in 2002 in an episode of The Education of Max Bickford and her film debut in the same year in the romantic comedy Brown Sugar. During her career she mostly appeared in television projects, including guest roles on series such as Ugly Betty (with Tony Plana and Vanessa Williams, directed by John Putch), Law & Order, CSI: NY (with Robert Joy and John Larroquette), NCIS(with Shohreh Aghdashloo, directed by Terrence O'Hara), The Fosters (with Bruce Davison), Modern Family, Dirty John (starring Eric Bana), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (with Gabrielle Ruiz), and Shameless (with Dennis Cockrum).

She co-starred in the 2018 failed television pilot Tremors (an intended reboot of the horror classic with the same name), and had a recurring role in five episodes of the political sitcom Veep the next year, alongside Gary Cole, Patton Oswalt, Diedrich Bader, Sam Richardson, and Sufe M. Bradshaw. In 2021, she had a recurring role in six episode of the crime series The Rookie (with Jon Jon Briones and Greg Grunberg) and in five episodes of the Disney+ sports comedy series Big Shot (with Amy Pietz, Van Epperson, and Lamont D. Thompson).

She is also an accomplished voice actress who lent her voice to numerous animated series and video games, including Guardians of the Galaxy (with Kevin Michael Richardson and David Sobolov), Seth MacFarlane's American Dad! (with Patrick Stewart, Scott Grimes, Dee Bradley Baker, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Diedrich Bader), Adventure Time: Distant Lands (with Bill Hader, Tom Kenny, and Maurice LaMarche), Carmen Sandiego (with Dawnn Lewis and Kari Wahlgren), Arcane: League of Legends (with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Fred Tatasciore, and Robin Atkin Downes), Castlevania (with James Callis, Malcolm McDowell, and Titus Welliver), the 2017 reboot of DuckTales (with Danny Pudi, Jennifer Hale, and Kari Wahlgren), and Steven Universe. She reprised the latter role in 2019's Steven Universe: The Movie.

Also in 2019, she lent her voice to two DC Comics animated films, Reign of the Supermen and The Death and Return of Superman. Both projects featured the voice of Jerry O'Connell, Rebecca Romijn, Rainn Wilson, Paul Eiding, Tony Todd, and Jennifer Hale.

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