He won Best Male Comedy Performance at the 2024 Royal Television Society Programme Awards Animashaun was born into a Nigerian family in Whitechapel in London.
[6][7] Other stage roles have included "Master Harold"...and the Boys, Athol Fugard's drama set in apartheid South Africa, one of the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella at the Lyric Hammersmith, The Producers at the Manchester Royal Exchange, the original production of the Barber Shop Chronicles, Rufus Norris's staging of The Threepenny Opera at the National and Michael Longhurst's revival of Amadeus.
Their performances were hailed as "hilarious Runyonesque theatre-enthusiast gangsters"[10] Animashaun appeared as Loial in the Amazon Prime Video series The Wheel of Time beginning in 2021.
He stars in the 2023 BBC One comedy television series Black Ops, alongside Gbemisola Ikumelo and Akemnji Ndifornyen, playing an undercover policeman woefully out of his depth.
[13][14] In March 2024, Animashaun was nominated in the Male performance in a comedy programme category at the 2024 British Academy Television Awards.