The full list of 50 things that shaped Fisayo Akinade
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- OutKast
- Masterchef
- Central School of Speech and Drama
- My family
- Russell T Davies
- The Colour Purple (film)
- Failed relationships
- Meg
- Wynn Moran and Rob Faulkner
- Manchester
- Moving to London
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Contact Young Actors Company
- Chefs Table
- Yotam Ottolenghi
- Adam Head
- Eddie Murphy
- Robin Williams (specifically but not limited to his performance as the genie in Aladdin)
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Saturday night tv (Gladiators, Blind Date etc)
- The Long Halloween (Batman comic that started my comic book collection off)
- All About Love, bell hooks
- The Art of Loving
- Ocean Vuong
- Futurama
- All About Eve
- The Adam’s Family Values
- The Simpsons
- Richard Pryor
- Subspace
- Xavierian College
- Animorph books
- Nayyirah Waheed
- The Mass Effect Trilogy
- Final Fantasy 7
- Super Nintendo
- PlayStation
- Phoebe and Chandler from Friends
- Will and Grace
- Studio Ghibli
- Harry Potter
- Mowtown and Northern soul
- Paris is Burning
- Betty Davies
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Beyoncé
- Lucian Msamati
- Rejection
- Summer holidays with playscheme
