Bolaji Badejo

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-08-23 (39 years old)

Deathday

1992-12-22

Place of Birth

Nigeria

Bolaji Badejo

Biography

Bolaji Badejo was a Nigerian design student who portrayed the eponymous Alien in the 1979 film Alien. Alien was Badejo's only acting appearance. As a child, Badejo had been diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia. Several months after his 39th birthday, Bolaji fell ill and was taken to St. Stephen Hospital in Ebute Metta, Lagos, where he died on December 22, 1992 of complications from the disease. While at a bar in early 1977, Bolaji Badejo was approached by Alien casting director Peter Archer, who was scouting for someone suitably tall and thin to play the eponymous Alien. Ivor Powell, the film's associate producer, explained that "The person t...

Acting

1979

Alien

as Alien

2003

The Beast Within: Making Alien

as (archive footage)

2025

Alien, Terror in Space

as Self (archive footage)

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